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After working with the studio as a supporting player on two past projects, DreamWorks Animation has picked Seth Rogen as the star for Boo U. The 3D 'toon, which is tentatively scheduled for release sometime in 2012 or '13, sees Rogen playing a spirit that is enrolled in a supernatural school for spooks. There his character has to learn better ways to haunt the living. So it's Casper meets Dangerous Minds?

Rogen's got an established history with DWA so giving him his own animated movie to frontline isn't that much of a leap. He gave his voice to Mantis in Kung-Fu Panda and will reprise the character in the sequel and last year he played B.O.B. in Monsters vs. Aliens. Rogen was also a character in Horton Hears a Who! so making money from doing a 'toon is becoming his second job after live-action projects.

Boo U. was announced by DreamWorks Animation back in 2009 as a late 2012 release. The studio actually has three ghost-themed animated projects in the works, one called Freakers and the other still a mystery. Jon Vitti, writer of The Simpsons Movie, wrote the Boo U. screenplay. Tony Leondis is directing.