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Shane Black's 2016 cop comedy "The Nice Guys" was a winking, comedic riff on hard-boiled detective movies, meant to deconstruct the genre as much as pay homage to it. Set in Los Angeles in 1977, the plot revolves around the booming porn industry and the private investigators hired to look into a mysterious death. The central joke of "The Nice Guys" is that the main P.I.s, Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) are kind of bumbling idiots. They know how to investigate mysteries, but their central talents seem to be good luck and mere tenacity. Because the film was written by Black, the dialogue crackles and the characters vibrate with energy and life; Black doesn't write dialogue to be merely functional, preferring to give his characters wit and pathos. 

"The Nice Guys" cost $50 million to make, but only ultimately earned about $71 million worldwide, which, in Hollywood terms, is a notable bomb.

While Christmas has come and gone, Legendary and Warner Bros. are looking to give a belated gift to us all as sources tell Deadline the two companies have closed a deal for Peter Billingsley to star in A Christmas Story Christmas, a sequel to the holiday classic A Christmas Story, which will premiere on HBO Max. While not confirmed, sources add Airplane star Julie Hagerty will play Billingsley’s mother. The script was written by Nick Schenk, who will also executive produce, and Clay Kaytis will direct. Billingsley will also produce along with his partner Vince Vaughn through their Wild West Picture Show productions. Cale Boyter and Jay Ashenfelter will oversee for Legendary. Production is set to start at the end of February in Bulgaria.

The film follows an adult Ralphie (Billingsley) in the 1970s, who returns to the house on Cleveland street to deliver his kids a magical Christmas...

Exclusive: Former Sony Pictures Animation VP of Creative Strategy, Alison Mann, has partnered with Fourth Wall Management to launch the production company Fourth Wall Animation as Co-President.

Mann will work with Fourth Wall Management where she will also serve as a Manager. Her growing client list includes: Jimmy Craig (The Secret Life of Pets), Sophie Koko Gate (Slug Life); John Hoffman (Luca); Donna Lee (Raya and the Last Dragon); Dan Serafin (The Thundermans), Michelle Staphylas (Kung Fu Panda 3); Olivier Staphylas (Abominable).

They will join Fourth Wall’s existing animation clients, including: Trent Correy (Once Upon a Snowman), Hamish Grieve (Rumble), Jenn Kluska (Hotel Transylvania: Transformania), Meghan Malloy (Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse), Zach Parrish (Raya and the Last Dragon), Aram Spencer Porter (We Bare Bears), Ian Jones Quartey (Steven Universe), Pam Pettler (Corpse Bride), Fergal Reilly (The Angry Birds Movie), Stephanie Stine (Raya and the Last Dragon), Rebecca Sugar (Steven...

DreamWorks Animation has launched development on the adventure-fantasy “Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles” as a movie with Irish director Fergal Reilly signed to direct as part of an overall deal with the studio.

Tom Lennon’s “Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles” was a New York Times bestseller that was published last year and is a high-adventure fantasy tale set in a magical world of law-breaking leprechauns and deadly monsters. It was followed by “Ronan Boyle and the Swamp of Certain Death.”

Lennon will write the movie script based on his book series, which reinvents Irish mythological tropes seen through the eyes of awkward Irish teen Ronan Boyle who lives in the long shadow of his famous parents. When Ronan’s parents are wrongly accused of the theft of a national treasure and sent to jail, Ronan sets out to prove their innocence and face leprechauns, undead...

In today’s films news roundup, “Lucy in the Sky” and “Villains” get release dates, “The Angry Birds 2” is moved up a day, Tony Todd gets a part and Art House Theater Day is set.

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Fox Searchlight has set an awards-season release date of Oct. 4 for Natalie Portman’s astronaut drama “Lucy in the Sky.”

Noah Hawley helmed “Lucy in the Sky” in his directorial feature film debut. Portman stars as an astronaut who returns to Earth after an extended time is space and begins an obsessive affair with a fellow astronaut, played by Jon Hamm. The plot is loosely based on the true story of Nasa astronaut Lisa Nowak, who was arrested in 2007 for the attempted murder of fellow astronaut Colleen Shipman, who was romantically involved with astronaut William Oefelein.

The film, formerly called “Pale Blue Dot,” also stars Dan Stevens — as the husband of Portman’s...

The Angry Birds Movie director Fergal Reilly is tackling a live-action road trip movie for his next project.

