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Rovio Animation
Rovio Animation, Ltd. is the animation division of Kaiken Entertainment after it was acquired from its original owner, Rovio Entertainment, in March 2017. It is led by former Rovio CEO Mikael Hed. Sony Pictures Television carries distribution for their television productions after their works on ''The Angry Birds Movie ''The Angry Birds Movie'' (also known simply as ''Angry Birds'') is a 2016 computer-animated comedy film based on Rovio Entertainment's video game series of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures and Rovio Animation, and distributed by S ...''. Filmography Television series Feature films References 2012 establishments Finnish animation studios Angry Birds {{animation-studio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rovio Entertainment
Rovio Entertainment Oyj (formerly Relude Oy and Rovio Mobile Oy and doing business internationally as the Rovio Entertainment Corporation) is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo. Founded in 2003 by Helsinki University of Technology students Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert, the company is best known for the ''Angry Birds'' franchise. The company currently operates studios in Espoo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Montreal. History In 2003, three students from the Helsinki University of Technology, Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert, participated in a mobile game development competition at the Assembly demo party sponsored by Nokia and Hewlett-Packard. A victory with a mobile game called ''King of the Cabbage World'' led the trio to set up their own company, Relude. ''King of the Cabbage World'' was sold to Sumea, and renamed to ''Mole War'', which became one of the first commercial real-time multiplayer mobile games. In January 2005, Relude receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Madness
Summer Madness may refer to: * "Summer Madness" (instrumental), a 1974 instrumental tune by Kool & the Gang * "Summer Madness" (Lead song), 2006 * Summer Madness (festival), a Christian festival in Northern Ireland * the UK release title of the 1955 Katharine Hepburn film ''Summertime'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyal Podell
Eyal Podell (; he, אייל פודל; born November 11, 1975) is an Israeli-American actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his portrayals of Professor Adrian Korbel in the soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'', Evram Mintz in '' Defying Gravity'', and Namir Eschel in '' NCIS''. With partner Jonathon E. Stewart, he wrote the screenplay or story for the films ''Cars 3'' (2017), ''The Angry Birds Movie 2'' (2019), and ''Scoob!'' (2020). Early life Podell was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a family of Jewish background. After spending the first two years of his childhood in Israel, Eyal and his family relocated to the United States for a year and then moved to Hong Kong, where he lived until the age of eight. Upon his return to the United States, his family settled in New York's Westchester County. He attended Byram Hills High School in Armonk with fellow actors Sean Maher and David Harbour. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Career Since arr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ackerman (playwright)
Peter Ackerman is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, television writer, television producer, and author. Career Peter Ackerman began his varied career as an actor in the low budget movie ''Astronomy of Errors'' (2000). He later went on to perform in the Off-Broadway in ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare'' (abridged) and in ''Visiting Mr. Green''. For the stage, Ackerman's debut play, ''Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight'', was performed Off-Broadway in New York and at Soho Repertory Theatre in London. The play became an audio presentation for L.A. Theatre Works and appeared on member National Public Radio stations in North America. He also adapted it for DirecTV as a television series. He was commissioned by NPR to write another radio play, ''I’d Rather Eat Pants'', which was broadcast as a short serial. He also authored the play ''The Urn'' and his revision of the musical ''The Pajama Game'' won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. As a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thurop Van Orman
Mark "Thurop" Ashton Van Orman (born April 26, 1976) is an American cartoonist, animator, voice actor, television writer, producer and director best known for being the creator of Cartoon Network's ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'', in which he voices the title character. Life and career Van Orman was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. Van Orman worked for the video game company Zantaro before going on to study character animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He was the storyboard artist and co-writer for '' Camp Lazlo'', ''The Powerpuff Girls'', and ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy''. He was also the supervising producer for ''Adventure Time'' and served as one for ''Sanjay and Craig'' only in its first season. Thurop is also somewhat known for responding to much of his fans' fan art through the website DeviantArt. He is the director of ''The Angry Birds Movie 2''. Van Orman has a brother named Jonny, from whom he took inspiration to start his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Angry Birds Movie 2
