Sony has won an auction to produce an animated film based on emoji, according to reports. The motion picture will be co-written by Eric Siegel and Anthony Leondis, and directed by Leondis ...

The Emoji Movie may want to get its crying-face emoji ready — because critics are giving the 91-minute film, out Friday (rated PG for rude humor ), a big thumbs-down. Based in the bustling ...

Any cynicism I might have had about “The Emoji Movie” was knocked away months ago by the film’s very funny trailer, which featured Steven Wright as the morosely indifferent, slightly ...

Early reviews of “The Emoji Movie” are in, and critics, to put it gently, aren’t giving the film a “Thumbs Up.” Critics offered generally unfavorable reviews for the Tony Leondis ...

It strains its way into existence, joylessly and illogically limping on until it reaches 87 minutes, so it can fulfil its brief of being about emoji and, technically, a film. Emoji offer no story ...

“The Emoji Movie” debuts head-to-head at the box office this weekend with Charlize Theron’s action flick “Atomic Blonde” and faces competition from “Dunkirk” and “Girls Trip.

Currently, that puts the film below Norm of the North, which ended up at 9%, and slightly above Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie at 5%. It’s not just that critics disliked Emoji Movie, the level of vitriol ...