• First-Time Directors Sign On For 2016 'Angry Birds' Movie

    Two first-time directors have just been hired for Sony's 2016 animated movie based on the popular mobile game Angry Birds. They are Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly. You may not yet know their names, but you definitely know their work. Kaytis is a long time Disney employee who recently served as the animation supervisor on Tangled, oversaw…

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  • Star Wars Bits: 'Angry Birds', 'Club Penguin', Star Tours, Barack Obama

    Get ready to revisit the prequels, Angry Birds-style. Also after the jump: Knights of the Old Republic gets a birthday sale Star Wars will take over Disney's Club Penguin The Star Tours rides are getting an update in 2015 George Lucas says Star Trek made Star Wars possible President Obama gives George Lucas a hug…

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  • 'Angry Birds' Movie Adds 'Simpsons' Screenwriter

    Like a bird slingshotting into a pig-inhabited pile of bricks, Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds movie is picking up speed. Just a few days after Sony Pictures stepped up to distribute the film, Emmy-winning writer/producer Jon Vitti has been hired to script it. In addition, Catherine Winder has just stepped up to produce. Hit the jump to…

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  • Sony Will Distribute Rovio's 'Angry Birds' Movie

    We just gave you the Rio 2 teaser, and now here's an appropriate accompaniment. The original Rio was promoted with a movie-specific version of the massively popular mobile game Angry Birds, and the original Angry Birds concept (inasmuch as it can be called a concept, at least as far as a movie goes) is also…

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  • 'Angry Birds' Will Crash Into Cinemas In 2016; 'Despicable Me' Producer Signs On

    It's hard to believe it's only been three years since Rovio Entertainment launched a little mobile game called Angry Birds. In that time, the franchise has become totally ubiquitous. I'm not just talking about the countless special editions of the game itself, either. I can't walk into a drugstore without seeing Angry Birds-branded candy and…

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  • VOTD: 'Angry Birds' Through The Eyes Of Guy Ritchie

    Fake Angry Birds movie trailers are nothing new. We even posted a good one, done in the style of Michael Bay, a few months back. But as Hollywood struggles to get an official version off the ground, the gang over at Machinima and The Quarter Bin, such as director Nick Murphy, have come up with…

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  • 'Angry Birds' Gets Input From Former Marvel Studios Chairman

    For over a year and a half, Angry Birds has been one of the most popular games in the world. It's big enough that Aaron Sorkin spouted a joke about it on 30 Rock (and also gave out some play advice in the same scene); hell, big enough that it has replaced Farmville as the…

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  • iPhone/iPad Game Angry Birds Being Developed Into A Movie?

    Angry Birds is probably the most addictive game on the iPhone or iPad. The game basically involves slingshotting various different types of birds, each with different atributes (one can slingshot for instance, where another drops a egg bomb) at structures housing green pig creatures. The goal is not to knock down the structures, but to…

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