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Jun 2, 2014 · On Friday, Woolverton’s latest collaboration with Disney, Maleficent, opened in cinemas. The film follows the antagonist of the studio’s 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, an embittered fairy who once trusted humans, only to be brutally betrayed. Angelina Jolie stars as the titular character, with Elle Fanning playing Princess Aurora, the ...
Apr 14, 2024 · The Writers Guild of America West’s Animation Writers Caucus (AWC) has named writer Linda Woolverton as the honoree of its eleventh annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement, recognizing her creative contributions to advance the craft of film and television animation writing. The Guild’s prestigious award was presented to ...
Dec 31, 2014 · Woolverton provided the book for the Broadway adaptation of Beauty and the Beast that opened in New York in Spring 1994. For an article on the then newly released animated feature Beauty and the Beast, I interviewed Linda Woolverton briefly over the phone in 1992 concentrating on the character of Belle.
Oct 16, 2019 · Back in 1979, when Linda Woolverton was running a children’s theater company, she had a career-changing revelation. Performing one day in a penguin costume for a handful of restive children, she ...
Sep 16, 2020 · September 16, 2020 10:47am. Courtesy of UTA. EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed award-winning writer and producer Linda Woolverton for worldwide representation in all areas. She was previously with WME ...
2019. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil …. Executive Producer. Linda Woolverton is a writer best known for the screenplay for Disney's animated feature film Beauty and the Beast and co-wrote the screenplay for the The Lion King. Woolverton then went on to write the Broadway musical version of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King to the stage.
May 27, 2016 · Linda Woolverton’s long and impressive tenure as one of Disney’s top screenwriters started with a thought we’ve all had after watching a bad flick: I could do better than that.She won’t ...