Reilly will helm Pete and Goat, an R-rated dramedy that centers on a millennial named Pete and his lifelong love Jenny, who are dragged into a perilous road trip by an unimaginably foul-mouthed man-goat claiming to be a character from a childhood storybook they left unfinished.

Michael Vukadinovich is behind the original screenplay.

Daniel Dubiecki (Juno, Thank You for Smoking) and Lara Alameddine (Money Monster) will produce the pic under their Allegiance Theatre banner, with Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios financing.

Prior to Angry ...

The Angry Birds Movie director Fergal Reilly is tackling a live-action road trip movie for his next project.

Reilly will helm Pete and Goat, an R-rated dramedy that centers on a millennial named Pete and his lifelong love Jenny, who are dragged into a perilous road trip by an unimaginably foul-mouthed man-goat claiming to be a character from a childhood storybook they left unfinished.

Michael Vukadinovich is behind the original screenplay.

Daniel Dubiecki (Juno, Thank You for Smoking) and Lara Alameddine (Money Monster) will produce the pic under their Allegiance Theatre banner, with Stuart Ford’s Agc Studios financing.

Prior to Angry ...

Nicki Minaj has joined “The Angry Birds Movie 2,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The Sony Animation sequel hits theaters on Aug. 16, 2019.

Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, and Peter Dinklage will all reprise their roles from the first film. They are joined by Leslie Jones, Rachel Bloom, Awkwafina, Sterling K. Brown, Eugenio Derbez, Lil Rel Howery, Dove Cameron, and Zach Woods. Minaj’s role is currently unknown.

“Angry Birds Movie 2” is directed by Thurop Van Orman and co-directed by John Rice. The pic is produced by John Cohen and co-produced by Mary Ellen Bauder Andrews. David Maisel and Catherine Winder are executive producer. Sony Pictures Imageworks handles the animation.

The release date for “Angry Birds Movie 2” coincides with the 10th anniversary of the hit video game. The “Angry Birds” games have been downloaded more than 4 billion times.

“Angry Birds” grossed $350 million worldwide, including $107.5 million domestically, in 2016. The film,...

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The Angry Birds Movie 2 is arriving this summer, led by Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, Leslie Jones and Peter Dinklage.

The Angry Birds Movie 2 is coming this summer!

2016 predecessor The Angry Birds Movie may not have troubled the Oscars, but, with the film having grossed $352 million globally at the box office, we can’t imagine there’s too much disappointment. Moments of the film itself – which adapts Rovio’s global phenomenon of an app game – spark into a bit of life, which made the news that Sony Pictures Animation was working on a sequel not exactly surprising.

However, The Angry Birds Movie 2 will arrive under the purview of a first-time feature director in Thurop Van Orman, a writer from Adventure Time and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. He worked off a script by Peter Ackerman, who also – in a major genre...

Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, and Peter Dinklage are returning as voice cast for Sony Pictures’ “The Angry Birds Movie 2.”

Sony announced last year that it had set a Sept. 20, 2019, release date for “The Angry Birds Movie 2” — coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the hit video game. The studio is re-teaming with Finland-based Rovio Entertainment Ltd. for the animated sequel.

“Angry Birds” grossed a solid $350 million worldwide, including $107 million domestically. The film, directed by Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis, was set on an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – except for Red (voiced by Sudeikis), speedy Chuck (Gad), and Bomb (McBride). Hader returns as Leonard, king of the pigs, and Dinklage voices the Mighty Eagle.

Leslie Jones is on board as the voice of the film’s villain. Rachel Bloom, Sterling K. Brown, Eugenio Derbez, Zach Woods, Awkwafina, Lil Rel Howery, Dove Cameron, and...

Dry those parental tears, little lamb, we all knew this was coming. Columbia Pictures and Rovio Entertainment have announced that The Angry Birds Movie 2 will spread its wings on September 20, 2019 in an effort to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the original mobile game that inspired the 2016 Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly-directed animated film. That's not all, though. We've also learned... Read More...

The most unlikely video-game-to-silver-screen transfer is surprisingly successful, but there are more substantial alternatives on offer

No film this year sounded worse on paper than The Angry Birds Movie (Sony, U): the mobile game, an irritation-based fad already past its pop-culture peak, has no obvious narrative framework, and kamikaze canaries are surely more fun when you’re the one controlling them. Against all conceivable odds, however, Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly’s suitably crazed, Crayola-splattered cartoon is a pleasure: a disposable one, low on nutrition and high on noise, but a romp that adds just enough character-based warmth to the game’s dumb, knockabout anarchy to justify the leap to a screen larger than six inches. I’ll be surprised anew if the forthcoming Emoji movie has anything like its spirit.

