Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

"To Walt Disney, "Mary Poppins" was more than a book. To her, it was more than a movie."

Directed by John Lee Hancock
Produced by Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer
Screenplay by Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
Starring: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Colin Farrell
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography: John Schwartzman
Edited by Mark Livolsi
Production company: Walt Disney Pictures, BBC Films, Essential Media Entertainment, Ruby Films, Hopscotch Features
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release date: November 29, 2013 (UK & Ireland)
Running time: 125 minutes
Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States

"Saving Mr. Banks" is a biopic comedy drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. One day Walt Disney gave a promise to his daughter that he would make a film based on her favourite book - "Mary Poppins" by P.L. Travers. But he didn't even suppose that idea would take twenty years. Disney had been confronted by many difficulties with the screen version before in 1961 a hard-edged author arrived in Los Angeles from Great Britain. However, problems didn't end -  P.L. Travers inserted lots of amendments, the business magnate wasn't able to do anything. It seemed like that screen version would stay just a dream.

Maleficent (2014)

"Evil has a beginning"

Directed by Robert Stromberg
Produced by Joe Roth
Screenplay by Linda Woolverton
Based on  Disney's Sleeping Beauty, "La Belle au bois dormant" of Charles Perrault
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Lesley Manville
Narrated by Janet McTeer
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography: Dean Semler
Editing by Chris Lebenzon, Richard Pearson

Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures
Release date: May 28, 2014(United Kingdom)
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States

"Maleficent" is an action adventure family film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton. It's a re-imagining of Walt Disney's 1959 animated film "Sleeping Beauty" but it portrays the story from the perspective of the witch, Maleficent. Once upon a time a young potent fairy living in the Moors meets a human boy, Stefan. As they grow older, they begin to fall in love, however the young man's love for Maleficent is eclipsed by his ambition to become a king. Because of his wish Stefan betrays the fairy taking away her main value, therefore she changes into an evil enchantress. But who is Maleficent in fact: a hero or a villain?