Casting News: Brenton Thwaites in Maleficent

Australian panty-creamer Brenton Thwaites will play the heartthrob prince in Angelina Jolie's Maleficent.  Thwaite stars in the latest Blue Lagoon rendition which will air on Lifetime television next month.  He's playing opposite professional nuisance Denise Richards, who has the role of mother of his love interest.  (I guess Brooke Shields had bigger fish to fry.)  Previous credits include Australian soap opera Home and Away and teen drama SLiDE.  It also stars Miranda Richardson, Mike Leigh girls Imelda Staunton and Lesley Manville, future troublemakers Elle Fanning and Juno Temple, and Indiana Eisley (who will play the younger version of Jolie).  The reception for Julia Robert's evil queen was so lukewarm and Snow White and the Huntsman is barely keeping its head above the 50% RT mark.  The movie won't be coming out for two years, but I really want to see how it will play out.  I'm not holding my breath quality-wise, but am more curious about Jolie's box-office pull.  Is she already doomed?  Will reviews not even figure into the movie's commercial viability?  Or, does she really have it, after all?  Obviously, I want this film to be a success, whether it's crap or otherwise ...

[Source: Deadline]