I have added another 30+ photos of Malin from three new events that she attended during the Sundance Film Festival! Malin is looking really pretty – so make sure you check them out below!

happythankyoumoreplease falls under the very small niche of traditional Sundance romantic comedies, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing … if the movie is good. A small indie movie with great performances, the film was helmed by Josh Radnor, best known for his role as Ted Mosby on the CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother. This is Radnor’s first feature film as writer and director, and it’s playing in Park City this week.

One reason this film charms is because of the excellent performances he got out of his leading actresses Malin Akerman, Kate Mara, and Zoe Kazan. We sat down with these lovely ladies to talk about the film, and to find out more about their characters.

Skiers have a term for the luxuriously smooth, dry snow that was falling on Park City, Utah, all weekend: “Champagne powder.” But the real fizzy swirl right now is the 26th annual Sundance Film Festival. Celebrating independent filmmaking is the festival’s raison d’être, so naturally there’s a ton of star-packed parties to slalom through.

The one Diesel and Absolut sponsored for James Franco and his film Howl got things going Thursday night, but corks (or, just as often, beer caps) didn’t really start to pop until Friday. That was when Philippe Chow whipped up a post-premiere dinner at the Bing Supper Club for actor/director Josh Radnor and the cast of his endearing ensemble dramedy HappyThankYouMorePlease. “I love it already, from day one,” gushed Malin Akerman. It was the Swedish-born Canadian actress’ first Sundance, and Park City reminded her of the ski hamlets she romped around in as a kid. “Everyone kind of lets their guard down because it’s cold and you’re all bundled up and cozy.” Nor does the talent necessarily waste precious time showering, she added. “Who cares? You can’t smell anything!”

Later that night, Akerman presented a “Fresh Faces” award to cast mate Zoe Kazan at a Gen Art party honoring a cadre of promising young actors. Kate Mara (who lights up HappyThankYouMorePlease as a Southern-born cabaret singer in New York) insisted that in the two years since she’d been named one, her face hadn’t changed. “I like to think it’s still fresh!”

From Style.com

When actress Malin Akerman headed to Sundance Thursday to promote three films at the festival: Happythankyoumoreplease, Bang Bang Club, and The Romantics, she hung around the airport in Los Angeles looking like just another passenger awaiting her plane. But when she landed in Salt Lake City, it was an entirely different situation. Watchmen fans surrounded their Silk Spectre with freshly printed glossy photos, searching for a signature. The attention seemed a bit out of place, and rather extreme, for this airport that is usually filled with ski buffs ready to attack Utah’s snowy peaks. But one week out of the year, Utah becomes a star-studded locale, and the fans are ready. “I always wonder how they know where I am,” says Akerman. “There must be some insider at the airport who calls all the Watchmen fans, because they are always the ones that show up.” And how does Akerman handle the adoration? “You’ve got to give them a ‘one more and I’ll see you at the festival.’ But they can be pretty adamant. One of these days I’m going to have to interview them to figure out how they find me.”

Akerman’s first film Happythankyoumoreplease debuted to a standing ovation. The directorial debut from How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor has received some solid reviews and is likely to sell by the end of the festival.

From Entertainment Weekly

Fans of “Arrested Development” have been waiting patiently for a movie version of the television series since the show’s finale in 2006. If word on the street is to be believed, series creator Mitch Hurwitz is hard at work on the screenplay — it’s just a matter of finishing the thing and getting the cast members on the same schedule.

There’s at least one “Arrested Development” alumnus itching to get back into his manchild clothing and false limb — none other than Buster himself, actor Tony Hale. When MTV News spoke with the comedian at the Sundance Film Festival, Hale said that he and every other cast member from the series are eagerly awaiting the script.

“I actually talked to Mitch last week and he’s writing it, and [the cast members] are all on board,” said Hale. “We’re all stoked to do it.”

While Hale is eager to resume his dysfunctional relationship with the rest of the Bluth family, he also feels that waiting could be a good thing.

“I want [Hurwitz] to take his time, because the writing is such a surprise,” he said. “One week you go, okay, a seal is going to bite off your hand. By the way, Liza Minnelli is going to be your girlfriend. There are all these surprises and we want those surprises, so I want to give him as much time [as he needs].”