More chiaroscuro-toned thrills are on offer in The Clan (Curzon Artificial Eye, 15), Argentinian director Pablo Trapero’s muscular,...

Outside of the lucrative Resident Evil franchise – which, incidentally, is being readied for its swan song in early 2017 with The Final Chapter – it’s not often we bring you news of a video game movie earning a sequel.

Things aren’t looking too promising for Legendary’s Warcraft, for instance, but it seems Finnish giant Rovio and Sony Pictures have hatched early plans for a follow-up to the Angry Birds movie. That’s according to Rovio CEO Kati Levoranta, who revealed to VentureBeat that the company has already started mapping out plans for a sequel, though it appears things are still in the nascent stages of development.

“We currently have several exciting new games and other projects in development, including new IP, and we have started planning the sequel to The Angry Birds Movie. With the excellent performance of our games portfolio and the fantastic movie, the Angry Birds brand...

The Angry Birds Movie (2016) Video Movie Review, a Rovio Entertainment movie directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly and starring Jason Sudekis and Red, Josh Gad as Chuck, Danny McBride as Bomb, Maya Rudolph as Matilda, Bill Hader as Leonard and Peter Dinklage as Mighty Eagle In this video review, I delve into Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly’s The […]...

Angry Birds, which won the weekend at the North American box office with an estimated $39 million opening, came to theaters thanks to a production collaboration between Sony and Finnish video game developer Rovio, which created the wildly-popular Angry Birds mobile game franchise on which the CG-animated movie is based. To helm the film that reveals why the birds are so angry, the two companies brought on two first-time directors, Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis. Reilly, who has worked as a storyboard artist on such films as Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballls,

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So much for the three-peat.

"Captain America: Civil War" could have come out on top for the third straight weekend. It could even have lost 45 percent of last weekend's business (when it earned $72.6 million) and still outdistanced this weekend's three new wide releases. Even after three weeks, you might still have expected the Marvel mega-movie to outdistance three seemingly-undistinguished newcomers: a period action comedy starring no-longer-a-box-office-draw Russell Crowe and never-really-a-box-office-draw Ryan Gosling; a Seth Rogen comedy sequel, and a cartoon based on an app that everyone thought was really cool six years ago.

Nonetheless, "The Angry Birds Movie" knocked down "Captain America," along with "The Nice Guys" (pictured) and "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," as easily as a short stack of pigs. The cartoon earned an estimated $39.0 million, about $1 million more than distributor Sony had predicted. "Civil War" had to settle for second, with an estimated $33.1 million (down 54 percent from a...

Angry Birds has officially flown the coop from popular mobile game to full-fledged movie stardom. Sony and Rovio's animated film took to the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with a strong debut of $39 million, while this crowded weekend's other new releases — comedy sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and detective caper The Nice Guys — struggled to take flight. Angry Birds, directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, beat expectations to take the top slot over Disney and Marvel's Captain America: Civil War, which is now in its third week in theaters. Civil War earned

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When the second trailer for The Angry Birds Movie hit the web in January, what got the Internet talking most was that preview’s extended pee joke. Three of the film’s avian leads, in search of the legendary Mighty Eagle, find the landmark of their hero’s home: the Lake of Wisdom. Chuck and Bomb drink up and swim all around the lake’s sparkling waters, while Red stands offshore, urging his friends to get out of the sacred lake. Then the long-hidden Mighty Eagle makes his appearance out of the cave above the lake — which he proceeds to use as his personal urinal. In the trailer, it’s a 40-second-long joke about unintentional urophagia. In the film, the sequence is even longer, and, yes, you do see Mighty Eagle’s animated bodily fluids, while the trailer’s viewers were only treated to the sound of him relieving himself.

Review by Dane Marti

Angry Birds is a film experience of monumental proportions—if gauged by the excited kids in the theater. Basically, the story centers around an angry red bird living amidst a colorful array of other flightless birds on a small island somewhere in the world. The birds are all colorfully plumed and seem to be awfully well adjusted. Some might say, too well adjusted for their own good. I’m not exactly sure why the birds are unable to fly, but that must have been a major element of the original game that this film grew from.

