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HOLLYWOOD, California - Malin Ackerman is appearing in more then just the 27 Dresses (FOX2000) this weekend, she is also starring in the little known festival film THE UTOPIAN SOCIETY (Directed by John P. Aguirre). Utopian, being released this weekend by Warner Home Video, was not only her debut feature film but is where she met her band mate and husband, Roberto Zincone.

"It was a great experience for everyone, I'm just glad a lot more people will get to enjoy it", says executive producer James Oddo, who put up most of the money for the film. "Even though Utopian played at more then 40 film festivals around the world it was a lot of work getting it distributed". Warner sought out the film after watching Ackerman's performance in the Ben Stiller comedy "The Heartbreak Kid".

The film has been compared to "The Breakfast Club" by audiences around the country. Director, James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross) who viewed it at a film festival in Phoenix, said "It had evoked the same emotions he felt the first time he saw American Graffiti..

"In a perfect world every great film would get wide distribution", stated the films director John P Aguirre, "But unfortunately we don't live in a Utopian Society".

THE UTOPIAN SOCIETY was released Tuesday (Jan 15, 2008) by Polychrome Warner Home Video and is specially packaged to include the soundtrack on Compact Disk.

ABOUT: The Utopian Society is the story of six college students from diverse backgrounds that are thrown together on a final project to create a Utopian Society on paper. They cant stand each other but as they break through their own walls they discover that its really their differences and secrets that bind them together.

Inspired by Thomas Moores allegory Utopia, these constantly bickering students are instructed to find a way to get along, at any cost, and thus create their own "contemporary utopia." Meet prima donna Tanci (Malin Akerman); Ken (Kelvin Yu) the stereotypically overworked Asian student, Justin (Austin Nichols), a fraternity (and sports) obsessed jock; Nera (Samia Doumit), a New Ager-cum-hippie; sorority girl African-American female basketball player Aaliyah (Kristin Ariza); and ber-independent Caleb (Mat Hostetler), who pair off into romantic couplings, reveal intimate sides of themselves, and undergo significant changes as they interact with one another.