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 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