According to Variety, Fox has signed director Tim Hill to helm its sequel to family comedy Garfield: The Movie.

Hill's directing credits include kidpics Max Keeble's Big Move and Muppets in Space.

Hill was a writer on Nick Films' SpongeBob SquarePants Movie; he and Tim Rubiner sold Game Over, an animated comedy pitch, to Warner Bros.

Hill also amassed numerous writing, directing and producing credits for Nickelodeon on such shows as "One Hundred Deeds of Eddie McDowd" and "Action League Now." At Comedy Central, Hill was the writer-director of half-hour comedy "Exit 57."

Fox received a solid performance last summer from Garfield, based on the long-running comic strip and produced by Davis Entertainment, with $75 million domestically and $114 million in foreign markets. John Davis produced the live-action/CGI pic with Pete Hewitt directing, Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitttoplining and Bill Murray voicing Garfield.

Dont't forget to also check out: Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties

Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties was released June 16th, 2006 and stars Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly, Bill Murray, Ian Abercrombie, Roger Rees, Lucy Davis, Lena Cardwell. The film is directed by Tim Hill.