Coming Soon indicates a film starring Opus is in the works with a release date set for December 19, 2008. Opus the penguin first appeared in the early 1980s in the satiric daily comic strip Bloom County, then in the Sunday-only strip Outland, and now in his own eponymously titled newspaper strip. The film will be written and directed by Bloom County’s comic artist Berkeley Breathed (rhymes with “method”). The movie is also mentioned at Market Wire, which refers to other Weinstein Company future releases such as a Hoodwinked sequel known as Hood vs. Evil.