Popular video game "Angry Birds" will be coming to a big screen near you in July 2016 as Sony has announced that they have acquired the worldwide rights to the ubiquitous game franchise.
The 3-D CG-animated movie will be developed and financed by Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish gaming company that created "Angry Birds." John Cohen, who most recently produced Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures' "Despicable Me," will produce.
"There's definitely an opportunity to make that transition from game to movie," says Bruce Nash, box office analyst for the Numbers website. "The name recognition will get people to watch the trailer. Of course, if it just looks like its 90 minutes of birds crashing into things, then there might be a problem."
"Angry Birds," which would mark the first time an app has made the leap from mobile device to movie theaters, has been downloaded over 1.7 billion times between the actual game and its offshoots.
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