Career
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. 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 make and 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 world wide total of $110,011,106, making it a success due to its small budget.
Edwards co-wrote Hoodwinked 2: 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. They started to talk with Cory about the possibility of him rewriting the script for the sequel to Dark Crystal, however instead they agreed that he would write and direct a feature length version of Fraggle Rock.
Edwards is the co-writer of Escape from Planet Earth an animated alien adventure directed by Tony Leech produced by Brian Inerfeld, Jon Shestack, Ed Jones, Preston Stutzman and Greg Little and being released by The Weinstein Company in January 2010.
Edwards created the webseries Roger Cosmonkey, which has been self described as the first ever Twitter series.
He is also the creator and star of the internet cartoon series "Krogzilla" on Shut Up Cartoons.
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