After living a mostly low key career after he and wife Jerusha launched with the Sundance sensation Napoleon Dynamite in 2004 ...

PRESTON - Jared Hess, a native of Preston, recently directed a new mind-blowing movie, A Minecraft Movie, which has taken the ...

Hess, the film-maker behind the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, on his love of Minecraft, working with Jack Black and making a ...

It was just such a fun time. Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess Q: Were there any ideas that you had, that you really loved that didn't make it into the final cut? A: Oh yeah. I mean, we could have made ...

Utah filmmaker Jared Hess, who directed "Napoleon Dynamite," takes on his first big-budget special effects movie with "A ...

The director seems to carry the spirit of the indie film with him — even as he takes on a blockbuster. The offbeat humor and overall character of "Napoleon Dynamite" that won Sundance over 21 years ...

Jared Hess, the quirky mind behind “Napoleon Dynamite” and a proud son of Utah’s indie film scene, is trading tots for ...

"I just love 'em, man," director Jared Hess replied when asked why the film chose piglins as the main antagonists of "A Minecraft Movie" instead of something more obvious. In-game, piglins only ...

This live-action adventure, directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), levels up the sandbox game’s pixelated chaos into a big-screen spectacle. The plot? A ragtag group of humans gets zapped ...

Glendale-born writer and director Jared Hess came out swinging with his first feature film, 2004's "Napoleon Dynamite," which became a cult classic. Over the years, Hess has gone on to write and ...