Speaking of Minnelli — who played Buster’s longtime lover Lucille Two on the show — Hale hopes that she’ll return for the film.

“I would love for Liza to come back,” he said. “She is such a dear. She would sit and tell us stories about her life — it was awesome!”

But Buster might have other plans. During the interview, Hale’s “HappyThankYouMorePlease” co-star Malin Akerman declared her desire to have a role in the “Arrested Development” movie, which Hale was more than happy to accommodate.

“Malin’s going to be Buster’s girlfriend,” he joked. “He’s going from Liza Minnelli to Malin Akerman.”

As far as where he wants Buster to go in the film, Hale said he only had one suggestion for Hurwitz.

“I did mention that I want Buster to be on ‘American Idol,’” he said. “But he didn’t like that idea.”

Malin is currently in Park City, Utah for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and I have already added 100+ photos of her at events throughout this past weekend! She has been busy promoting “HappyThankYouMorePlease” and her other movie, “The Romantics”, is still set to premiere – so expect more photos of Malin from the festival soon!

You can see what photos have been added by clicking on the thumbnails below…

Malin Akerman is that rare kind of woman who can look smoking hot while making you laugh at the same time. Her performance opposite Ben Stiller in The Heartbreak Kid as a psycho woman who marries Stiller’s character on a whim was enough to convince us that there was a prettier, funnier Jennifer Aniston in Tinseltown. Maybe it stems from her Canadian roots — our neighbors to the North are known for their self-deprecating humor — but Akerman has no qualms about playing the girl who doesn’t get the guy in the end, but makes you laugh the whole time she’s doing it (see 27 Dresses, The Proposal and The Heartbreak Kid). In real life, unfortunately, she did get the guy; the 31-year-old actress has been married to Italian musician Roberto Zincone since 2007.

