It is an international co-production between the Finland and the United States. The sequel to The Angry Birds Movie (2016), the film was directed by Thurop Van Orman (in his directorial debut) and co-directed by John Rice from a screenplay by Peter Ackerman, Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. The deal was closed on 17 August 2023.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. In August 2023, Sega acquired Rovio Entertainment. A recreated version of the original Angry Birds game known as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds came to mobile platforms on 31 March 2022. However, in June 2021, by popular demand of the fans, Rovio announced that the classic games will be available on the stores again sometime in the future. Rovio has declined to explain their reasoning behind the decision apart from a brief tweet and support response, both giving different answers. In early 2019, all remaining Angry Birds games released before October 2014 (with the exception of Friends) were discontinued and removed from app stores, though Bad Piggies was added back in early 2020. The company released ports of the game to other touchscreen smartphone operating systems, including Android. At the time, the 2009 swine flu epidemic was in the news, so the staff decided to use pigs as the enemies of the Angry Birds. The first game in the series was initially released on 11 December 2009 for iOS. The first main-series video game sequel, Angry Birds 2, was released on 30 July 2015. The original Angry Birds has been called 'One of the most mainstream games out right now', 'One of the great runaway hits of 2010', and 'The largest mobile app success the world has seen so far'. † Game has been discontinued and is no longer available.īy July 2015, the series' games had been downloaded more than 3 billion times collectively, making it the most downloaded freemium game series of all time.

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