When Joachim Rønning stepped in to direct “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” the sequel to Angelina Jolie’s “Maleficent,” he quickly learned that the story of Aurora and her godmother was ...

Joachim Rønning’s life path was set the day his family got a video camera. “I decided when I was 10 years old that I wanted to be a filmmaker,” says the now 47-year-old director of ...

“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” director Joachim Rønning and his team discuss the inspiration for Maleficent's dark fey world, and how backstory informed their designs ...

Director Joaquim Rønning has a “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie under his belt ... Nevertheless, there’s hard-to-resist heart in the Maleficent-Aurora connection, ...

The trailer for "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" sees the character refusing to allow Aurora to marry her love. Disney. In an interview with Indiewire, director Joachim Rønning said he saw Ingirth ...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is the sequel to the 2014 hit origin story of Sleeping Beauty's baddie. Portrayed by Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning returned as the Sleeping Beauty, princess Aurora ...

Aurora is now Queen of the Moors, the mistitled name of a mystical and mountainous fairyland, and she and ... and Rønning orchestrates the fight beautifully.

The art of making sequels demands a fine balance between revisiting an existing world and giving the audience something new to chew on. For Disney’s “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” costume ...

The studio got close in 2017 with Leto. Now it will be in the hands of Rønning, who early on broke into Hollywood co-directing with Espen Sandberg Kon-Tiki, the 2013 film that was nominated for ...

Watch a video interview with 'Young Woman and the Sea' director Joachim Rønning about his cinematic influences for Deadline's series 'The Film That Lit My Fuse' ...