The story of Benjamin Mee, a British writer who rescued a failing zoo while coming to terms with life as a widower and single father, has been made into a Hollywood film starring Matt Damon Late ...

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Cameron Crowe has signed on to direct "We Bought a Zoo," an adaptation of a memoir by Benjamin Mee, being produced by Julie Yorn. By Borys Kit, The Associated Press Cameron Crowe is returning to ...

Though the film We Bought A Zoo, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, came out over a decade ago, Zoo CEO Benjamin Mee says its still capturing new audiences. When Benjamin moved into the ...

Benjamin Mee had his arm wedged down a storm drain in the middle of a torrential downpour when he heard his mobile ringing. ‘I grabbed it,’ he recalls. ‘It was the American director Cameron ...

We Bought A Zoo is a movie adaptation of Benjamin Mee's memoir about how, after the death of his father, he convinced his mother to sell her Surrey home and buy Dartmoor Zoo which had fallen on ...

When Benjamin Mee first saw Dartmoor Zoo, his wife Katherine was suffering with a rare form of brain cancer and they had two small children. Despite this, the young couple were convinced that they ...

Fox has picked up the rights to "We Bought a Zoo," a memoir by Benjamin Mee, for Julie Yorn to produce. By Borys Kit, The Associated Press Fox has picked up the rights to “We Bought a Zoo,” a ...

He is Benjamin Mee, a California man who buys a wildlife park in a knee-jerk reaction to the loss of his wife, hoping it will strengthen the bonds with his two kids. It's a doolally Disney-esque ...

We Bought a Zoo is based on a true story, and book of the same name by Briton Benjamin Mee. The real Mee bought and moved into a 16-hectare zoo in Devon, England, with his wife, two children ...

Benjamin Mee with his son Milo and daughter Ella at their home, Dartmoor Zoo. Benjamin Mee’s life has been made into a Hollywood movie starring Matt Damon — but the true story is no fairy tale.

Benjamin Mee, chief executive officer at Dartmoor Zoological Society, described Freddo as "beautiful". He said: "I first clapped eyes on him seven years ago at Highland Wildlife Park when he was ...