I know I haven’t updated for ages, but I hope you can forgive me when you see the surprise coming up

The Walt Disney Company announced on Monday that Maleficent, the studio’s live action retelling of Sleeping Beauty, will be released in Spring 2014. The film has been a passion project for Angelina Jolie, who will star as the title character.

USA Today reports that Disney will release the film on March 14, 2014. It will tell the Sleeping Beauty tale from the villain’s perspective. Disney first adapted the classic story in its 1959 animated film.

Maleficent is the evil sorcerer who cast the spell on Princess Aurora, a role that has yet to be cast. Last month, when it was reported that production on the film would begin overseas this June, Super 8 star Elle Fanning had been in talks to play the role. Another key role yet to be cast is Prince Phillip, who destroys Maleficent in the end to save Aurora. It should also be fun to see who plays the three good fairies.

According to People, the film will be the directorial debut for production designer Robert Stromberg. He is a two-time Oscar winner, awarded for his work on Avatar and Alice in Wonderland.

Maleficent has been a project Jolie has wanted to make for a long time. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, she talked about the role, noting that the film is still in its very early stages. When asked if she will look anything like the character in the 1959 film, Jolie said, “We’re still figuring out the look. We’re experimenting with different things. But the horns are the horns — you can’t deny them. You have to have horns.” She also said that her kids are “very happy” that she is doing the film.

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Following a long casting search that spanned the globe, “Super 8″ star Elle Fanning and “Enter the Void” thesp Olly Alexander are in negotiations to topline “God Help the Girl,” a Glasgow-set musical written and directed by Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of Belle and Sebastian.Barry Mendel is producing through his Barry Mendel Prods. banner. Carole Sheridan of Glasgow-based Singer Films is also producing with Chris Curling and Phil Robertson of London-based Zephyr Films.

Project began in late 2003 when Murdoch started writing a few songs that had a ‘girl group’ sound. The songs led to the concept album “God Help the Girl,” which was released in 2009 as a precursor to the film. Catherine Ireton sang the ‘part’ of Eve, the pic’s main character, who has yet to be cast.

Alexander will play James, a cynical guitarist who accompanies Eve’s singing and becomes a mentor to Cass (Fanning), an American teen who tags alongside the duo as she learns to play the guitar

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Well done Elle! I hope Elle sings in this

Joel Courtney‏@Joel_CourtneyJust a heads-up to @emilymcclements and everyone: ElleFanning doesn’t have a twitter account. All accounts are posers.

Officially comfirmed by Elle’s Super 8 co-star and friend.

EXCLUSIVE: As Dakota Fanning emerged as a top young actress in films like Man On Fire and War Of The Worlds, and Elle Fanning began doing the same in films like Super 8 and We Bought A Zoo, the girls had always been represented by Cindy Osbrink, whose Osbrink Talent Agency specializes in pint-sized talent. The Fannings have decided to take a step toward adulthood (Dakota turns 17 next month, and Elle will turn 14 in April), and they have decided to leave Osbrink. They will soon take meetings with the major agencies and decide the next move. The Fannings continue to be repped by JJ Harris’s One Talent Management.The move comes as Dakota Fanning finishes up the Twilight Saga series with Breaking Dawn Part 2, and just wrapped the Ol Parker-directed Now Is Good and the title role in Effie, the Emma Thompson-scripted film that was directed by Richard Laxton. Both of those films were shot in London. As for Elle Fanning, she is starring in the Sally Potter-directed Bomb.

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Good luck girls! We are all sure you will make the right decision!

On January 7th, Elle and the rest of the cast did a talk session at the Areo Theatre. I have found some videos of the talk! Elle is so adorable! I’m still looking around for pictures and will add them tomorrow; along which screencaps. Enjoy!!!

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Moving the action to Southern California and filling out the eccentric cast with Thomas Haden Church, Colin Ford, Elle Fanning and especially 7-year-old Maggie Elizabeth Jones are all good moves on Crowe’s part. After launching his career with instant classics like “Almost Famous” and “Jerry McGuire,” it’s nice to see him evolving from rock ’n’ roll and sports frenzy into more family-friendly terrain without losing a step.

As with “War Horse,” you go into “We Bought a Zoo” knowing you’re going to get your emotions worked. But you come out of it feeling like the tears, and more than a few laughs, were earned honestly —and were happily given on your part.

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2) Elle Fanning in Super 8, made up as a zombie for her role in a friend’s amateur movie, shambling in comic slow motion toward her lovestruck classmate (played by Joel Courtney) as he, and we, waited to see whether they were headed for a first kiss. The uncanny thespian gifts of Fanning’s character are a recurring thread in Super 8, and all I can say is, J.J. Abrams certainly cast the right actor. As she’s been proving since age 4 (when she memorably played Jeff Bridges’ tiny, grief-stricken daughter in The Door in the Floor), Elle Fanning is one of those rare performers who can find things in the material that even the director might not have known were there.

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This has appeared on Elle’s Wikipedia:

Elle began her singing debut with Phoebe In Wonderland and The Nutcracker, Elle had received high hopes that she is a better singer than her older sister as she would make her official debut of singing with a Elijah-produced song of “Who Am I”, which is set to appear in a upcoming soundtrack of the ABC sitcom, PA Living and is also set to star in a film adaptation of the upcoming novel In A Perfect World which she is set to star as Monday Roberts on an early 2014 release, along with Elijah Ramsingh, Fyniss Frazier, Julianne Nicholson, Oded Fehr and Madison Pettis, including country pop singer Taylor Swift, Omar Epps, Annie Ilonzeh, Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson.

It would be great if all of this was true, but I’m not sure. It looks pretty random and Wiki can be changed by anyone. I googled “PA Living” and “A Perfect World” and can’t find anything about them but fingerscrossed!

From a curious article I have found, it might be possible Elle might play Judy Jetson in The Jetson’s movie which is based on Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the same name from the early 1960′s! How cool is that!

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