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Marsden and Akerman Offer Each Other ‘A Little Something For Your Birthday’

27 Dresses pairing of James Marsden and Malin Akerman have apparently signed onto star in Michael Engler’s directing debut – the rom com A Little Something For Your Birthday. The former Overture and now Relativity project should begin lensing sometime this year with Steve Golin and Alix Madigan-Yorkin (whose had quite a year with Winter’s Bone) producing.

27 Dresses pairing of James Marsden and Malin Akerman have apparently signed onto star in Michael Engler’s directing debut – the rom com A Little Something For Your Birthday. The former Overture and now Relativity project should begin lensing sometime this year with Steve Golin and Alix Madigan-Yorkin (whose had quite a year with Winter’s Bone) producing. Again it’s worth mentioning that our source has often been wrong about casting news so take this with a grain of salt.

Gist: Scripted by Susan Walter, this is about a clothing designer (Akerman) who struggles to find love and success after turning thirty.

Worth Noting: This was listed (4 votes) on 2008’s Black List.

Do We Care?: Our interest would normally not budge with the current logline and the attached stars, but we’ll take a wait and see approach as we’re fans of Black List mentioned projects and like the output from prod co. Anonymous Content (Winter’s Bone, Married Life).

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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