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 ...

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

Utah-based director Jared Hess is celebrating the global success of "A Minecraft Movie," but he’s also lamenting the end of a chapter closer to home: The Sundance Film Festival’s exit from Park City.

Wētā FX goes lo-fi with a blocky aesthetic in creating Malgosha as a menacing, funny, and tragic villain, modeled after Emperor Palpatine from "Star Wars." ...

It’s weird when you’re having too much fun and the cops get called,” Hess said in a recent interview with Entertainment ...

A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess has opened up on the "really hilarious" scene he was disappointed to leave out of the ...

Glendale-born director Jared Hess is known for his debut film "Napoleon Dynamite." How he stretched his creative legs with "A Minecraft Movie." ...

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 ...

Minecraft is one of the most popular and influential ... inevitably, there’s a movie. Jared Hess, the American film-maker behind the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, was a miner, as the game ...