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With the new thriller Laws of Man, award-winning actor Dermot Mulroney goes gritty with an intense and intimidating performance. It's something he's proved more than capable of for years, but it's still a far cry from the charming rom-com lead he became most famous for with titles like My Best Friend's Wedding, The Wedding Date, The Family Stone, Friends, and New Girl. He's set to make a return to the genre alongside another master of it, Malin Akerman with Perfectly Imperfect, and that's not his only upcoming project with Akerman.

Mulroney was recently promoting Laws of Man and took time to share about his pair of projects that co-star Akerman — and how their first one, a TV series called The Hunting Wives, led to their upcoming movie, Perfectly Imperfect. "We enjoyed working with each other so much [on The Hunting Wives]," Mulroney told us. "I got involved with trying to put [Perfectly Imperfect] together.

Eight years after Grace VanderWaal won “America’s Got Talent,” people still see her as the bashful 12-year-old girl from Kansas who floored everyone with her ukulele-playing and contemplative songs.

“I had the weirdest experience recently,” VanderWaal, now 20, tells Variety over Zoom from L.A., the blunt bangs of her tween years replaced by a sleek platinum bob. She recounts how, on a night out with friends, she crossed paths with a woman coming out of the bathroom.

“She was like, ‘You’re a woman! You’re a grown-up!’” VanderWaal says, mimicking the tipsy fan’s shock. “I was like literally gentle-parenting her through this, but she wouldn’t get over it. She couldn’t handle it.”

Lately, VanderWaal has been running into that kind of reaction — fans who can’t stop seeing her as a symbol of the purity and innocence of youth — a lot, even though she’s long...

Exclusive: Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding), Malin Akerman (The Heartbreak Kid) and Brian Austin Green have wrapped shoot in the Bahamas on under-the-radar rom-com Perfectly Imperfect, which heralds from Eta Films, Beno Films, Jnw Films and Al Bravo Films.

Joseph Nathan Weisman makes his feature directorial debut from an original screenplay by Wendi Coates (Camp Cool Kids) and Michael Varrati (Christmas with You).

The rom-com follows Jake (Mulroney), a by the numbers single dad, who sets off on a cruise with his quirky family and his childhood friend Reuben (Green). Onboard, he unexpectedly crosses paths with Meg (Akerman), a woman he once had an awkward date with on the mainland. As they get a second chance to connect, Jake and Meg discover that while neither of them is perfect, they might actually be perfectly imperfect for each other. Above and below are first-look images.

The film was produced by Eric Brenner,...