Fox obviously disagrees with W.C. Fields' admonition never to work with animals. It's a veritable zoo over in Century City.
The studio has signed director Tom Dey to develop a big-screen adaptation of "
Marmaduke." Brad Anderson created the decades-running newspaper comic strip, about a mischievous Great Dane who lives with the Winslow family, in 1954. The big dog then appeared in several animated episodes of "Heathcliff" and "Garfield and Friends."