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| (For current Anna Kendrick News, go to homepage) | Below are the news features from Fall 2007 to Summer 2009.
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Up in the Air Premiere Confirmed In a July 30 press release, the Toronto International Film Festival announced that Up in the Air will make its world premiere there. The exact date and time of the showing is not yet announced, but the festival runs from September 10 to September 19. Writing about the premiere for firstshowing.net, Alex Billington gushes about the film: I'm not going to lie - I am probably more excited for Jason Reitman's Up in the Air than I am for any other movie the rest of this year. I love Jason Reitman, I love the cast, I love the story, everything about it sounds amazing. I even read the script earlier this year and it was brilliant. [The announcement that it will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival] isn't too surprising, ...considering Reitman was born in Montreal and TIFF loves Canadian filmmakers (and [Reitman's] Juno debuted there).
On location filming Up in the Air photo: Storms Media
| AK Seen and Heard in San Diego There are scads of youtube videos from the July 23 San Diego cast appearances at the Twilight screening. It screened in several theaters, and before the screenings began, the cast went from one theater to another to answer audience questions. Postings from two of the theaters will be of interest to AK fans. In one (better lighting here, but also posted here), AK does not speak on mike, but she is very visible at center stage and there is adorable interplay between her and Robert Pattinson for the first half of the video. In a different theater, she does speak on mike, answering a question about awkward moments during the filming of New Moon. She replies, apparently referring to crowds of fans viewing location shooting during the movie, "Most awkward thing? Oh, I guess the most awkward thing was filming a scene but like this, with all you guys. You guys were so supportive. But it was a little awkward." (View that one here from timecode 1:18 to 2:48, or here from timecode 1:10 to 2:40.) | 
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AK Tweets To Expose Imposters
The same day MTV.com published a blog entry that included a twitter posting purported to be from AK, the actress herself denied that twitter writer was her. In fact, she denied that any postings to twitter before July 24 were from her. AnnaKendrickOnline has never reported any of the many tweets that had been supposedly from her, just as we don't report on the fake AK Myspace and Facebook presences that exist. But as the picture in her July 27 initial posting shows, AnnaKendrick47 is her new and true twitter address. Thanks to MTV.com for being irresponsible enough to publish fakes as true. That prompted our heroine to make a rare contact with fans (it's been months since any quote from AK has appeared in the media). It remains to be seen if she will continue to twitter. Or when she will talk to a reporter about any of the three movies she's worked on in 2009. We hope she does-- and soon! 
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AK in San Diego As shown above, AK was among the many cast members that Summit Entertainment brought live to its special screening of Twilight in a San Diego movie theater the night of July 23. MTV.com reports that the actors were "waving to fans in front of the theater before the event began" and that before the film they answered questions from the inside audience. The line to get into the screening is described as "almost six city blocks long..., with people at the end of the line waiting two-and-a-half hours" before getting in. The event was scheduled to capitalize on the throngs of Twilight fans attending San Diego Comic-Con, at which the three central actors of the Twilight sequel, New Moon, (Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner) and the film's director had appeared and answered questions during a panel discussion. AK did not appear at the convention. But, despite the report below, the unannounced appearance of the whole cast in San Diego leaves open the possibility of similar surprises at future conventions between now and New Moon's November opening. |  Will She Be in Chicago?
The internet postings in early July claiming AK will be among the Twilight cast members appearing at Chicago Comic-Con in August may have been false. She is still not listed on the guest list at the convention's website, and the coordinator of the convention, Spat Oktan, told annakendrickonline July 20, "Any guest not on the site is either not confirmed or is not a guest." | Hope Floats Elsewhere director Nathan Hope, interviewed July 20 by killerfilm.com, has this to say about AK: For the size of the film we had, we got an amazing cast. Our casting director, Monika Mikkelson, just brought a lot of great talent to the table. A lot of them have done work, but weren’t a household name yet. When I was auditioning for the roles, the actors who were coming in, were just obviously right for the parts as they walked in. Anna had just worked Rocket Science for a friend of mine, and I knew she was incredibly talented and a very smart woman. She was a pleasure to work with.