Red bird is Angry. He’s hot under the feathers! Like many of us non-cartoon humans—at least I like to think I’m not a cartoon! –Red bird has seriously intense anger issues, and near the start of his amusing film, he finds himself in a class with other malcontents.

The Angry Birds happily soared to an estimated $11 million Friday on its way to its $38 million to $40 million domestic debut. That tally with give the Sony-Rovio animated film just enough height to land in the No. 1 spot for the weekend, ahead of three-week holdover Captain America: Civil War which is expected to earn around $32 million for the weekend, bringing its domestic tally to around $323 million. Angry Birds, directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, features the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride and Maya Rudolph. Its Friday total includes the

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Sean Penn has a reputation for being a serious actor and a serious man. But he recently took part in a rather silly project: The Angry Birds Movie. The animated family film adaptation of the birds-vs.-pigs mobile app is a goofy affair, packed with slapstick comedy and scatological humor. And Penn was eager to sign himself up after watching an early cut of the movie. In Angry Birds, Penn lends his voice to Terence, a character that doesn’t ever speak. Massive, stony Terence — whom lead bird Red (Jason Sudeikis) meets in anger management — isn’t the talkative type, but he utters a few grunts and growls every now and then. Meanwhile, the other birds do speak, though that they would wasn’t an immediate given when players of the game were waiting to find out how it would be turned into a movie. (In the Finnish Angry Birds cartoon series,...

The world of Angry Birds has never demanded much intellectual stimulation. Rovio’s smartphone game is merely a brainless time-waster, where you shoot cartoon birds out of a slingshot in hopes of defeating egg-hungry piggies. Fling your flightless heroes, and destroy everything in your path. There’s no explanation needed. So when news of The Angry Birds Movie came to be, concerns of plot thickness immediately were raised. Could writer Jon Vitti craft a story weighty enough to sling wholesome family entertainment for an hour-and-a-half? Well, it’s a yes and no answer – with a much more pronounced “No.”

On a remote tropical island, there lives a community of flightless birds who are as happy as can be – well, everyone expect for Red (Jason Sudeikis). While all the other birds joyously go about their days, Red struggles with a temper problem that turned him into a social outcast. As per a judge’s ruling,...

What the heck is this? Some sort of meninist political statement attempting to vindicate male anger? In a kids’ movie? Maybe men shouldn’t make movies… I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): movies based on games fill me with dread

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Movies are so dominated by women that you’d be forgiven for presuming that a new one entitled Angry Birds is likely yet another broad grossout slapstick comedy about a gang of cranky, foulmouthed gals getting into trouble and embarrassing themselves with malicious glee. (I know that I, for one, am tired of this subgenre, in which there seems to be a new entry every other week.) Sure, this movie is based on a popular mobile-app game, but the game is pure nonsense: it doesn’t have anything approaching an actual story or genuine characters. It’s a template,...

As The Angry Birds Movie prepares to catapult into cinemas this Friday, we caught up with Irish director and animation supremo Fergal Reilly to talk about his directorial debut. A native of Hunterstown, outside Ardee in Co. Louth, Reilly has worked extensively behind the scenes as a story board artist on some of our favourite animations from Space Jam to The Iron Giant, Hotel Transylvania to Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, as well as adventures in live action with Stuart Little 2 and Spiderman 2, to name but a few. He tells us what drew him to The Angry Birds Movie with co-helmer Clay Kaytis, the challenges involved in adapting one of the world's most successful mobile games, what cartoons inspired his love of animation and the highlights so far in his twenty year career in Los Angeles. Check it out below.. Synopsis: The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy,...

If you imagine the arena of theatrical film releasing as a huge games arcade, then computer game-to-film adaptation Ratchet and Clank, released in the U.S. by Focus Features, is the weedy kid whose feeble high score is about to be annihilated by a cocky rival: The Angry Birds Movie. This animated feature, directed by Fergal Reilly and Clay Katis, is based on an already hugely successful franchise (if now fading from playground favor), first launched by Finnish game company Rovio in 2009 and which has already spawned a series of cartoon shorts. The brightly colored, quirkily humorous games,

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In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry.

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride, This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

Featuring a hilarious, all-star voice cast that includes Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids, Sisters), Bill Hader (Trainwreck, Inside Out), and Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), as well as Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live,” Ghostbusters), Sean Penn (Milk, Mystic River), Tony Hale (Veep, Arrested Development...

