The international cast from “The Angry Birds Movie” were in Cannes on May 10 to celebrate the opening of the 69th Cannes Film Festival with a burst of colour on the eve of the film’s global cinematic launch.
The cast includes English-language voice actor Josh Gad (Chuck, in his first animated film since Frozen) as well as Omar Sy (The Intouchables, Inferno, and the voice of Red in France), international TV personality Raya Abirached (who voices Matilda in the Middle East), popular comedian and actor Maccio Capatonda (who voices Red in Italy), comedian Timur Rodriguez (who voices Chuck in Russia) and producer John Cohen.
“The Angry Birds Movie” is a 2016 American-Finnish 3D computer-animated action-adventure comedy film based on the video game series of the same name. It was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly (in their directorial debuts), produced by John Cohen and Catherine Winder, and written by Jon Vitti. The film was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, and stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage. It has been released in theatres by Columbia Pictures globally from May 11, 2016.
