Wall St. Journal 7/29/05 page W6
"....Meanwhile, Disney has it's own project in development, an animated movie based on "Mr. Popper's Penguins", a 60 year old children's book about a housepainter who ends up managing a troupe of performing birds. Elena Tropp, one of the writers, describes it as "a Ben Affleck romance comedy except with penguins"......"