Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a motion picture.
Jenno Topping . She is best known for producing films Doctor Dolittle ( 1998 ) , Charlie 's Angels ( 2000 ) , St. Vincent ( 2014 ) , Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children ( 2016 ) and Hidden Figures ( 2016 ) , which earned her an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination with Donna Gigliotti , Peter Chernin , Pharrell Williams , and Theodore Melfi . Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children is a 2016 American dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by Jane Goldman , based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs . The film premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin , Texas on September 25 , 2016 and was theatrically released in the United States on September 30 , 2016 by 20th Century Fox .