I added pictures of Malin Akerman at the Spike TV’s 2009 “Guys Choice Awards”, be sure to check them out over at the gallery.

THOUGH the film hasn’t been finished, the trailer of The Bang-Bang Club has already hit the Cannes film festival.

Actors Ryan Philippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch are in the resort town promoting the movie, which was made in SA, about four news photographers who documented the violence at the end of apartheid.

Greg Marinovich, the photographer who co-authored the book and whose character is played by Philippe, said that though he wasn’t sunning himself on French beaches, he was happy the film was being promoted in France.

“The film is in its final [post-] production stage where the directors are editing and putting the final touches to it,” he said.

Filming was wrapped up earlier this month. The film’s director, Steven Silver, told a press conference on Friday that he had had an interest in the photographers who called themselves The Bang-Bang Club ever since he saw an article on Marinovich and Silva’s book in Time magazine.

This morning’s press reception for The Bang Bang Club in Cannes was rather affected by the conspicuous absence of the film’s main star, Ryan Phillippe, who pulled out at the last minute due to illness, making it a slightly quieter affair than many had expected. But what the press who didn’t attend missed out on were co-stars Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch, who introduced the film with director Steven Silver and sat down with Rotten Tomatoes to tell us more.

The project, which has just wrapped principal photography, is the tale of a group of photojournalists in post-Apartheid South Africa who risked their lives to take some of the most iconic warzone imagery in severely troubled times. “I was a young student during the early 90s which is when the film is set,” director Steven Silver told RT. “I joined the anti-Apartheid struggle and looked through many of the events described in the book and the film. I remember seeing this group of young photographers who were roughly my age. I’d see them taking photographs in the middle of this chaos. When I read a Time Magazine article about them I thought that it would make a compelling film. I’ve been pursuing it ever since.”

The film is based on a book of the same name, released after the Time article, which was written by two members of the titular club. For Wolverine star Taylor Kitsch, who plays Kevin Carter, who killed himself shortly after the death of another member of the group, taking on the character of a photographer was a challenging process. “I’ve always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera — not just a point and shoot. But getting a role like this there’s no better moment to take it in. I look at photography in a different light, now.”

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We here at Malin-Akerman.org want to wish Malin a very special birthday, may she spend the day with the ones she love!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALIN AKERMAN!!

Malin is in the top 5 of the 2009 “Hot 100″ list by “Maxim” magazine!

Here’s the Hot 100 for 2009 from Maxim:
1. Olivia Wilde
2. Megan Fox
3. Bar Refaeli
4. Malin Akerman
5. Mila Kunis
6. Eliza Dushku
7. Adriana Lima
8. Rihanna
9. Jordana Brewster
10. Jennifer Love Hewitt

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.

Malin is going to be on the cover of Maxim for April. It’s a new shoot which is amazing! Can’t wait for scans.

Maxim also released pictures from her 2008 Arena shoot, we already saw these but now we have them without a tag. It’s one of my favorite shoot of Malin’s so I don’t mind seeing them again either!

As Watchmen mania reaches a fever pitch, Warner Bros. has given Splash Page a first look at another in their series of character-centric teaser posters, this time featuring Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre II.

“It was really interesting,” Ackerman laughed of the Silk Spectre costume. “You know, latex sticks to your body, it sticks like a glove. The funny thing about it is because the costume was so revealing and so form fitting; we went through a few fittings just trying to get bubbles out. There’s all these issues that you never expect because it’s not very often that you make costumes out of latex. We had a professional that works with latex all the time trying to help us out. It was an interesting process and the outcome was beautiful but uncomfortable [laughs].”