James Marsden and Malin Akerman are reuniting on screen, and they’ll probably get to make out this time around. The “27 Dresses” co-stars did not play romantic partners in the 2008 Katherine Heigl rom-com, but as Screen Daily reports today, the two will co-star in another romantic comedy, “Something for Your Birthday”. Parlay Films will be in Cannes to sell international rights.
TV director Michael Engler makes his directorial debut on the project, from a screenplay by Susan Walter. Akerman stars as a fashion designer who struggles to maintain a successful career and love life after turning 30.
Marsden, as charming and likable as he is, should have a better career than the one he has. After breaking out playing teenagers in films like “Gossip” and “Disturbing Behavior” over a decade ago, Marsden has struggled for leading man status, with “27 Dresses” perhaps his most commercially successful star turn, though he was part of the ensemble (and criminally underused) of Bryan Singer’s original “-Men” trilogy. He’ll head to New Mexico next month to film indie drama “As Cool as I Am” opposite Claire Danes. Akerman is a bit busier, currently filming “Medallion” opposite Nicholas Cage and recently landing a plum role opposite Tom Cruise in “Rock of Ages”.
Malin Akerman, who will be seen in the upcoming motion pictures “Medallion,” “Wanderlust” and “Bang Bang Club,” has been cast in the Warner Bros./New Line feature film Rock of Ages, according to Deadline.com.
Akerman will play the role of journalist Constance, who plans to write an expose on rocker Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise). She and Cruise will duet on the Foreigner song “I Want To Know What Love Is.”
Adam Shankman will direct and choreograph the film, which, according to a previous Variety report, will begin shooting May 19 in Florida.
The film will also feature Russell Brand as Lonny, Diego González Boneta as Drew, Alec Baldwin as Dennis, Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian, Mary J. Blige as Justice, Paul Giamatti as the manager of the rock band, Bryan Cranston as The Mayor and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the wife of the mayor. The motion picture, based on the Broadway musical of the same name, will arrive in movie theatres around the country June 1, 2012.
Bleeding Cool has confirmed with the film’s producers that Jim Sturgess and Malin Akerman are attached to star in Wildwood Inn, the directorial debut of actor Christopher McDonald.
You’ll most likely know McDonald from Requiem For a Dream, Sturgess starred (and was superb) in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, and Akerman was in Watchmen. Two out of three ‘aint bad.
The script for Wildwood Inn was written by Jon & Lisa Vandergriff. Here’s its logline: “When two young couples dissatisfied with their marriages discover they both stay in the same mountain cabin each year, at alternate times, they begin to explore relationships outside of their marriage via the cabin’s welcome journal.”
So, it’s a bit like The Lake House but without the supernatural goings on? Sure sounds like it.
Lots about the film is still under wraps, including the names of the two other leads.
UPDATE: Jim Sturgess’ reps have told us that he is not attached to the project, despite the film’s producers yesterday telling me – plain and simply – that he is “attached”. Something somewhere has gotten lost in translation, but I can assure you it wasn’t at Bleeding Cool’s end of the line.
So, to clarify: The producers say Jim is attached; his publicity representative says that he is not.
The biopic “Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story” has been in and out of pre-production for awhile, mainly having to do with the casting choice of a wayward young actress. Those troubles quickly disappeared the minute they chose Malin Akerman to play the adult film star turned anti-porn advocate in the Matthew Wilder feature.
In the middle of an interview for her upcoming film “Happythankyoumoreplease,” the actress was kind enough to give us a better look on the overall story line for the project.
“I’m very excited to start filming ["Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story"]. As of right now we’re supposed to be shooting in April.
“The movie is sort of behind-the-scenes on her life with her husband and what the relationship was like. It was pretty torturous, he physically beat her quite a bit and had a gun to her head many times and forced her into prostitution.
“It’s a very emotional journey with the film being very much a biography of her life, or an interpretation of it. We go maybe four years of her life until she becomes an anti-porn advocate. So it’s a really intense and dark movie, for me anyways. It’s a very exciting and nerve-wracking challenge.”
You can watch Malin Akerman shine on the big screen in Josh Radnor’s “Happythankyoumoreplease,” out in limited theaters this Friday.
Malin Akerman is in negotiations to play the female lead opposite Nicolas Cage in Medallion, a Nu Image/Millennium Films action thriller directed by Simon West.
The story, with shades of Taken, follows a father — a former master thief — who has only a few hours to find his daughter when she is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a New York medallion taxi cab.
Akerman will play Cage’s former girlfriend and former bank robber who agrees to help him save his daughter.
David Guggenheim wrote the script. Matthew Joynes and Jesse Kennedy of Aurelius are producing as is McG via Wonderland Sound and Vision. James Holt (Men Who Stare at Goats) is also producing.
Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Cassian Elwes are exec producing. Wonderland’s Mary Viola is also exec producing.
The movie will shoot in New Orleans starting in mid-March.
Akerman’s recent credits include Watchmen and Couples Retreat, and she is one of the stars of Josh Radnor’s feature directorial debut, HappyThankYouMorePlease, which opens in March. She is repped by WME and Sanders Armstrong Caserta Management.
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