Magnificent arrival

On her first trip to the mainland, Angelina Jolie promotes her latest film Maleficent and says she is keen to collaborate with Chinese filmmakers. Matt Hodges reports from Shanghai.

Angelina Jolie has earlier played a "tomb-raiding" British explorer, a Russian spy and a kung fu tigress, but her latest role as a malevolent fairy with a soft spot and devilish sense of humor tops them all, she said during her first visit to the Chinese mainland last week.

In Maleficent, Disney's CGI-heavy revisionist revamp of its classic Sleeping Beauty (1959 ), Jolie gets to use her English headmistress accent and wear curved black horns while appearing on screen for the first time with one of her six children. The movie is told from the perspective of the once-bitten-twice-shy villain.