In a cute piece of Hollywood in-joke casting, the children of Nicole Kidman, Viola Davis and Gal Gadot also have minor speaking roles as the cute hatchling chicks. The sequel moves fruitfully away from this source material by expanding the story’s narrative bandwidth and character count, drawing on a broad list of starry vocal talents including Peter Dinklage, Maya Rudolph, Danny McBride, Nicki Minaj and Awkwafina. Opening everywhere Friday are New Line’s Bruce Springsteen-inspired Blinded by the Light, Universal’s R-rated comedy Good Boys, Entertainment Studio’s sequel 47 Meters Down: Uncaged and Annapurna’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette?Īll of the new entries face competition from a strong gaggle of holdovers, including Hobbs & Shaw, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Lion King.The plot of the first Angry Birds movie at least paid lip service to the original game, with its ballistic battles between the multicolored avian residents of Bird Island, led by short-fuse anti-hero Red ( Jason Sudeikis), and their green-hued porcine enemies on Pig Island, led by boorish Lester ( Bill Hader). The family film is hardly the only new movie hitting theaters this week. He’s best known as creator-star of the Emmy-winning Cartoon Network hit show The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. The story follows the flightless birds and the scheming green piggies as they form an unlikely truce in order to battle a new threat endangering their respective islands.Īngry Birds 2 is helmed by Mark “Thurop” Van Orman in his feature directorial debut. (In a cute piece of casting, the children of Nicole Kidman, Viola Davis and Gal Gadot also have minor speaking roles as the hatchling chicks.) Newcomers to the franchise include Nicki Minaj, Awkwafina, Sterling K. At the same time, the numbers could shift in the days ahead, not to mention that Sony is counting on a long run into September.Īngry Birds 2‘s starry voice cast sees Jason Sudeikis, Maya Rudolph, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, Danny McBride and Peter Dinklage reprise their roles from the film. That’s notably less than the $38.2 million opening of Angry Birds over the May 20-22 weekend in 2016, not adjusted for inflation. Judging by Tuesday’s performance, Angry Birds 2 is headed for a six-day debut of $17 million-plus.

Angry birds friends pink friday