Early Man

Early Man is a 2018 British stop-motion animated historical sports comedy film directed by Nick Park, the creator of Wallace & Gromit, written by Mark Burton and James Higginson, and starring the voices of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, and Timothy Spall. The film follows a tribe of primitive Stone Age valley dwellers, who have to defend their land from bronze-using invaders in a football match.

The movie was produced by Aardman Animations and BFI, and was released on 26 January 2018 in the United Kingdom, and in the United States on 16 February 2018. The film received positive reviews from critics, but was a box office disappointment, grossing just $54 million against its $50 million budget.