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  • Rachel Bilson, Hayden Christensen Welcome Daughter

    Rachel Bilson and her longtime boyfriend Hayden Christensen have welcomed their first child, a daughter named Briar Rose.

    “Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson welcome their daughter Briar Rose Christensen born on October 29, 2014,” the couple’s reps said in a statement. “Both mother and baby are healthy and doing well. They are asking for privacy and subscribe to the No Kids Policy.”

    The No Kids Policy refers to “a celebrity coalition to protect children of celebrities from being photographed without consent,” according to CBS News.

    The Hart of Dixie actress and the Star Wars actor gave their daughter a name fit for a princess. In fact, the name Briar Rose was the nickname that the fairies gave Princess Aurora in the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty.

    The couple first met when they were co-starring in the film Jumper in 2008. They became engaged in December of that year, but briefly split in 2010. Luckily, they reconciled three months later.

    Before finding out that she was pregnant, Bilson revealed to Health Magazine that she had always wanted to be a mom.

    “To start a family would be good, any year in the next few years,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to be a mom. I have always wanted kids. I can just see this little toddler waddling around the house.”

    Congratulations to the happy couple!

  • Maleficent Opens To Lukewarm Reviews

    Maleficent Opens To Lukewarm Reviews

    How and why do villains go bad? Were they born evil or did some horrific tragedy occur to make them vengeful? The new Disney film Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie as the titular character attempts to answer those questions.

    The movie is said to be extremely CGI-heavy. Andrew O’Hehir from salon.com described the look of the film, “As a visual combination of Walt Disney, James Cameron, Arthur Rackham and Sir John Tenniel, Maleficent is one of the most remarkable spectacles of the CGI age, and one of the few recent 3-D movies where it’s probably worth paying extra for those damn glasses.”

    Here’s the full synopsis:

    A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well.

    The premise for the origins film is a sound one, however, movie critics have not been too kind to Maleficent, which opened today in theaters nationwide. The film is currently averaging a 49 percent rating on RottenTomatoes.com.

    The general buzz regarding Jolie has been mostly positive. It never hurts to have one of the biggest movie stars in the world playing such an iconic Disney role. The film also features Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora.

    Despite tepid reviews, Box Office Mojo is predicting that the film will have a very strong opening weekend, even though it has some tough competition. Also opening today is Seth McFarlane’s farce A Million Ways to Die in the West and it’s only the second weekend in release for X-Men: Days of Future Past.

    Do you plan to see Maleficent this weekend?

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  • Angelina Jolie: New ‘Maleficent’ Trailer Released

    Angelina Jolie flies in a new trailer touting her upcoming film Maleficent. The Disney drama is set to hit theaters in May, and also stars Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora. A new take on Sleeping Beauty, Jolie tells the fairy tale from the wicked witch’s point of view. It tells the story of why she casts the evil spell on Princess Aurora.

    The film’s newest trailer features a clip where Jolie and Fanning’s characters are in the forest talking.

    “All the other fairies fly, why don’t you?” Aurora (Elle Fanning) asks Maleficent. “I had wings once, they were strong,” the villainess replies as the clip cuts to Jolie flying. “But they were stolen from me. There is evil in this world. Hatred and revenge.”

    “Is it true? Are you Maleficent?” Sleeping Beauty says with fear in her eyes as Jolie’s character touches an evil finger to her lips.

    Angelina Jolie recently talked about the physically challenging scenes required in order to pull off her role. She even agreed to do yoga, but she didn’t like it.

    “She made me do yoga,” she said of her longtime stunt coordinator Eunice Huthart. “And I have no patience for yoga. It’s not something I do easily, because I’m not a still person. But I was forced to do yoga because [to fly] you have to have your core strength to be able to hold yourself.”

    As with every role Angelina Jolie plays, her role in Maleficent is no doubt polished to perfection. The mom of six is known for doing everything to the very best of her abilities and those abilities seem to only increase with time.

    Will you be checking out Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning in Maleficent when it hits theaters in May? Do you think the film will be a bit too frightening for young children?

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  • Maleficent’s Wings Showcased in New Trailer

    If the world heard about a movie containing an evil, dark fairy, castles, armies, magical forest creatures, and even a dragon, all of geekdom would potentially explode with sheer excitement. Luckily for all of those fantasy fans, that movie is soon to hit theaters, albeit from a studio most would not believe.

    Disney’s Maleficent is scheduled to hit theaters on May 30, and, if the new trailer is any indication of the epicness of said movie, the wait may be too much to handle.

    We all know the original story of Maleficent as portrayed by the 1959 Disney classic, Sleeping Beauty.The “Mistress of All Evil” shows up for the christening of the king’s daughter, Aurora, and expresses her displeasure of not being invited by cursing Aurora to prick her finger on a spinning wheel after he 16th birthday and die.

    What we don’t learn in the original Disney classic, however, is why Maleficent is so upset. Surely the lack of an invitation to a christening is not enough to cause one to want to kill a child? Also, why is Maleficent the only fairy in the movie to not have wings?

