Just a few weeks after announcing hundreds of layoffs, Finnish game maker Rovio has revealed the first teaser trailer for its Angry Birds Movie, animated by Sony Imageworks in Vancouver.
Rovio is betting the bank on this film, investing $110 million of its own money to make a Hollywood-style animated feature. Industry veterans Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, both first-time directors, are helming the project, and Jon Vitti (The Simpsons, The Office, The Larry Sanders Show) wrote the screenplay.
The results: so far, so good. This film clearly is not the trainwreck that many observers had anticipated.