Alfred Hitchcock Hitchcock had intended to film "Marnie" first, and in March 1962 it was announced that Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco since 1956, would come out of retirement to star in it. When Kelly asked Hitchcock to postpone "Marnie" until 1963 or 1964, he recruited Evan Hunter, author of "The Blackboard Jungle" (1954), to develop a screenplay based on a Daphne du Maurier short story, "The Birds" (1952), which Hitchcock had republished in his "My Favorites in Suspense" (1959). He hired Tippi Hedren to play the lead role. It was her first role; she had been a model in New
The Angry Birds Movie topped the home video sales chart for the week ending on August 21, 2016. "The Angry Birds Movie" grossed $107.5 million in North America and $244.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $352.3 million. Worldwide, it is the second highest-grossing video game film of all-time behind "Warcraft" ($433.5 million), and is the most successful Finnish-produced film of all time. "Deadline Hollywood" calculated the net profit of the film to be $72 million. In North America, the film opened on May 20, 2016 alongside "" and "The Nice Guys", and was projected to gross between $35–40 million or