Malin Akerman will go down in history, along with Emmanuelle Chriqui and Kevin Connolly, for giving HBO one of the network’s finest moments: the Entourage threesome scene. Akerman talked exclusively to AskMen.com about her continued friendship with threesome pal Chriqui, her upcoming movies The Romantics and HappyThankYouMorePlease, tattoos, and our list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2010.
Q1: AskMen.com : You are one of AskMen.com’s Women of the Year for 2010. The winners are selected by our readers, so is there anything that you would like to say to them? Malin Akerman : Now, is it true that Emmanuelle Chriqui is No. 1?
Q2: AM : It is! MA : Yes! First of all then, I would like to say to the readers, thank you. I am obviously extremely flattered that they thought of me. And I also want to comment and say that I think they did right by choosing Emmanuelle who I got to have a threesome with — just to make the boys jealous, if they remember from Entourage. So boys, good choice on your No. 1. She is an awesome person and a hot momma.
Q3: AM : She told me this week when I spoke to her – after I told her that you were also on the list: “That girl is the sh*t!” MA : Em is awesome! We just literally had dinner two nights ago. She is the sweetest thing in the world. She’s a great choice. She’s beautiful inside and out.
Q4: AM : She was telling me this amazing story of you two becoming friends and knowing that you were going to stay friends, and that you invited her to your wedding in Italy soon after you met on the set of Entourage. MA : Yes, I did! From day one, we just loved each other. It was just crazy because we both grew up in Canada in Toronto. We have six degrees of separation: I was in love with her boyfriend. I went to the same school as her boyfriend, and she went to a different school. He was a guy who was two years older than me, and I had the biggest crush on him. I always wondered why he wouldn’t give me the time of day, and then I find out years and years later that he was dating Emmanuelle. I thought, “No wonder he wouldn’t look the other way!” It was so random and funny. We definitely did become instant friends. And — you know — once you have a fake threesome with someone you become friends for life.
Q5: AM : He says hi too. I wondered with you being in so many comedies if that was something you pursued or if that was something that just happened? MA : It was something that just happened. Once you do a film that people see, of course they kind of put you in that genre and know that you can do it. Until you prove otherwise, I think those are the kind of scripts that come my way. That’s why I was seeking to do something other than comedy, which is why I hit two birds with one stone when I got Watchmen because it was a really amazing genre film and it was also a serious film. And this year I have been in three independent films that are not comedy to just exercise that muscle and show people that I can do a little bit of everything. I’d love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
Q6: AM : I saw that you have two films at Sundance. MA : I do! I have one that’s called HappyThankYouMorePlease and the other one is called The Romantics. They’re both really amazing films — I hope they will be after the editing. I just love them and the casts and the characters. I am heading down there this week. I am actually on the way to the airport. I have been in Toronto doing some press for the Couples Retreat DVD release, so I’m headed back to L.A. and then going to Sundance right away.
Q7: AM : I heard that you were actually a frontwoman for a band. Is that something you still do on the side? MA : It’s not current, no. It was many years ago. All the boys who were in the band are all doing there own projects now. It was amazing and fun, but I don’t think I’m ever going to be a singer. I tried, and it’s not really — thank God for Auto-Tune.
Q8: AM : How did that happen then, that you became part of a band? MA : Really randomly. I had done a tiny little indie film in L.A. the first year that I was out there. The guitarist of the band was doing some editing for the movie. We met, and he told me that he was a guitarist. I opened my big mouth and said: “Well, who doesn’t fantasize about being a rock star? That’s so cool.” And he said: “Actually, I am kind of in between projects, so why don’t you help me write some songs?” He’s Italian, and I helped [the band] write some lyrics. He said: “Why don’t you try singing it?” We started writing some songs and a producer got interested. He already had the band with his drummer and his bassist. Instead of walking away with a record deal, I walked away with a husband… which is the drummer, not the guitarist.
Q9: AM : You seem like the type of person who does things on a whim. MA : Yeah, it just kind of happened that way. It’s a nice way to live life for a while and then after a minute you go: “I hope something catches on so I can start making some money.” Thank God the acting picked up and I got some amazing opportunities.
Q10: AM : You started off obviously as a model. What made you make the crossover from modeling to acting? MA : Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school. I was going to university studying child psychology because I wanted to become a child psychologist. I didn’t think I was going to be a model or actress or anything, but when you do modeling you also get sent out for TV commercials. They then asked if I wanted to go out for some guest star roles. I saw the dollar signs and I thought, “Great, I can pay for my university.” It just kind of caught me off guard that I loved it. I thought, “I’m a little burned out on school so why not give this a shot?” It worked out. It didn’t happen overnight.
Q11: AM : What was your first real role? MA : The funny thing is that I actually did a pilot in Canada for an MTV show with Rachel McAdams a long, long time ago. It never aired or got picked up, so you’ll never see it. Nobody ever will, which is probably a good thing! But I am so happy for her that she is doing so well. She is such an awesome girl.
Q12: AM : Who is actually the funniest real-life costars who made being onset awesome? MA : Funnily enough, I will have to say Billy Crudup who is not a comedian. He is super witty and his humor is dry and sarcastic. He made a lot of us laugh on set.
Q13: AM : I read somewhere that you’d have a sleeve of tattoos if you could. MA : Yes!
Q14: AM : How many do you have at the moment? MA : I have two, and I think I am going to have to stop there because it’s really hard when doing films to cover them up. It’s the extra amount of hours in the make-up chair just to cover them. It’s not worth it. I prefer my sleep over sitting in a make-up chair. But if I were in any other business that allowed me to have more tattoos, I would. I’m a little obsessed. I think they’re pretty amazing, especially when they are beautiful and well done.
Q15: AM : You have one that’s a lotus leaf. You were raised Buddhist? MA : Yeah. The lotus is a really cool flower. It grows in the mud without roots, so it is a symbol of you creating your own life and your own karma without having to tie it back to your roots and past and not letting that hold you back. It’s a nice meaning.
Q16: AM : And can you tell us a little bit about what The Romantics is about? MA : Yeah! I like to compare it to The Big Chill many years ago. It’s a group of college friends who get together for somebody’s wedding. It takes place the night before the wedding at the rehearsal dinner. It’s a night of fun and drinks and a lot of secrets that come out and a lot of hook-ups. It’s a debaucherous evening based on Galt Niederhoffer’s book The Romantics.

From Askmen.com