''The Angry Birds Movie 2'' is a 2019 computer-animated action comedy film based on Rovio Entertainment's ''Angry Birds'' video game series, produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, and Rovio Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to ''The Angry Birds Movie'' (2016), the film was directed by Thurop Van Orman and co-directed by John Rice (in their directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Peter Ackerman, Eyal Podell, and Jonathon E. Stewart. Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Tony Hale, Anthony Padilla, Bill Hader, and Peter Dinklage reprise their roles from the first film, with newcomers Leslie Jones, Rachel Bloom, Awkwafina, Sterling K. Brown, Eugenio Derbez, Tiffany Haddish, JoJo Siwa, and Brooklynn Prince joining the ensemble cast. In the film, the birds are forced to team up with the pigs when an advanced weapon led by the eagles threatens both Bird and Piggy Islands. Production on a sequel to ''The Angry Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony. On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation, which would eventually become Columbia Pictures. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968) went public two years later and eventually began to use the image of Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. In its early years, Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood, but began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra. With Capra and others such as the most successful two reel comedy series The Three Stooges, Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Pictures Releasing
Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (commonly known as Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment to manage its motion picture operations. It was launched in 1998 by integrating the businesses of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and TriStar Pictures, Inc. History The Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group was launched in 1998 as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, as a current division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, owned by Sony. It has many of Sony Pictures' current motion picture divisions as part of it. Its divisions at that time were Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Triumph Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and Sony Pictures Releasing. On December 8, 1998, SPE resurrected its former animation and television division Screen Gems as a film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Winder
Catherine Winder is a Canadian digital media producer and executive. Winder served as President of Rainmaker Entertainment from May 12, 2009 to June 30, 2012. Winder is a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and began her film career in Japan, which she later said helped her in adopting anime and manga elements into the ''Clone Wars'' animation style.Lupick, Travis"Clone Wars proved a galactic task for production team."''The Georgia Straight ''The Georgia Straight'' is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Overstory Media Group. Often known simply as ''The Straight'', it is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, ...'', August 21, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-08-21. Notes and references External links *Meet the Producer and Director Of ''The Clone Wars'' at Celebration IVoStarWars.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Vitti
Jon Vitti is an American writer best known for his work on the television series ''The Simpsons''. He has also written for ''King of the Hill'', ''The Critic'' and ''The Office (U.S. TV series), The Office'', and has served as a screenwriter or consultant for several animated and live-action movies, including ''Ice Age (2002 film), Ice Age'' (2002), ''Robots (2005 film), Robots'' (2005), and ''Horton Hears a Who! (film), Horton Hears a Who!'' (2008). He is one of the eleven writers of ''The Simpsons Movie'' and also wrote the screenplays for the film adaptions ''Alvin and the Chipmunks (film), Alvin and the Chipmunks'', Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, its "squeakquel" and ''The Angry Birds Movie''. Career Vitti is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for, and was president with Mike Reiss of, the ''Harvard Lampoon''. He was also very close with Conan O'Brien while at Harvard. Prior to joining ''The Simpsons'', he had a brief stint at ''Saturday Night Live'', d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergal Reilly
Fergal Reilly is an Irish film director, storyboard artist, voice actor and animator best known for directing the animated film ''The Angry Birds Movie''. Early life and career Reilly was born in Ardee, Ireland, and moved to the United States at the age of nineteen. He started working at the Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, and Dale Baer Animation as an animator and story board artist. He was a story artist on the Warner Brothers animated and hybrid movies ''The Iron Giant'', ''Space Jam'', and ''Osmosis Jones''. He is an alumnus of Gormanston College a former boarding school in Ireland where he drew comics, cartoons and caricatures in lieu of any formal art classes. He attended the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology where he initially studied graphic design, but always suspected that he did not want to spend his life "pushing type around reports for banks". Reilly was among the first animation artists to worked on both live-action and animated movies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Kaytis
Clay Kaytis (born March 22, 1973) is an American animator and film director, best known for directing the animated film ''The Angry Birds Movie'' and the Christmas comedy film ''The Christmas Chronicles''. Career Kaytis started his career as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios. His main credits at Disney included ''Tangled'', ''Wreck-It Ralph'', and '' Frozen''. After working nineteen years, he left the studio in 2013. Kaytis made his directing debut with ''The Angry Birds Movie'', which he co-directed with Fergal Reilly for Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film was based on the Rovio Entertainment's video game ''Angry Birds''. Jon Vitti wrote the screenplay for the film, which was released on May 20, 2016. Kaytis then made his live-action directing debut with ''The Christmas Chronicles ''The Christmas Chronicles'' is a 2018 American Christmas comedy film directed by Clay Kaytis from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman. The film stars Kurt Russell, Judah Lewis, Darby C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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