It might be hard to admit whilst thinking of his smug mug, but there’s no denying that Ricky Gervais has a bit of a magic touch… The Office star has only just finished his feature directorial debut, The Invention of Lying, and now Universal-based Illumination Entertainment has snapped up the rights to his children’s book series Flanimals for a 3-D animated feature about a world inhabited by several species of creatures so ugly and deformed they become cute and cuddly. Read the full story
