Popular mobile game are all set to hit the big screen in 3D. Sony Pictures has announced an animated 'Angry Birds' film, which is expected be released in 2016. An animated TV series based on the game debuted in March 2013 and was an instant hit with fans. ...
01:13 PM, May 16, 2013
Los Angeles: The popular mobile game 'Angry Birds' is jumping off smart phones and onto the big screen in a new animated 3D film due to be released in 2016, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced on Wednesday. The film will be a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Finnish game-maker Rovio, and follows the game's foray into television with an animated weekly series that began in March 2013. "Sony impressed...
09:01 AM, May 16, 2013
The makers of Angry Birds are launching a cartoon series this weekend, expanding further beyond its highly addictive games in a bid to expand entertainment and merchandising. ...
11:01 AM, Mar 13, 2013
The film is to be directed by Aji John who is currently filming 'Hotel California' with Anoop Menon. ...
12:04 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The hunting of endangered houbara bustards by members of Arab royal families in Pakistan has led to friction along the Indo-Pak frontier, with the BSF complaining about the firing, a media report said on Wednesday. The hunting in border regions has "caused friction with neighbouring India", The Express Tribune reported. ...
01:51 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Angry Birds, Instagram and Facebook continued to be among the most downloaded apps of the year but rising stars also earned coveted spots on smartphones and tablets. ...
10:44 AM, Jan 01, 2013
The book is about hope and maybe the understanding that at the end of the day it is all about what it is to be human - in times of war and peace. ...
05:32 PM, Dec 13, 2012
After celebrating its third anniversary yesterday, fan-favourite arcade game 'Angry Birds' announced that it would have its own feature film. ...
03:43 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: The immensely popular Angry Birds game has yet another new version. The latest edition of the game is called Angry Birds Star Wars. According to Rovio within 2.5 hours of the game's launch, the app soared to No 1 position in the US App Store. The Finnish gaming company goes on to declare that Angry Birds Star Wars is their "biggest and best launch yet." The game is...
06:54 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed visuals of shocking massacre of tens of thousands of migratory Amur falcons in Nagaland. The NGO, Conservation India, has documented the slaughter. The NGO has estimated that 12,000 to 14,000 birds are being hunted for consumption and commercial sale every day. The captured birds are kept in mosquito nets or cane baskets, so they can be sold alive. This is probably the single largest congregation...
01:37 PM, Nov 08, 2012
In the words of Alfred Hitchcock, 'Blondes make the best victims'. But while the great British director's preference for blondes has been documented, new film 'The Girl' narrows in on one particular obsession - actress Tippi Hedren, whom he handpicked to star in his 1960s movies 'The Birds' and 'Marnie'. The film, premiering on Saturday on U.S. cable channel HBO, offers a cinematic tale of Hedren's version of how Hitchcock,...
01:16 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Rare bird species like the Red-necked Phalarope (Pambarakkada) and a tiny wader that swims in open sea have been sighted during the first pelagic bird expedition in southern Kerala. Red-necked Phalarope was recorded in Neendakara in Kollam district for the first time in the Kerala coast, a release said here on Wednesday. Streaked Shearwater (Varayan Thiravetti), another rare bird, was recorded twice by bird-watchers who participated in the event,...
12:53 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Helsinki: Angry Birds-maker Rovio Entertainment will be hoping to prove it's no one-hit wonder when it launches Bad Piggies on Thursday, just as players seem to be tiring of the game they've been addicted to for the past three years. The new game will feature pigs which strike back at the birds who attacked them with slingshots in Angry Birds. A hit on app stores would give the Finnish company...
07:01 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Bangalore: Spread over an area of 150 acres in North Bangalore, Hebbal lake is the success story of a conserved water body that faced lot of controversies and issues pertaining to its rejuvenation and maintenance. But, today it is a haven for a large number of migratory birds. Serving as a nesting ground for many a species, however, this time, the winged visitors have made a late entry to the...
02:01 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: Popular games from Rovio Entertainment - "Angry Birds" and "Angry Birds Space" - will be available for Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS when it ships on October 26 this year. Besides, the company announced the first wave of Xbox games for its highly-awaited Windows 8 OS. The fruit-slicing game "Fruit Ninja" from Halfbrick Studios is another popular game that will be available at the time of the Windows...
02:46 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: Rovio Mobile, makers of the popular mobile game - Angry Birds, is all set to take the birds to the next level. Rovio has released a brand new campaign for its Angry Birds Space installment. The Angry Birds Space will now feature new missions which carry on the fight between the birds and the green pigs who have hijacked the Curiosity Mars rover and are using it to...
03:11 PM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Kite flying, especially on Independence Day, may be a tradition, but it leaves hundreds of birds dead every year. However, now they have some hope as two brothers from Old Delhi have become their saviours. Nadeem Shehzaad and his NGO 'Wildlife Rescue' have treated over three thousand injured birds in the last eight years. Nadeem blames the use of the maanjha - or the glass-coated string used in...
08:17 AM, Aug 21, 2012
Beverly Hills: Tippi Hedren said she survived working with Alfred Hitchcock, but her career was another matter. Hedren's experience on the famed British film director's The Birds and Marnie is dramatised in the new HBO movie, The Girl. Hitchcock is portrayed as obsessed with Hedren and vindictive when the actress rejects his advances. The director "ruined my career, but he didn't ruin my life," Hedren told a meeting of the...
12:52 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Bangalore: Popularly known as Black Kites and formerly as Pariah kites, the Milvus migrans is today a creature of the urban milieu, swooping and hovering over dead carcasses and inedible animal parts and inhabiting the densely populated areas of the city which has a high concentration of slaughterhouses, butcher shops and meat markets. A bird of the urban landscape, the Pariah Kites are basically scavengers, feeding mainly on carnivorous food....
01:52 PM, Jul 12, 2012
