Mr. Popper’s Penguins, the film adaptation of the 1938 children’s book written by Richard and Florence Atwater, has been shooting the last few days on Montgomery Place in Park Slope.
The film stars Jim Carrey and is directed by Mark Water, who directed Mean Girls. The cinematographer, Florian Balhaus, is a resident of Park Slope. The film, which also stars Carla Guigno, Angela Lansbury, Philip Baker Hall and Madeline Carroll, has been shooting for the last two months at Steiner Studios in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn.
It is my understanding that the film is quite different from the beloved book. The script follows what happens when a businessman inherits six penguins and his New York apartment becomes a winter wonderland and his career starts to fall apart.