Penguin Peeper

Carla Gugino has joined the film adaptation of Richard & Florence Atwater's beloved 1938 children's book "Mr. Popper's Penguins" says Variety.

Sean Anders and John Morris, ("Sex Drive") adapted the story which Jared Stern re-wrote. It follows Mr. Popper (Jim Carrey), a house painter whose dreams of Arctic exploration prompt him to write letters to real explorers. One of them sends him a penguin, which he keeps in the icebox.

Before he knows it, the painter has a litter of twelve beaked birds. They eat voraciously, leading him to form Popper's Performing Penguins, a stage act that goes on tour and creates mayhem at every stop

Mark Waters (Mean Girls, The Spiderwick Chronicles) is directing what John Davis is producing.

Production kicks off net month in New York.