In fact, it’s a sophisticated, clever adaptation of a French film featuring a cute collection of stuffed mice, a blind fencer and a bird that eats out of a man’s mouth.

The movie begins charmingly enough. It ends nearly as well. The Beatles’ lilting “Fool on the Hill” plays as staged scenes of stuffed mice go by, each more delicately wrought than the one ...

DreamWorks Animation is in final negotiations for the movie rights to Jerry Hawthorne’s board game “Mice and Mystics,” Variety has learned exclusively. Alexandre Aja attached to direct and ...