Utah-based director Jared Hess is celebrating the global success of "A Minecraft Movie," but he’s also lamenting the end of a ...

Minutes executive producer Bill Owens has resigned amid mounting pressure on Paramount Global to settle a $20 billion lawsuit ...

Jared Hess (“Napoleon Dynamite,” “Nacho Libre”) speaks to how his oddball sensibilities helped make “A Minecraft Movie” such ...

A Minecraft Movie' director Jared Hess unpacks 'Napoleon Dynamite,' working with Jack Black on 'Nacho Libre,' and more on ...

A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess has opened up on the "really hilarious" scene he was disappointed to leave out of the film's final cut. Ahead of the movie's April 4 release, I sat down with Hess ...

Wētā FX goes lo-fi with a blocky aesthetic in creating Malgosha as a menacing, funny, and tragic villain, modeled after ...

Even a child is unlikely to be entertained by the film’s stream of Minecraft in-jokes—but fans of the director Jared Hess may ...

Warner Bros' take on Mojang Studios' universally popular Minecraft sandbox video game benefitted from the use of other forms of technology, though. There was one particular piece of virtual reality ...

When filmmaker Jared Hess got interested in making a movie based on the open-ended video game “Minecraft,” there was a major stumbling block: “There’s no story to the game.” ...

A Minecraft Movie” is a perfectly calibrated light entertainment. At certain points, it reminded me of that mid’-80s run of ...

The movie’s director, Utah resident Jared Hess, told The Salt Lake Tribune that the antics in the videos are “pretty on point for some farm-boy shenanigans.” The videos shot at the Cinemark ...

Spike Lee has dolly shots, New York settings, and fourth-wall breaks. And Jared Hess has tots, llamas, and frequent use of “friggin.’” Jack Black as Steve, Danielle Brooks as Dawn ...