TIFF keeps updating their site, and they recently added more stills from Daydream Nation. Hopefully we’ll get this in bigger format later, but for now I just have to say I am seriously looking forward to this film, not to mention all the premiere photos, and Kat back at TIFF :)

Kat’s featured in Issue 110 of Flaunt Magazine, which is out this month. These scans are sort of tiny, but we’re working on finding an actual physical copy to scan for you guys. In the meantime, Warwick Saint did the photography, and you can see his work here.

Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings clearly have some chemistry, something that was on full display during their interview with Splash Page editor Rick Marshall at this year’s Comic-Con. The two gleefully described their “Thor” characters of Jane Foster and Darcy “the gnome helper” (watch the video and you’ll see what we mean), but they also had plenty of thoughts to share on the God of Thunder himself.

Portman and Dennings described their experience working with Chris Hemsworth, the bearded Australian actor starring as Thor in Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming Marvel film. According to the actresses, their initial work with Hemsworth had the actor performing entirely in civilian clothes — and when he finally stepped out as Thor, the two of them were thunder-struck, to say the least.

“We worked with him for like three weeks or a month when he was just a human wearing his own clothes,” said Portman. “When he’s on Earth, he just wears normal clothes. Then all of the sudden one day he had the whole codpiece and cape! And I was like, ‘You’ve been hiding this from us?’”

As for Dennings’ reaction to seeing Hemsworth in all of his Thor regalia? Let’s just say that the actress made a gesture with her microphone that isn’t quite fit for print —but you can see it for yourself in the video. In fact, Portman described the gesture as worthy of an award for “Best Use Of A Microphone.”

Can’t say we disagree!

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For the third year in a row, one of Kat’s films will be featured at Toronto International Film Festival, or TIFF for short. Daydream Nation will have its world premiere at this year’s festival, according to the official website’s recent press releases. I can’t wait to see what reviewers say of the film, and how big a distribution it will have after this. :)

Watch the trailer here, since it won’t embed.

Here’s what they write about Daydream Nation:

Only sixteen years old, Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings) is facing a teenager’s nightmare: her widowed father has moved from the city to a tiny, nowhere town where the major tourist attraction is an industrial fire that seems destined to burn forever and everyone under the age of nineteen is permanently stoned. Concocting new ways of getting high is a major hobby for most of Caroline’s classmates, including the lovelorn Thurston (Reece Thompson), who falls for Caroline the minute he lays eyes on her. And then there’s the minor inconvenience of a killer running around the neighborhood. What’s a girl to do but start an affair with the most available teacher at school?

Visually arresting, slyly funny and boasting its share of chills, Daydream Nation is a smart debut from Mike Goldbach (who co-wrote Childstar). An astute account of adolescent confusion and angst, the film exposes the wide rift between the adult and the adolescent worlds. No parent really knows how out of control their children are, but the adults in this world don’t seem to possess more maturity than their juniors.

Daydream Nation is driven by a stellar performance by Dennings as a girl who’s too smart to get sucked into teenaged melodrama, but only has a tenuous hold on her temper. The film is propelled by Caroline’s voice-over, a potent mix of sarcasm, naïveté and confusion. Dennings is supported by a magnificent cast which includes Andie MacDowell as Thurston’s overwhelmed but sharp single mother.

Goldbach subtly and effectively overlays genres here; initially, the film is an exposé of adolescent life, using suspense elements to invest the characters’ dilemmas with gravitas. The principal characters may be young, but their decisions are fateful. Daydream Nation announces the presence of a skilful new voice on the Canadian film scene.

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In my humble opinion, Kat looks absolutely stunning in everything we’ve seen so far from the W Magazine shoot. Hopefully the actual magazine has more pictures in it, but no one I know has been able to get hold of it as of yet. Click the above image to see more pictures.

“My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn’t get it, so I hate the lottery.” Since that rejection, Dennings, 24, has become an indie favorite—the smart, seductive, prickly downtown darling in such movies as Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Charlie Bartlett. Her curves and her attitude—bemused but sweet, self-aware but curious—set her apart from other young actresses. As a kid growing up near Philadelphia, “I wanted to be Christopher Walken,” Dennings says. “I saw a film version of Puss in Boots, and he was Puss. He had a mouse tail hanging out of his mouth, and he said ‘Growl’ as only Chris Walken can. That performance made me want to be an actor.”

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Kat is on the cover of the September issue of W Magazine, as part of their “Hollywood’s New It Girls” feature. The rest of the girls are Jessica Chastain (also gracing the cover), Yaya DaCosta, Greta Gerwig, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Roberts and Zoë Kravitz. Can’t wait to see the rest of the pictures, and the article. :)