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This Sunday, May 8, is Mother’s Day. Mums over in the UK celebrated the annual holiday earlier this year on March 6th. In England its better known as “Mothering Sunday.”

Wamg wishes all the moms out there (including our own) a Happy Mother’s Day!

In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry.

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride, This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to...

Exclusive: Fergal Reilly, who is making his directorial debut co-helming The Angry Birds Movie, has signed with UTA. The Irishman is a longtime storyboard artist with credits including Hotel Transylvania, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and its sequel, Spider-Man 2 as well as head of story at Sony Pictures Animation. As a storyboard supervisor, he has developed projects with Jon Favreau and Richard Linklater and is among the rare breed of story artists who have…...

The latest trailer for The Angry Birds Movie doesn't contain very much new footage, so my opinion of it hasn't changed very much since the last trailer finally made me understand why the film exists. The biggest revelation for me was in the credits at the very end: I knew that Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, and Patton Oswalt were in the film, but Sean Penn? I had no clue he was in this! I must have completely missed that announcement. (So did his IMDb page, apparently.)

The Angry Birds Movie hits theaters on May 20th.

In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we'll finally find out why the birds are so angry.

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We're the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy...

Meet Red. In Sony Pictures’ animated rendition of Angry Birds, he’ll be voiced by Jason Sudeikis and no matter how hard he tries, our flightless, somewhat temperamental protagonist always struggles to assimilate with the rest of Bird Island.

That’s a lifelong struggle that takes center stage in the third and seemingly final full-length trailer for the Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis-directed picture. Flanked by his long-time buddies and fellow village idiots, Chuck (Frozen star Josh Gad) and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride), Red comes to unearth a conspiracy that could threaten to upend the serene tranquility of Bird Island.

When those pesky piggies make shore on his home, Sudeikis’ explosive lead suspects that there’s more at play than a simple meet and greet. And so begins a bright and breezy origins tale involving Red and Co., one which involves literal Angry Birds, riotous set pieces and,...

Finally find out why the birds are so angry.

In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry.

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

Featuring a cast that includes Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph and Peter Dinklage, Kate McKinnon, Tony Hale and Hannibal Buress, the film is directed by Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis.

The Angry Birds Movies is in cinemas from 13 May 2016.

Take a look @ Sony Pictures Imageworks upcoming 3D CG feature film, "The Angry Birds Movie" based on the mobile game, starring the voice talents of Kate McKinnon, Hannibal Burress and Keegan-Michael Key, directed by Clay Kaytis amd Fergal Reilly, opening May 2016:

"...the movie takes place on 'Bird Island', an untouched paradise inhabited by birds who are naive and innocent, who know nothing of the outside world. They treasure eggs above all else, and are all carefree and easygoing, except for a few.

"One of these birds is 'Red', a societal outcast who has had anger issues from the very beginning. Eventually, his outbursts become too much and he is sentenced to anger management courses, where he meets other misfit birds with similar problems.

"The birds are suddenly visited by green pigs. The birds and pigs quickly befriend each other, but Red does not trust the pigs at all.

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis – We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride – This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to. The Angry Birds Movie was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, and stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader, and Peter Dinklage. It's set to be released in 3D on May 20th, 2016.

In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry… Set on an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride, This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

Featuring a hilarious, all-star voice cast that includes Bill Hader (Trainwreck, Inside Out), Maya Rudolph(Bridesmaids), and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), as well as Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele), Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live, next year’s Ghostbusters), Tony Hale (Veep, Arrested Development), Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project,...

"Can anyone see what's going on here?" Sony has unveiled a second trailer for their upcoming animated The Angry Birds Movie, which even features a Michael Jackson song, because what better way to sell this junk than connect it with Michael Jackson. This animated movie is based on the popular video game series and it seems about as completely brainless as the games, without much of an interesting story. The voice cast includes Jason Sudeikis, Kate McKinnon, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Josh Gad, Danny McBride and Peter Dinklage as the voice of Mighty Eagle. This doesn't look like it's worth seeing unless you have kids, but give it a look anyway in case anyone is curious to see how they turned this into a movie. Here's the second official trailer for Clay Kaytis & Fergal Reilly's Angry Birds movie, direct from YouTube: The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy,...