And about the luck of having his star's profile raised by being featured in Twilight before Elsewhere came out, Hope says:
It can’t hurt you when one of your actors gets cast in a higher profile film after your film is made. There are countless films that struggle to find distribution and all of a sudden, one of the leads blows up and then there’s a lot more interest in the project...We were pretty confident that something like that would happen since we had a talented cast. It was just a question of who was it going to be first.
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New Pilgrim Pic Exposed: On June 12, Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright continued to reveal tidbits about the progress of filming by posting on his flickr photostream an on-set photo of AK as Stacey Pilgrim, beside Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers. | Up in Canada? Recent tweets from Up in the Air director Jason Reitman tease that his film may premiere in mid September if it's ready by then. Slashfilm.com reports that Reitman is trying to finish his film "in time for the Toronto Film Festival." Variety previously reported a planned December release date for the movie, in which AK is one of the stars opposite George Clooney. [6-10-09] | Elsewhere with an Audience: Horror magazine Fangoria, holding its annual Weekend of Horrors at the Javits Convention Center in New York City June 5th to 7th, featured a Saturday afternoon screening of the newly released on DVD film. Wonder what it was like to see it projected with a big audience. | 
Elsewhere is here: The movie, featuring a pre-Twilight AK, has gone straight to DVD after failure to get a theatrical release. "Darla's Secret" is one of the first vid-clips posted to youtube (other than the early trailer, which has been available on the Elsewhere homepage for ages). IMDB has a full summary of the movie's plot that was supposedly posted by director Nathan Hope. [6-2-09] "Where's Jillian, Darla?" intones AK threateningly. | Up Coming A small mention in Variety (May 18) says Paramount will release Up in the Air "at Christmas."
For those wondering what to expect of the film, here's what Playlist thinks: "We read the script to this one and for the most part, fully enjoyed its cleverness. Even if it's based off material written by author Walter Kirn, it's very Reitman, and more in the vein of "Thank You For Smoking," than "Juno." Reitman seems to be more than comfortable in the sarcastic domain of corporate hypocrisy." [5-25-09] | 
This from a tourist's posting on flickr about pics taken 5/21/09:
"They were filming small scenes throughout the [Las Vegas] airport, and causing quite the commotion as people were trying to catch their flights or start their vacations...I was able to spot three actors of note for the film. Mr. Clooney filmed a short scene running through the airport trying to catch a plane. Anna Kendrick was filmed walking onto and then riding a moving sidewalk. And finally Vera Farmiga was filmed talking on the cell phone. Not very exciting scenes, but they sure made an interesting trip to the airport."
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Red Carpet for Elsewhere? It's hard to keep from grinning as I type this. It was announced today that Elsewhere is holding a "premiere" tomorrow at the Linway Plaza Cinema in Goshen, Indiana (where the movie was filmed in 2006). The attending celebrities are the movie's co-producer, Elaine Ehrlich, and "some of the local crew members." Sounds like quite a night of excitement for Goshen-ites. Well, this way it didn't quite go direct to video. (The DVD hits stores June 2.) 5-20-09 * * * * * * * * * * | No News Is... Almost a week after the trashed scripts news inundated the Web, nothing new on the story has come out. Only a few media even mentioned the piece of the Associated Press release that said "a spokeswoman for Kendrick, Lisa Perkins" stated that "the actress wouldn't have left scripts lying around." The studio (Summit) only commented that the finder, who turned in the scripts, did "the right thing." No studio comments published about AK. So, as is usually the case with our heroine, even after being splashed across the tabloids (remember the pics of partying Pattinson licking her face?), she quickly ducks back under the radar. 5-18-09
| Script Wasted? This news is fascinating enough and relevant enough to AKonline that we're showing it here in full. Now the question will be is it accurate enough? Watch for more info as it becomes available...
