Nothing complicates friendship like love in the entertaining and moving film THE ROMANTICS, arriving just in time for Valentine’s Day on DVD February 8, 2011 from Paramount Home Entertainment. Featuring an all-star cast including Katie Holmes (Batman Begins), Academy Award® winner Anna Paquin (“True Blood”), Josh Duhamel (Transformers), Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings), Adam Brody (“The O.C.”), Malin Akerman (Watchmen), Dianna Agron (“Glee”) and Candice Bergen (“Boston Legal”), THE ROMANTICS follows seven college friends who reunite for the wedding of two of their own. But things become complicated when feelings are rekindled between the groom (Duhamel) and the maid of honor (Holmes). Directed by Galt Niederhoffer and based on her acclaimed novel, the film takes a contemporary look at the boundaries of friendship, the power of rivalry and the transformative effects of love.
THE ROMANTICS DVD includes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film, including interviews with the cast and filmmakers. The DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.99 U.S.
THE ROMANTICS DVD is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 televisions with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The disc includes a behind-the scenes featurette.
Malin Akerman (Couples Retreat, Watchmen, 27 Dresses) is now confirmed to replace Lindsay Lohan in Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story. from director/writer Matthew Wilder’s script which made the 2008 Black List. “My understanding is that Lindsay was dropped as she’s impossible to insure and the producers loved Malin,” an insider emails. Malin’s upcoming credits include Wanderlust (Paul Rudd, Jen Aniston), Happythankyoumoreplease (Josh Radnor) and The Bang Bang Club (Taylor Kitsch, Ryan Philippe). She is also attached to star opposite Ethan Hawke in The Numbers Station. The Lovelace project (we really need another after Brian Grazer did one?) is based on the novel Ordeal: An Autobiography by Linda Lovelace with Mike McGrady. The producers include Chris Hanley of Muse Productions and Jordan Gertner.
Tribeca Film has snapped up U.S. rights to “The Bang Bang Club,” the drama based on the book about the lives of photojournalists covering the last days of Apartheid.
Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch are among the cast of the pic from writer-director Steven Silver. Movie bowed at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year.
Distribution platform Tribeca Film is an arm of Tribeca Enterprises, which also operates the Tribeca Film Fest. Company aims to release “Bang Bang” theatrically, as well as via VOD and other platforms, in the second quarter of 2011.
“Bang Bang” is produced by Daniel Iron, Lance Samuels and Adam Friedlander for Foundry Films/Out of Africa. Distribution deal was negotiated by Adam Sloan and Randy Manis of Tribeca with Iron and Entertainment One’s Charlotte Mickie.
Tribeca Film was launched earlier this spring, in advance of the 2010 Tribeca fest. Pickups since have included “Road, Move” and “The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle.”
I know what the world needs more of…
Jenna Fischer!
Well then it’s definitely a good thing that she’s starring in a new film titled, THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN. The screenplay was written by Fischer’s husband, Lee Kirk. It’s the story of, “an offbeat romantic comedy about two outsiders — a misunderstood street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.”
Fischer will play the zoo worker with AWAY WE GO’s Chris Messina taking on the role of the street performer. Malin Akerman and Topher Grace are co-starring. Kirk will be on double duty as he is directing the film as well. Fischer will produce alongside Molly Hassell (VAMPS, EDMOND), Michael Nardelli and Brent Stiefel.
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.