    In a trailer released today, audiences learn that Maleficent did indeed once have wings – that is, until they were stolen from her. Why they were stolen is not answered in the trailer, but one could make a properly educated guess that the source of removal is a main motivating factor for Maleficent’s actions.

    While the scenes of Maleficent flying are visually breathtaking, filming them was no easy task, according to Jolie: “You’re almost like a puppet with all these people moving (beneath you). When you go to the left or the right all of you have to move together. It’s a big dance with a lot of people.”

    Actually flying may have been a difficult feat to achieve, but Jolie hated the preparation to get to that point even more: “She [Jolie’s trainer] made me do yoga. And I have no patience for yoga. It’s not something I do easily, because I’m not a still person. But I was forced to do yoga because (to fly) you have to have your core strength to be able to hold yourself.”

    Despite the difficulty to make the new vision of Maleficent come to life, Jolie believes the pay-off will be more than worthwhile:

    “She has a darkness. And how do you make a film about someone who curses a baby and make them relatable? It’s like the worst thing you could possibly do! But I think the script that Linda [Woolverton (‘The Lion King’)] wrote, has quite a deep understanding… The exercise wasn’t how can we have fun with a villain? It was: what turns people evil and vile and aggressive and cruel. What could have possibly happened to her that would get her to that moment in the christening? She wasn’t invited, so she’s pissed off?”

    Maleficent, coming to theaters May 30, seeks to answer these 55-year-old questions and more.

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  • ‘Maleficent’ Shows Angelina Jolie in Terrifying Role

    Maleficent, a new film starring Angelina Jolie, won’t hit theaters until May of 2014, but it’s creating quite a buzz four months shy of its premiere. Part of the talk is about how positively terrifying Jolie is in her role as the Mistress of All Evil. The live action reboot of Disney’s 1959 version of Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent also stars Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora, the object of Jolie’s evil.

    The new trailer features Angelina Jolie appearing on scene following Princess Aurora’s receipt of the gift of beauty from a fairy.

    “I, too, shall bestow a gift upon the child,” she tells the king. Instead of a gift, however, she bestows a curse upon Princess Aurora.

    Maleficent is the story of Sleeping Beauty told from the point of view of the “wicked witch.” It helps explain why the villainess has such a wicked heart.

    Some parents are no doubt wondering since seeing this new trailer if Maleficent is appropriate for for viewing by small children. Jolie truly is terrifying–enough so to give adults–let alone small children–horrible nightmares after seeing a whole film’s worth of her horrifying faces and antics on the big screen.

    Elle Fanning, on the other hand, is exquisitely beautiful and filled with sweetness as she tries to coax the real story of her miserable life from Maleficent

    “You’ve been watching over me my whole life. I know you’re there,” she says to Angelina Jolie’s character. “Your shadow, it’s been following me ever since I was small. Don’t be afraid.”

    “I am not afraid,” Jolie says to her.

    Angelina Jolie might not be afraid, but fans seeing this film might be. Do you think this is the kind of Sleeping Beauty tale you’d take your little girl to see? It seems far more like a horror flick than a princess movie.

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  • Holly Madison Is No Sleeping Beauty, Say Trolls

    Former Playboy Bunny (and ex-girlfriend of perpetual Playboy Hugh Hefner) Holly Madison dressed up like Princess Aurora–otherwise known as Sleeping Beauty–for Disneyland’s Mickey’s Halloween Party recently, and the web has something to say about it.

    It’s unclear whether commenters think the costume was inappropriate because Madison is pregnant, or because a Bunny shouldn’t sully the good name of a Disney princess, but either way the comment forum got a little wild on E!online.com.

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  • Angelina Jolie As “Maleficent”: Scary Beautiful

    If you’ve ever seen Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty”, you probably remember just how terrifying–and awesome–Maleficent was. She was the epitome of evil, a woman who was almost part snake who could slither into your subconscious and cast a spell. She had a stone for a heart and set her sights on one thing: to make her enemies pay dearly.

    Something about her always fascinated me. I’m not sure if it was the incredibly weird, dark, dramatic headdress she wore, or her yellow eyes, or both. I found her wholly terrifying and yet intriguing at the same time; I guess I’ve always had a thing for the dark side. It began with Darth Vader, what can I say?

    At any rate, Maleficent was one of those characters I always wanted to know more about. And, much like Geoffrey Maguire did with “Wicked: The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West”, Disney has set out to re-imagine their original story by giving us a biography on the villain. “Maleficent” stars Angelina Jolie in the title role and will be unleashed in March of 2014. And judging by the photo of her in costume that’s been leaked, it’ll be a feast for the eyes if nothing else.

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    Jolie already had those cheekbones, so the makeup is just icing. But she nails the rest of it, as well, and I dare say she’ll dig up the attitude to go with the aesthetics. The film also stars Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora, but the story will focus on the early life of the sorceress rather than the drowsy damsel. What made Maleficent so damned evil? And what’s her thing with spindles?