Paramount Famous Productions has made its first acquisition, taking all US and Canadian rights to Galt Niederhoffer’s Sundance premiere The Romantics.
The Team Todd, Plum Pictures, Benaroya Pictures and Four Of A Kind Productions film features an all-star ensemble of Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Malin Akerman, Adam Brody and Dianna Agron, with Candice Bergen and Elijah Wood.
The film will screen in Cannes and Simon Crowe of SC International is handling foreign sales.
Niederhoffer directed The Romantics from her own screenplay about a tight-knit group of college students who reunite for a wedding or two of their own.
Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Michael Benaroya, Ron Stein and Daniel Hendler produced.
“The response to the film has been extraordinary and I am delighted to have Paramount Famous Productions as our domestic distribution partner,” Lundberg said.
“We are thrilled to be in business with the talented team at Plum Pictures and their partners,” Paramount Famous Productions president Louis Feola said. “We have been tracking several of Plum’s projects and The Romantics is a great way to start.”
John Sloss of Cinetic Media negotiated the domestic deals with Paramount Famous.
From Screen Daily
Myriad Pictures will commence international sales in Cannes on Elektra Luxx, Sebastian Gutierrez’s comedy follow-up to Women In Trouble.
The film recently premiered at SXSW and stars Carla Gugino, Timothy Olyphant, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Malin Akerman, Adrianne Palicki, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kathleen Quinlan, Marley Shelton and Lucy Punch.
The story chronicles the ongoing misadventures of porn star Elektra Luxx (Gugino), now pregnant, as she tries to segue into a normal existence.
Gutierrez wrote, directed and produced Elektra Luxx. CAA broked the deal for Gutierrez with Myriad vice-president of production Amanda Blue.
“We thoroughly enjoyed working with Sebastian on Women In Troubleand are very happy to be handling Elektra Luxx as well,” Myriad president and CEO Kirk D’Amico said. “He has assembled an absolutely amazing cast.
“Carla Gugino is just spectacular as Elektra. She portrays her character with such sweetness and humour it’s a pure joy to watch. We are really looking forward to presenting this film to buyers in Cannes.”
From Screen Daily
Malin has been named one of the “best celebrities to meet in person” by Cinematical! 
It’s hard for me to give you any sort of definitive list since I’m a member of the press, and once celebrities know this about me they automatically go into “my publicist trained me to be this way around you” mode. But I have met a number of celebs outside the usual press junket atmosphere, and till this day the nicest, most personable celebrity I’ve ever come across was Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland, Adventureland, Holy Rollers) … so keep that in mind in case you ever run into him; he’s good people. Other cool, down-to-earth personalities (that I’ve come across) include Robert Downey Jr. (and especially his wife, Susan), Kevin Smith, Jess Weixler, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zoe Lister-Jones, Matt Reeves, Malin Akerman, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Chuck Palahniuk, Morgan Spurlock and Seann William Scott. My opinion, in case you’re curious, is based on me being able to have an actual human conversation with these people.
Hannover House has picked up the rights and will release happythankyoumoreplease, the Dramatic Audience Award Winner at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on August 27 (via Variety). Written, directed and starring Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) the romantic comedy follows a New York writer and his friends who begin caring for a foster child who gets lost on the subway.
The new distributor, which is best known for its home video market, reportedly paid $1 million for the film and will open it in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Dallas before expanding it to 20 more markets on Labor Day. happythankyoumoreplease, which feels like a cousin to (500) Days of Summer and Garden State, also stars Malin Akerman (Watchman), Zoe Kazan (Me and Orson Welles), Tony Hale (Arrested Development), Kate Mara (Shooter) and Pablo Schreiber (The Wire).
From Collider
Gary Oldman, Malin Akerman and Milo Ventimiglia will star in indie gangster project “Criminal Empire for Dummys,” set to shoot starting in late March in New Orleans.
Michael Clarke Duncan and Harvey Keitel are also attached. Cliff Dorfman, who’s credits include the upcoming “Warrior” for Lionsgate and “Entourage,” is making his feature directorial debut and helming from his own script.
Story centers on a charismatic young man — portrayed by Ventimiglia — who relates the do’s and don’ts of running a criminal empire through a flashback to his own rise from a tragic childhood and life in the ghetto to eventual position as a multinational drug and criminal kingpin.
Producers are Michael Roban of Cold Fusion Media, Dave Brown of Sleeping Giant Entertainment, Greg Hadjarowicz of Gremi Prods. and Paul Schiff of Paul Schiff Prods. Oldman’s manager Doug Urbanski is exec producing.
Production companies include Cold Fusion, Sleeping Giant, Gremi Productions and Hollywood Studios International, which is financing the $9 million project which includes Louisiana tax credit financing.
Oldman was most recently seen in “The Book of Eli” while Akerman’s recent credits include “Watchmen and “Couples Retreat.”
From Variety
According to IMDB, Malin is going to be guest starring on this week’s episode of the hit CW show “The Vampire Diaries”. The episode is titled “Fool Me Once” and is supposed to air on Thursday, February 11th!
I can’t confirm if Malin will be in this episode, since IMDB does get things wrong sometimes, so the best to find out is to watch the show! I hope its true and I’ll be sure to make a follow-up post about whether Malin was in the episode or not. 
Thanks to Johanna for the heads up!
“Watchmen” writer Alan Moore may have given up on Hollywood years ago, but if a recent rumor is to be believed, the author may have yet another reason to have his name stricken from film credits.
While there’s been no official announcement, BleedingCool.com reports that a change in DC Entertainment’s corporate structure has freed up the possibility of a sequel (or prequel) to 2009′s “Watchmen” – in comic book or movie form.
It’s said that longtime President and Publisher Paul Levitz was the rudder that steered DC away from publishing peripheral “Watchmen” materials such as sequels, prequels or spinoffs, but now that he’s stepped down and DC Comics has restructured as part of a broader DC Entertainment, the site reports some anonymous buzz from within the company indicating that the old rules no longer apply.
If such a scenario actually came to pass, DC would very likely have to move forward without “Watchmen” director Zack Snyder, who made it clear a year ago that he wouldn’t have anything to do with a sequel.
The same attitude extends to stars, including Silk Spectre Malin Akerman, who questioned not only whether a sequel would be possible, but whether it would fly at all with fans.
As of this morning there’s been no word from either DC Comics or DC Entertainment regarding more “Watchmen” material, although Time Warner Inc. Chairman & CEO Jeff Bewkes did mention Superman, Batman and Green Lantern as tentpole properties in Tuesday’s quarterly earnings call, according to Superhero Hype.
DC is expected to make major announcements regarding the use of its characters in other media over the coming weeks, meaning fans may want to keep their eyes peeled for potential “Watchmen” news.
From MTV