Cory Edwards
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The ThumbScore for Cory Edwards (75.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 2 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Cory's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Cory Edwards (born August 21, 1968) is an American film director, screenwriter, and stand-up comedian. He is best known for directing, co-writing, and voice acting in Hoodwinked (2005), and for co-writing and voice acting in the 2011 sequel Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil. He is the older brother of screenwriter/director Todd Edwards and film producer Katie Hooten.
Cory Edwards was born on August 21, 1968, in Anderson, Indiana, to James L. Edwards and Deanna Monteith. Cory, Todd, and their younger sister Katie showed an interest in the arts from an early age. They would put on puppet shows and plays and used a tape recorder to create their own radio shows. Cory was around seven or eight years old when they first started experimenting with their family's Super 8 video camera. Their first film, succinctly titled Movie Stuff, did not have a plot and was simply a chance for them to learn how to use the camera and try out special effects.
In the early 1990s, he hosted a Christian music video show, Signal Exchange, on INSP network. Cory Edwards acted in his brother Todd's 1999 film Chillicothe. Private investor Maurice Kanbar enjoyed the film and eventually offered to finance them to make an animated fairy tale told in a contemporary style. He directed a 2003 direct-to-video Christian short film A Wobots Christmas. Cory, Todd, and their friend Tony Leech decided to make a film of Little Red Riding Hood told in the context of a police investigation.
However, once their film was finished, Maurice Kanbar was not in the financial position to distribute it, so he took it to the newly formed Weinstein Company, which agreed to buy the film. The film, titled Hoodwinked!, was released in late 2005 in order to be eligible for award consideration and then received a wider release in January 2006. Hoodwinked! received mixed reviews and made a worldwide total of $110,011,106, making it a success due to its small budget. Edwards co-wrote Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs. Evil alongside his Hoodwinked! co-creators and co-writers Tony Leech and Todd Edwards. Despite Hoodwinked's mediocre reviews, many people at the Jim Henson Company enjoyed the film.
Born 1968-08-21 in Anderson, Indiana, USA.
On ThumbScore, Cory Edwards appears in 3 films with an average audience score of 75.0%, most frequently in the Animation genre.
