At the Newport Beach Film Festival, a short film title “Bye Bye Sally” premiered and it features Malin in the lead. Check out some information about the short below!
Paul Leyden’s Bye Bye Sally, which is based on Lisa Mannetti’s short story “Everybody Wins,” told the tale of a depressed young woman (Malin Akerman) who was about to end it all when she come across a service that allowed her to take one of humanity’s scumbags with her. That adage about everyone being good at something proved true.
From OC Weekly
Malin is nominated for a “Guys Choice” Awards this year! She is up against Olivia Wilde for the “Hot N’ Fresh” Award. Voting is now open at www.guyschoice.spike.com – so make sure you vote for Malin!
The show will premiere on Spike TV Sunday, June 21st at 10 PM, ET/PT. The actual taping of the awards will be on Saturday, May 30th at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles. 
Malin and Watchmen are up for some MTV Movie Awards which airs on May 31st at 9PM ET. I’ve listed the awards Malin and Watchmen are up for as well as linked to the categories to vote, so get over there and get voting to support Malin!
Best Movie: Watchmen
Best Female Performance: Watchmen
Best Kiss: Malin & Patrick Wilson in Watchmen
Best Fight: Malin & Patrick Wilson vs. Prison Thugs in Watchmen
I just wanted to post to let you all what’s going on behind-the-scenes at Malin Akerman Source.
I’m currently working on finishing up the layout that my good friend Dora created for the site. Once that’s completed I’ll put it live for everyone to see! 
We have a new member of staff here, her name is Melissa and she used to work on Malin Akerman Fan. She decided that merging her site with ours would be more beneficial to fans – so that’s what we’re doing… We want Malin Akerman Source to be the ultimate fan site for Malin – so the more working on it – the better for you all!
I know updates have been sort of slow as of late – but that just means we’re working on the site! Malin is currently in South Africa filming “The Bang Bang Club”, so that’s why there isn’t really any news about her lately. You can check out some news articles under this post to catch up on how filming is going and I’ll continue to update with articles as they surface.
Basically, I hope to get the full site completed and ready for everyone by in about a week and half!
Down-to-earth Hollywood star taking her cues from our photo editor
HOLLYWOOD actress Malin Akerman spent an afternoon at The Times’ Johannesburg offices yesterday shadowing pictures editor Robin Comley, on whom the character she is playing in the film version of The Bang Bang Club is based.
The down-to-earth sex symbol, who stars in the film Watchmen which is currently playing in local cinemas, said of meeting Comley: “It feels so surreal — it’s like meeting an idol.
“I just want to take it all in,” she said, adding that this was the first time she had met the real-life character she will be playing.
‘‘I’ve had this role in my head for a year and a half.’’
Akerman chose to spend time in the office instead of going to Soweto with the “boys” — fellow cast members Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch — who went on a tour of the township guided by veteran struggle photographer Alf Kumalo.
Kumalo, who will play himself in the film, worked for 52 years as a press photographer, capturing iconic images of heavyweight legend Muhammad Ali, reggae star Bob Marley and former ANC president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli.
“It’s a real honour to be able to play myself in a film. Even Mandela has never played himself,” joked Kumalo.
He features in the book, which documents the experiences of four South African news photographers who shot the political violence in the run-up to the first democratic elections in 1994.
Two members of the “club” are dead — Ken Oosterbroek was killed in a gun battle in Thokoza and Kevin Carter committed suicide.
Photographers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva wrote the book in which they pay tribute to their friends.
Kumalo recalls telling Oosterbroek and Carter “not to rush and be too wild because the situations in the townships were very dangerous”.
Kumalo, part of a previous generation of war photographers, also covered the June 1976 Soweto uprising, the forced removals from Sophiatown, the Treason Trial and the Rivonia Trial.
He was harassed, assaulted and detained by apartheid police.
“I will be spending a lot of time with the actors as I am taking them to my museum and to Mandela’s house in Soweto,” he said.
From The Times
Actors being shown the ropes by photographers who lived the experience
Phillippe is starring in the film about four South African photographers who covered the bloody political violence in the country’s townships in the run up to the 1994 elections.
Playing the role of Greg Marinovich, Phillippe was on a tour of Thokoza township, east of Johannesburg on Saturday, with fellow cast members Frank Rautenbach, who plays Ken Oosterbroek, Neels van Jaarsveld, who plays Joao Silva, and Malin Akerman, who plays picture editor Robin Comley.
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Filming started on Saturday and many scenes are set on Thokoza’s Khumalo Street, which separated IFP-supporting hostel residents from their ANC-aligned neighbours.
From The Times
Right now there is a Hollywood movie being made of the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots of a Hidden War (to read a chapter, go here) that was written by two surviving members Pulitzer prize-winner Greg Marinovich and now New York Times photographer Joao Silva. The story is a compelling one of great and fraught friendships, of bravery in the face of enormous dangers, camaraderie, survival and of a shared determination to tell the story of South Africa through their photographs, no matter the cost. And it was steep. Ken Oosterbroek was shot dead in Tokoza (an East Rand township) in 1994 while Kevin Carter Carter committed suicide that year soon after winning a Pulitzer prize for a photograph that became a great source of controversy.
The movie will start Hollywood A-listers like Ryan Phillipe and Malin Akerman — who was in The Times office a few days ago to catch up with the character she is playing, extremely talented and supremely gorgeous photo editor Robin Comley.
From The Times