Angry Birds (video game) featured app on the UK App Store in February 2010 and quickly reached No.1 there, it reached the No. 1 spot on the paid apps chart in the US App Store in the middle of 2010 and then stayed there for 275 days. The initial cost to develop "Angry Birds" was estimated to exceed €100,000, not including costs for the subsequent updates. For the iOS version, Rovio partnered with distributor Chillingo to publish the game to the App Store. Chillingo claimed to have participated in final game polishing, such as adding visible trajectory lines, pinch to zoom, pigs' grunts, birds'
The Angry Birds Movie to think of it". In his review for "TheWrap", Alonso Duralde wrote, "Let's be clear, then: "The Angry Birds Movie" isn't pointless because it's based on an app. It's pointless because it's pointless". Stephen Whitty of the "New York Daily News" gave the film one out of five stars, writing, ""The Angry Birds Movie" is just fowl". In August 2016, Rovio had begun working on a sequel to the film. The sequel, titled "The Angry Birds Movie 2", is planned for an August 16, 2019 release, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the original video game. It will be directed