Even though Angry Birds the game didn’t really grow on me, I’m honestly beyond excited about the upcoming movie! After the official trailer, we saw some new images, followed by the Angry Birds holiday trailer, and now we have a brand new trailer that reveals a few new scenes.

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis – We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride – This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

Directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, the angry birds get the voices of Maya Rudolph,...

Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses) has a temper problem in the first full-length trailer for Sony’s upcoming Angry Birds animation, which seeds the origins story behind the seemingly never-ending conflict between those dastardly pigs and the titular avians that has captured the imagination of an entire generation.

Leaping from touch screen to silver screen in May of this year, animation newcomers Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis are the directors tasked with lending personality to those temperamental – and, crucially, flightless – birds, who have grown into an undisputed global phenomenon with close to 2 billion downloads of the title game across numerous platforms.

But success in one medium doesn’t necessarily guarantee a sure-fire hit in another; outside of the relatively popular Angry Birds Toons, this is the first time that Rovio’s mobile juggernaut will be moulded into a tangible story, replete with narrative and an impressive voice cast. Situated on the...

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The big budget animated Angry Birds movie lands in May - and here's the new trailer...

Duncan Jones' Warcraft movie may be the leading candidate to properly break the curse of the videogame movie. The theory runs that there's never been a very good film based on a game, even though there's been no shortage of attempts.

However, flinging into cinemas before Warcraft is another big game adaptation, Angry Birds. The hugely successful mobile game has been turned into a big animated movie from Sony Pictures Animation. Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly have directed the film, which is scheduled for release in the UK on Friday May 13th (a week before it lands in the Us).

A new trailer and synopsis for the movie have been released overnight, so we'll do them in order.

Here's the trailer...

And here's that synopsis...

The movie takes us to...

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Sony Pictures has released today two new photos of Blake Shelton in The Angry Birds Movie. Shelton is providing the voice of Earl, a cowboy pig.

Shelton also performs an original song called “Friends.”

Ross (Tony Hale), Stella (Kate McKinnon), Photog (Tituss Burgess) and Earl (Blake Shelton).

In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry. (Teaser)

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride, This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up...

The Angry Birds Movie’s lovable baby birds, the Hatchlings, sing the holiday song “Deck The Halls” in this adorable new video.

In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry.

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride, This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders.

But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

The all-star voice cast includes Bill Hader (Trainwreck, Inside Out), Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids), and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), as...

It might have surprised you that Angry Birds managed a movie, or it might not have surprised you at all, but the crew assembled for this curious, based-on-an-app-game effort is a little surprising, even for those too jaded to bat an eye at this money grab.

It’s a cast that would make you think you’re in for something amazing, but the trailer doesn’t exactly flesh out what it is that makes these birds so angry, except that Red (Jason Sudeikis) seems to have stumbled out of Inside Out.

It’s bound to make a ton of money (and have virtually nothing to do with the game), but the general irritation at film adaptations just for the sake of raking in dough could win out if this one doesn’t give us a lot more info in a hurry.

Check it out, and let us know what you think.

No joke. This is a real movie.

The first trailer for the unfortunate iPhone game adaptation, Angry Birds, was released on Wednesday and showed us that culture may truly be on the decline. The film features the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader, and Peter Dinklage.

The synopsis is as follows:

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis – We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride – This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

"We're going to be working on managing our anger through movement!" Oh boy, here we go. Have you ever sat there and wondered - why are all the angry birds so angry? No, you haven't? That isn't the most pressing question going through your mind every single day? Well, too bad, because next summer Sony is going to release The Angry Birds Movie, a CG-animated movie about the Angry Birds the finally answers the question of "why are the birds so angry?" And a few other stories, too. The voice cast in this includes Jason Sudeikis as Red, along with Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Peter Dinklage, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph and others. This is pretty much following in the Minions' footsteps, but with Angry Birds instead. Here's the first official trailer for Clay Kaytis & Fergal Reilly's Angry Birds movies, direct from YouTube: The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy,...

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis – We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride – This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to. The Angry Birds Movie was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, and stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader, and Peter Dinklage. It's set to be released in 3D on May 20th, 2016. Thoughts on the trailer?...

Bird Island is headed to the big screen, and as promised, Rovio and Sony Pictures have showcased the first footage for its high-profile Angry Birds film, seeding an origin story between the nefarious pigs and the titular avians.

