Adult Swim has announced it has picked up Rob Corddry’s hilarious series CHILDRENS HOSPITAL for a second season. Principle photography on fourteen new episodes should begin later this year. Childrens Hospital began as a web series airing exclusively on TheWB. com in 2008, and its popularity led to Adult Swim picking it up. It premiered on the network in July.
In addition to writing and producing, Corddry also stars as, well, clownish Dr. Blake Downs and in the new season he will again be joined by an ensemble cast of comedic heavyweights, including Malin Akerman, Lake Bell, Erinn Hayes, Rob Huebel, Ken Marino, Megan Mullally, and Henry Winkler. Every episode also usually sees a great comedic guest star.
Childrens Hospital explores the emotional struggles and sexual politics of a group of doctors charged with healthy libidos. Their dedication to their personal lives is relentless, interrupted only by the occasional need to treat sick children.
The current season of Childrens Hospital is still airing on Adult Swim Sunday nights at midnight.
Malin Akerman has shot a video for Movember, a fundraising game featuring men growing mustaches for the month of November in order to raise money to help fight prostate cancer.
You can see the video below or help out the cause at Movember.com
“Watchmen” star Malin Akerman and Lauren Ambrose (HBO’s “Six Feet Under”) have been cast alongside Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux in the Universal comedy “Wanderlust,” reports Variety.
David Wain (“Role Models”) directs from a script he co-wrote with Ken Marino, a fellow veteran of MTV’s “The State.” The duo also will produce with Rudd and Judd Apatow, while Dick Vane will exec produce.
Rudd and Aniston star as a married couple who try to escape modern society by leaving their cushy lives in New York.
While it’s unclear what role Akerman will inhabit, the underappreciated Ambrose will play a member of the freewheeling commune that the two stars come into contact with en route to Atlanta.
Ambrose, Rudd and Marino previously starred together in Katherine Dieckmann’s little-seen indie “Diggers.”
Erik Baiers will oversee “Wanderlust” for the studio.
Akerman recently attached herself to the CIA thriller “The Numbers Station,” which star Ethan Hawke is producing, and she’s also set to star opposite Bruce Willis in the thriller “Catch 44.” The actress currently has “The Romantics” in theaters and “The Bang Bang Club” at Toronto.
Ambrose recently voiced a character in “Where the Wild Things Are,” and she also co-starred with Paul Giamatti in the sci-fi indie “Cold Souls.”
Akerman is represented by WME and Sanders Armstrong Caserta Management, while Ambrose is repped by UTA and Kipperman Management.
Malin Akerman will star opposite Ethan Hawke in CIA thriller The Numbers Station, reports Variety.
The film centers on a disgraced black ops agent tasked with a dead-end job of protecting a young woman in the middle of the Nevada desert. The two eventually have to fight to survive after they come under attack.
Kasper Barfoed (The Candidate) will direct the project, written by F. Scott Frazier.
Shooting will start in early 2011.
According to Toronto Life, Malin Akerman is confirmed to be in attendance at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival!
Of course, you will be able to find photos of Malin during the festival here! The festival runs September 9th through September 19th!
Cut to last weekend, when Twelve–which, in their defense, is laughably bad– opened to a brutal $477 per-theater average and savage reviews. A few days later the company received a cease and desist letter after announcing their plans for an animated Terminator film. Now the bad news keeps coming for Hannover House– Deadline reports that happythankyoumoreplease has severed ties with the distributor, and is negotiating a deal with Anchor Bay Films with an eye toward a theatrical release.
Not to pile on to Hannover in their time of trouble, but the happythankyoumoreplease people are totally justified. There hasn’t been the slightest bit of publicity for the film since Sundance, and given how many of the other festival hits have done well this summer– from the comedic Cyrus to the bleak Winter’s Bone– it would have made perfect sense to have happythankyoumoreplease out in theaters by now. It’s not a perfect movie by any stretch, and sometimes feels more like a sitcom than an actual movie, but it’s an obvious crowd pleaser that could easily make the distributor some cash with some decent marketing. In addition to Radnor it stars Malin Akerman, Kate Mara and Zoe Kazan, all of them up-and-comers who could presumably bring in audiences.
Anchor Bay doesn’t have a particularly stellar track record for bringing films into theaters– their latest releases Solitary Man and City Island had unremarkable theatrical runs– but presumably they’ll at least plan to put the film out there. Hopefully Hannover can take advantage of the moment to regroup a bit and figure out where to go from here– and know better than to ever again tangle with a Joel Schumacher indie. That was a mistake they should have seen coming.
From Cinema Blend
The Toronto International Film Festival announced 50 films that movie fans can expect to see this year including 15 Gala Presentations and 35 films to be shown as part of the Special Presentations programme. Some of the movies we’ve been following for a while now include Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, The Town with Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner, Buried with Ryan Reynolds, Easy A with Emma Stone, Never Let Me Go with Cary Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley and Stone with Robert De Niro and Edward Norton. And those are just to name a few.
Some Canadian films we’re looking forward to covering at the Festival include The Bang Bang Club with Ryan Phillippe and Malin Akerman, Barney’s Version with Paul Giamatti and Casino Jack with Kevin Spacey. Continue reading for a complete list of the films announced today and be sure to check back as our TIFF 2010 coverage continues.
Galas
The Bang Bang Club (dir. Steven Silver) Canada/South Africa (World Premiere)
The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise of apartheid. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men – and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures. The film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach.
From Empire Movies