We Bought a Zoo

Release Date: 2010
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Synopsis: Tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside.



Aline Brosh McKenna For 'Zoo' Trip

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Aline Brosh McKenna has been stocking up on the Purell. The "27 Dresses" screenwriter is penning "We Bought a Zoo" for Fox. The studio picked up the rights to Benjamin Mee's memoir in February for former Firm exec Julie Yorn to produce. Read more...

Fox To Adapt 'We Bought A Zoo'

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Fox has picked up the rights to "We Bought a Zoo," a memoir by Benjamin Mee, for Julie Yorn to produce. "Zoo," published by Weinstein Books in September, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Read more...