Introducing the various breeds of short-tempered birds, the trailer is but a tease of what to expect from the 2016 animation, as directors Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis look to lend some personality to those colorful sprites that have soared across a billion mobile screens over the past few years. Penned by Jon Vitti, Sony’s CG animation is facing an uphill battle to win over its doubters, and today’s vertical slice is a breezy and vibrant hint of Reilly and Kaytis budding newcomer to the competitive animation scene.

Leading the charge is Horrible Bosses‘ star Jason Sudeikis as Red, a bumbling avian with a temper problem, along with Josh Gad as...

Here's the first trailer for the animated feature based on the videogame Angry Birds...

The Angry Birds phenomenon may have peaked in videogame form (although it's still popular), but Sony will nonetheless hope there's enough enthusiasm for the property to make its Angry Birds movie a hit.

The animated venture is arriving in cinemas in May 2016, and directing this one are Clay Kaytis (who's worked on Disney films from Pocahontas through to Frozen) and Fergal Reilly (whose credits include storyboard work on Spider-Man 2, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and The Iron Giant). Both are making their directorial debuts with the feature.

Angry Birds features the voice talents of Jason Sudeikis, Peter Dinklage, Bill Hader, Josh Gad, Maya Rudolph and Danny McBride, amongst others.

The first trailer for the movie has now landed, and here's a flavour as to what treats await next spring...

Here's the poster for the film too.

Sony Animation introduced the world to the Angry Birds movie last week at a grand unveiling, but just in case the world was too busy playing actual Angry Birds to notice, here’s a first teaser trailer to show what’s in store with the animation.The film’s premise has the naive and surprisingly mellow birds living in peaceful climes - the perma-fiery Red (Jason Sudeikis) aside. Co-directors Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly introduce us to a world full of knowing nods - a Birds And Bees Fertility Clinic and an Early Bird Worm Shop are two fixtures on the avian island – in which flightless birds live in harmony, still unmolested by troublesome pigs.There’s also speedster Chuck (Josh Gad), anger management therapist Matilda (Maya Rudolph), and the self-explanatory Bomb (Danny McBride). But then, joining the jamboree as initially innocent visitors from over the horizon, come a bunch of nautical pigs.

If you thought Hollywood couldn’t possibly turn a small-scale mobile game into a feature film, then you’ve underestimated their powers for cash-grabbing. The Angry Birds Movie will arrive next year, courtesy of directors Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, and today brings the first trailer.

While we’re not quite sure what to make of it, the adaptation features a massive voice cast, including Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage, Keegan-Michael Key, Tony Hale, Ike Barinholtz, Hannibal Buress, Jillian Bell, Danielle Brooks, Romeo Santos, and Smosh.

We also have a new trailer for an update on Charles Schulz‘s classic comic Peanuts. Directed by Steve Martino (Ice Age: Continental Drift), and produced by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids), the story will follow Snoopy as he imagines what’s going on in his owner’s life, including boarding his doghouse-turned-Sopwith Camel plane and...

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Naysayers be damned, Sony Pictures Animation is pushing ahead with its high-profile Angry Birds film – and now we have the first images to prove it.

Debuting ahead of the full trailer next week, the screenshots are but a taster of the project’s animation style, which is truly something to behold. But will it be enough to dispel any lingering doubts? Unlikely. But one of the main tenets that has us at least cautiously optimistic for the licensed project is its ensemble cast, not to mention the fact that it is being hyped up as an origins story between the devious swine and flightless birds.

Situated on Bird Island, Angry Birds will actually begin in a time when the two factions exist in harmony with one another, and the film itself will chart their descent into full-blown rivalry. Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis are behind the lens for this one,...

A groundbreaking release in every sense, Angry Birds lands next May with the franchise-building hopes of Sony Pictures Animation pinned to it. An early showcase showed off what this, on paper, zany-sounding app-to-movie CG adaptation holds in store. This guy, basically. The most enraged of the avians, Red (voiced by Jason Sudeikis), is the hero of a story that's set largely on a tropical island populated by the flightless birds familiar to the game's three billion-odd downloaders.So how has Sony and developer Rovio made sense of the simple weeeeeeeee-bang-crash gameplay in a movie context? "The question we get asked more than any other is 'Why are the birds so angry?" says producer John Cohen. "This movie is going to be the origin story of how that conflict came to exist."The How To Train Your Pigeon-like premise has the peace-loving, naive and surprisingly mellow birds initially living in harmony - the shirty Red aside.