What does Jared Hess' career say about A Minecraft Movie? Hess's current filmography makes him an interesting choice for A Minecraft Movie. He's worked with a lot of the other talent on the project.

After living a mostly low-key career after he and wife Jerusha launched with the Sundance sensation Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, director Jared Hess has come roaring back with A Minecraft Movie, a ...

Jared Hess didn’t know what to expect when his first feature film, a movie about a lanky, Tater Tot-loving teen, made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

Hess ponders ringing that elusive zeitgeist bell twice, why a Minecraft sequel is so much more plausible than Napoleon Dynamite 2 and why the movie overperformed when so many game-based films fail.

Before the massive success of A Minecraft Movie, Jared Hess and Jack Black teamed up for the wrestling comedy Nacho Libre, and it's even better.

Jared Hess is losing sleep due to all the audience reaction videos he's seen for his latest film, A Minecraft Movie — but in a good way. The director's wife keeps having to tell him to put the phone ...

Jared Hess's death hit hard Friday night, real hard. On the eve of this season's first Lehigh-Lafayette men's basketball clash, one of the Mountain Hawks' finest players succumbed to leukemia. He ...

Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Jared Hess talks to the press at the premiere of ÒDon VerdeanÓ at Eccles Theater, at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015.

However, Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess denies he’d ever heard the name. In contrast, Costello says that can’t be the case.

Hess’ credits include indie hit “Napoleon Dynamite.” His next film “Masterminds,” starring Kristen Wiig and Zack Galifianakis, will be released by Relativity on Aug. 7.

Jared Hess: It’s really just a collection of people, and experiences that I had growing up, and it’s not based on any particular person but a lot of who he is came from myself and mainly my ...

JARED HESS: I mean yeah, definitely this particular saga had a lot of very charismatic personalities from across the spectrum. Jerry Dalea, one of the chief investigators, is just so entertaining ...