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"Hedge" director in "Nowhereland" with Murphy
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-04-27 16:36

LOS ANGELES- "Over the Hedge" writer/director Karey Kirkpatrick has signed on to direct the Eddie Murphy comedy "Nowhereland."

The Paramount Pictures project centers on a struggling businessman who solves his troubles at work by consulting his 6-year-old daughter and the imaginary world she has created.

Shooting is scheduled to begin September 10.

Kirkpatrick also wrote such family films as "Charlotte's Web" and "Chicken Run," and produced Paramount's upcoming fantasy "The Spiderwick Chronicles."