Sony gets Kelly Asbury on "Pooch Cafe"

   Sony just releasing The Smurfs and hiring Horrible Bosses writers to do Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, now with a new project. Pooch Cafe based on a comic strip by Paul Gilligan will be made into a movie by Gnomeo and Juliet writer/director Kelly Asbury. Also he co-directed Dreamworks Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron also Shrek 2. He did other films as will as Toy Story, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
    The film is about a Poncho, a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, toilet-drinking mutt who joins his canine friends at the Pooch Café, a neighborhood hangout where dogs can be dogs and compare notes on such weighty issues as avoiding baths, zebra-flavored kibble, and the construction of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the world's cats into the sun.
     "Kelly's wit and cinematic sensibility pairs wonderfully with the irreverent characters and wry comedy in the "Pooch Café" comic strip," said SPA's production prexy Michelle Raimo-Kouyate. "We've been looking for something to do with Kelly, and this was a perfect match."