Showbiz people briefs

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - DreamWorks has hired visual effects maven Thor Freudenthal to direct "Hotel for Dogs."

Based on Lois Duncan's novel, the story revolves around two orphaned teenagers who hide dozens of stray dogs in an abandoned hotel.

Freudenthal, a former CG artist who worked on the "Stuart Little" films, is also attached to direct 20th Century Fox's "They Came From Upstairs."

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Danay Garcia has landed a regular role on the Fox's "Prison Break" next season when the drama will be set in a Panama prison.

She will play Sofia, a beautiful Latina living in the central American nation where her boyfriend Whistler (Chris Vance) is incarcerated with Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller).

Garcia and Vance are two of four major new additions to the cast of "Prison Break" next season along with Robert Wisdom, who will play Luchero, an incarcerated Panamanian drug kingpin, and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, who will play Betty Crocker, an operative for the Company, a shadowy government conspiracy organization.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter