Thanks to Sandra on livejournal, we have these five beautiful images of Kat from the Williams + Hirakawa photoshoot. Check out the rest of their stuff here.

 

Kat was featured in the Fall 2008 issue of Nylon Guys. You can now view the full article in the gallery. I’m in love with the shot of her from it, too.

She also posted today promising a new blog layout. While I’m fond of the current one, I’m curious to see what she’ll do with it next. Keep your eyes peeled, guys.

Anyway, I acquired The House Bunny on DVD over the weekend, so once the holidays roll to a halt I’ll get started on bringing you guys HQ screen captures!

Hope all of you have wonderful holidays and an awesome New Year. ♥

Thanks to Anarya over at sublime-michelle.net, we have six images from Kat’s shoot with Andrew MacPherson. Personally I don’t know what they were for or when they were taken, but they look great!

To see the rest of MacPherson’s photography, go to his website.

We’ve been given the first look at Robert Rodriguez’ film Shorts. Looks crazy to me, but it should be cute and interesting, right? Shorts is slated for release August 9, 2009.

More stills (without Kat) here.

The annual Black List is a list of the most well-liked, not-yet produced screenplays, and Kat’s on it! She, along with her older brother Geoffrey Litwack, have reportedly written a screenplay entitled “Your Dreams Suck”, and it got six mentions from more than 250 different film executives (you needed 4 to be included).

Vulture’s little blurb on the script reads as follows:

“An awkward teen with no self esteem regains his self-confidence after joining a Dance Dance Revolution team.”

Should be exciting to see if it actually gets made or not.

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Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is set to be released on February 3, 2009 on Blu-ray™ High-Def, DVD and PSP™!

DVD and Blu-ray Special Features include:
· Digital Copy of the film for playback on PSP™ and iTunes
· Deleted scenes
· Outtakes
· Music Video: Middle Management by Bishop Allen
· Storyboard Animations with optional filmmakers’ commentary
· A Nick and Norah Puppet Show by Kat Dennings
· Ari Graynor’s Video Diary: A Look Behind-the-Scenes
· Faux interview with Michael Cera, Kat Dennings and Eddie Kaye Thomas
· Photo Gallery
· Commentary with director Peter Sollett, actors Michael Cera, Kat Dennings and Ari Graynor
· Commentary with Peter Sollett, authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan and screenwriter
Lorene Scafaria

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The New Regime: Kat Dennings

The New Ingenue: Tired of guest stints on the small screen, actress Kat Dennings risks one of her nine lives while on the prowl for Hollywood notoriety.
By Tony Horkins
December 07, 2008

According to her acting coach, Kat Dennings should just “forget about the whole acting thing.” According to her mother, going into the profession was “a terrible idea.” According to casting agents, “her teeth are too weird, she’s funny looking, not pretty enough and too fat.” Luckily, Michael Cera’s love interest in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, who also stole scenes in The House Bunny and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is made of stern stuff. “Yeah, I’m not easily swayed,” says the 22-year-old with a lazy drawl. “I’m a pretty strong-willed person and the criticism doesn’t really bother me.” Instead, Dennings stayed focused, abandoned acting classes altogether and served her apprenticeship on small-screen staples like ER, CSI (both Crime Scene Investigation and NY) and Sex and the City before graduating to Hollywood.

But don’t expect to see her pictured, crotch on display, outside of an L.A. nightclub anytime soon. “Ugh, you can’t even talk in those places,” says Dennings, who stars in four films this year, including the Robert Rodriguez project Shorts, and The Dream of the Romans opposite Jeff Daniels. “Plus, I don’t drink and I don’t smoke and I don’t like being around people who do. Oh no, I sound really boring!” We’ll beg to differ.

Photo: Beth Herzhaft

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The Dream of the Romans, recently renamed Arlen Faber, has been put up on the Sundance Film Festival ’09 line-up under the category Dramatic Competition! A new Kat film isn’t far off, you guys!

Sundance is 39 days off, opening on January 15 and ending on January 25 in Park City, Utah.

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The Satellite Award nominations are in and Meryl Streep is leading the pack. Streep was nominated for her roles in both Doubt and Mama Mia!. Competing with Streep in the category of Actress in a Drama is heavyweight Angelina Jolie for Changeling and unexpectedly Melissa Leo for Frozen River. The International Press Academy must have had a soft spot for Frozen River because it was nominated for Best Motion Picture in the drama category as well.

Another name you’re going to hear a number of times at this show is Slumdog Millionaire. This independent film nabbed five nominations including Best Motion Picture in the drama category, Best Director for the work of Danny Boyle, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song for “Jaiho” by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar, Best Film Editing and was named one of the top ten films of the year.

In the comedy category, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a main contender. Kat Dennings was nominated for Best Actress In a Comedy or Musical and Michael Cera for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. The film is also up for Best Motion picture in the comedy and musical category.

The big night will take place on December 14th at Century City’s InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. My fingers will be kept crossed for Best Motion Picture in the animated or mixed media category nominee WALL-E.

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Actress (Comedy/Musical)

As strong as the dramatic and supporting races are, this category is weak, which means the HFPA will likely round out two or three strong nominations with others from movies that would not normally be considered awards-worthy.

On the comedy/musical side, awards magnet Streep is back in contention with Universal’s big-screen adaptation of the ABBA-loving stage hit “Mamma Mia.”

Two other Oscar winners are in contention in this category — McDormand, who plays a gym worker hungry for plastic surgery in Focus Features’ “Burn After Reading,” and Emma Thompson, as a London airport employee who finds unlikely romance with an American jingle writer (Dustin Hoffman) in Overture Films’ “Last Chance Harvey.”

Scanning the year for standout female performances in comedies, it’s hard to get past the film adaptation of the HBO series “Sex and the City” (New Line), which boasts juicy turns from its core quartet — Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker. As leader of the pack Carrie Bradshaw, Parker must be seen as the favorite.

There might also be room in the category for fresh faces Elizabeth Banks, who plays a regular gal who makes an adult film in the Weinstein Co.’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” and Kat Dennings, who plays Norah in Sony’s “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.”

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