“The Angry Birds Movie” is based on a wildly popular game for mobile phones and tablets that involves using a digital slingshot to shoot digital flightless birds at fortresses occupied by digital pigs ...

Angry Birds will officially launch—via slingshot—onto the big screen for “The Angry Birds Movie,” starring the voices of comedians Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph and Danny McBride.

Adapting a video game, let alone a mobile app, into a movie is no easy feat, but The Angry Birds Movie was unique in that it had a basic premise and eye-catching characters to go on, but not much else ...