Kat looking amazingly stunning at the Thor premiere last night. She’s sent everyone tweeting about her amazing cleavage as well. Because it is quite fantastic. Click any of the thumbnails above to be taken to the gallery with more pictures.

I’m on holiday in Cornwall at the moment and my connection is quite bad so this is all I’ve been able to upload so far, but I’ll find more high quality images when I’m back home and upload those for you as well!

Kat made an appearance at the LA premiere of Thor co-star Natalie Portman’s new film No Strings Attached last night. Held at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Kat, accompanied by who WireImage calls “guest”, looked smashing in black like usual. See the pictures here.

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Kat looked absolutely radiant at the Daydream Nation premiere last night at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto, Canada. There isn’t much out there in terms of pictures yet, but I’m assuming they’ll start trickling in during the day as photographers get organized and upload online. From what I can gather on twitter and various small blurbs on blogs, the film has been well-received :)

So far, you can check out the following albums in the gallery for TIFF images:
TIFF Daydream Nation premiere & Q&A.
TIFF Portraits 2010.
TIFF 2010 interviews.
CANDIDS – TIFF September 10, 2010.

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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Kat appeared at the Defendor Premiere in LA at the Landmark Theatre last night, February 22. We have a LOT of pictures from it, and she’s been photographed with Anton Yelchin, Chloe Sullivan, Diva Zappa, Peter Stebbings, Sandra Oh and of course, Woody Harrelson. Looking adorable and awesome as always, Kat. :)

124 pictures from it here.

Rachel went to that premiere and I suspect she’ll have a lot more to say when she comes back from it. :)

As you all hopefully know by now, Defendor is being released in cinemas across Canada tonight! And then in LA on Monday, where our own Rachel won a pass for two to the premiere. It will be awesome to hear what she has to say about the film over the weekend. :)

Have a pre-film interview with Kat from the Province:

She grew up toddling on the rolling green lawns of Bryn Mawr, Penn. — home to the world’s best women’s’ college and Katharine Hepburn’s alma mater — but Kat Dennings says while she fell in love with the classics, it wasn’t exactly a literary thing.

“I love the old musicals like Top Hat and An American in Paris,” says Dennings, who registered as a bona fide blip on the ingenue radar in the wake of playing Norah opposite Michael Cera’s Nick of Infinite Playlist fame.

“I didn’t want to be an actress from the very start. I went through a ballet stage first. Then I wanted to be a mermaid.”

Now starring in actor-turned director Peter Stebbings’s debut feature Defendor, Dennings says she has no problem taking on a variety of different roles, or even playing the crack-addicted sex trade worker (as she does in Defendor), as long as she maintains her personal and professional integrity along the way.

“I don’t really care if the choices I make are good or bad, but it’s important to me that they’re honest,” she says.

When it came to Defendor, Dennings says she was interested in taking on a low-budget project that seemed, in many ways, to be a labour of love for director Stebbings — as well as an ode to the steely-hearted city of Hamilton.

The story of a mentally challenged man who decides to clean up “the Hammer” by donning black clothing and taping a big “D” to his chest with duct tape, Defendor tells a familiar vigilante story with a human twist.

Stebbings says he was well aware of the archetypal source material he was working with, but wanted to strip it down to the basic mechanics of good and bad, and stick as close to the baseline as possible.

“I think people need to see how a lot of people in our society live. We turn a blind eye to all the invisible people out there, whether they are dealing with drug addiction or a disability,” says Stebbings.

“I spent a lot of time in Vancouver and I used to go to the First United Church at Hastings and Gore. I definitely saw how the other half lived,” he says.

Dennings wasn’t all that familiar with that other half, but in order to play the role of a teenage prostitute in this Canadian take on Taxi Driver, she did spend some time with a spokesperson for sex trade workers.

“I worked with a woman who was very familiar with this world and it was really helpful because this character [ironically named Kat] isn’t anything like me at all. She has nothing to hang on to,” says Dennings.

“I have a great family and supportive friends and I’ve been blessed in so many areas of my life. Kat, the character, has none of what I have. She’s got nothing to latch on to,” she says.

“I have to say, being in Hamilton for four or five weeks was also a huge help. That city certainly gets you in the right mood to smoke crack,” she says, her tone a perfect deadpan.

Starring opposite Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson, who plays Arthur Poppington (a. k.a. Defendor), Dennings says she found all the support she needed on set because Harrelson is the kind of actor who commits completely.

“If Woody hadn’t been there, the movie would have fallen apart. You have to believe in Arthur, and I swear, every time we were in a scene together and I looked into his eyes, I believed. He really transformed into Arthur — without tricks or anything — and that kind of made the experience for me.”

Dennings says she has no overall design on her career. She’s going to take it one part at a time, and right now, that would mean playing Darcy in the forthcoming Thor movie directed by Kenneth Branagh.

“Ah. I don’t know. I want to keep growing. Hopefully, I can do more comedy. I really like it and I think growing up, my favourite two actresses were Bernadette Peters and Madeline Kahn. They were great actors who made funny look easy. And that’s probably the hardest thing there is to do,” says Dennings.

“If they ever remake The Jerk, I’m going to fight to be in it.”

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Defendor’s website is officially up and running, and it lists Defendor’s release date as February 26 in select theatres in LA, and February 19 in Canada, namely Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary. \o/ Rachel will go see it if she can locate the LA theatre, so maybe she’ll write a review for you guys if she’s successful. <3

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TIFF Defendor Premiere and After Party
TIFF 2009 Portraits

Pictures from the TIFF premiere of Defendor and an accompanying portraits session now up in the gallery!

Kat looked positively stunning (despite being sick!) at the Shorts premiere yesterday in Hollywood. We have 74 images of her arriving at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in a slinky black dress here!

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