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https://screenrant.com/maleficent-3-...-record-break/

Angelina Jolie is set to reprise her role as the title character in the third entry in the Maleficent series, and the movie could end up breaking a box office record from way back in 2011. Despite appearing in fewer movies of late, Angelina Jolie is still one of the most famous people on the planet. Her acting career has seen her star in a number of hit movies, many of which have gone on to be financially successful. Now, the star is scheduled to make her return to the Maleficent franchise, in a move that could have record-smashing results.

The first Maleficent film was released in 2014 and was followed by a sequel in 2019. Maleficent is one of Angelina Jolie's best characters to date and is certainly the one that has defined her recent movie career the most. From what is currently known, Maleficent 3 is in the works and is thought to be in the very early stages of development. If the film is as successful as its predecessors, Maleficent 3 could break a 13-year-old Angelina Jolie record.

As it stands, the Kung Fu Panda movies are Angelina Jolie's highest-grossing movie franchise. The actress voiced the character of Master Tigress, an anthropomorphic tiger, in the first three installments of the animated series. Overall, the four Kung Fu Panda films have earned a worldwide box office total of just over $2.3 billion (via The Numbers). This is a considerable amount more than Jolie's previous highest-grossing franchise, the Tomb Raider films, which made a little over $430 million globally. In fact, Kung Fu Panda beat Tomb Raider's record way back in 2011 with Kung Fu Panda 2.

Both Maleficent movies alone made more money than Jolie's Tomb Raider films combined, with the first installment earning an impressive $758 million and 2019's Maleficent: Mistress of Evil following it with a still respectable $489 million (via The Numbers). However, the two movies couldn't manage to surpass Kung Fu Panda's stratospheric box office total. With Maleficent 3, though, that could be about to change.

Presently, Maleficent 3 will need to make just shy of $1.1 billion in order for the franchise to overtake the Kung Fu Panda movies as Angelina Jolie's highest-grossing film series. While achieving such an amount isn't totally impossible, it is unlikely given that the first two Maleficent movies have an average box office total of $624 million. However, those sums include Kung Fu Panda 4, a movie that Angelina Jolie isn't actually in. When Kung Fu Panda's earnings are removed from the equation, Maleficent 3 only needs to earn $571 million to break the record.

looking forward to this, i very much enjoyed the first two films so