The popular 1938 children's book "
Mr. Popper's Penguins" finally is marching toward the big screen, with Jim Carrey starring as a businessman who inherits a flock of penguins.
In the book, a house painter who dreams of traveling writes a letter to Admiral Drake, who answers him on a radio show and then sends him a penguin captured near the South Pole. Then he gets a second penguin, and that leads to a dozen more and chaos at the painter's house.