Angry Birds (video game) was being played, the staff liked the characters, and the team elected to design a game around them. In early 2009, physics games, such as "Crush the Castle", were popular flash-based web games, so the Rovio team was inspired by these games. During the development of "Angry Birds", the staff realized the birds needed an enemy. At the time, the "swine flu" epidemic was in the news, so the staff made the birds' enemies pigs. Angry Birds was the studio's 52nd produced game and on its initial release, the game did not sell many copies. After Angry Birds was a
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