Anna Kendrick Trashes ‘Twilight’ Sequel By Cayte Grieve from blackbookmag.com (related stories also on many other sources) May 12, 2009
There are two paths one can take after stumbling upon a highly anticipated, unreleased film script. There’s the road paved in gold that leads straight to the doors of US Weekly and OK!, who would both fight over the abandoned script as if they were Brangelina baby pics, eventually throwing wads of cash at you. Or, there’s the righteous route that leads back to studio executives who would shower you in thanks amounting to a movie premiere invite. I would take a shot in the dark and guess that the majority would most favor the get-rich-quick route, but lucky for Twilight fans, Casey Ray just wants to see a movie. Ray recently found pages to the Twilight follow-up New Moon, along with another script titled Memoirs, in the trash outside of a hotel, and Anna Kendrick is to blame. Well, it seems that way at least. To save the dramatics, Ray was loitering outside of a St. Louis hotel that just so happened to be housing a bunch of celebrities when she spied the ditched script. Kendrick, who reprises her vamp role as Jessica Stanley in New Moon, just so happened to be staying at said hotel because she just so happened to be shooting a new George Clooney flick, Up in the Air. I’m no detective, but it seems the following can be surmised: Kendrick was a little careless with her work; studio bigwigs suck at giving out rewards—sort of like that time you found a wallet stuffed to the gills with one thousand dollars cash and all you got upon returning it was a pack of gum and a pat on the back; and Ray may or may not be a celebrity stalker (or perhaps just guilty of loitering by the garbage).
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More On Set in Vancouver Here are a couple (these from VanCityAllie.com) where Stewart and AK appear to be having fun together. Allie reports on what she saw at the May 1 filming: They both looked beautiful... Anna as “Jessica” was wearing a very cute houndstooth pattern brown jacket with pockets, with a pink, coral and white shirts underneath. I like the necklace they chose for her. Blue jeans as well. They seemed to get along really well on set. Both were laughing and talking almost the entire time they were shooting or relaxing on set. 
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Film Scene Filming: Being Kendrick fans rather than Twilight fans, we're not familiar with the "movie theater scene" of New Moon-- apparently a well known episode of the novel. But since it was recently being filmed, and it involves the Jessica character, there are scads of pictures of AK (with Kristen Stewart) in the scene all over the internet Twilight sites. This one is from celebrity-gossip.net. |  * * * * * * * * * * Excerpted from Omaha.com 4/29/09 Reported by Wes Taylor World-Herald Staff Writer
| * * * * * * * * * * Pilgrim's Progress: As production begins on Scott Pilgrim (while AK is working elsewhere) a question that comes to mind is: Will she be doing the kind of athletic stunts Edgar Wright shows the rest of his cast rehearsing in his first video blog entry on the Scott Pilgrim movie website? * * * * * * * * * *
|  Stark, Silly, Stressed, Sultry: Whatever adjectives you want to apply to these pics from a recent photo shoot for Purple Fashion magazine, you can't deny stylist Christian Classen has shown her as absolutely ravishing. And undeniably grown up-- no trace of high schooler Jessica Stanley here!
|  The cast of New Moon seemed to be filming a parking lot scene April 9. Photo: Punkd Images via Laineygossip.com | AK (center) and two other cast members arrive in Vancouver April 6 for filming of the Twilight sequel, New Moon. 
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|  Glamour Girl: Selections from a March photo shoot.
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Elsewhere Almost Here: After a long time awaiting its theatrical release, Elsewhere is finally coming out-- direct to DVD! Amazon lists it as being released June 2, and is accepting pre-orders. Not only will we finally get to see this AK performance, but we also get treated to audio commentary by the director and the producer, behind the scenes interviews, and deleted scenes.
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NOT OUR ANNA!: As Fear the Forest-- a distinctly B movie featuring apparent teens, blood, and Bigfoot-- is about to be released direct to DVD (April 2009), there is more and more incorrect information on the Net identifying that movie's "Anna Kendrick" as our venerated AK. It isn't so! The star of that movie is actually Anna Elizabeth Kendrick, of New York City via Rehoboth, Massachusetts. A comparatively inexperienced (and unknown) self-described singer/dancer/actress, it looks like she formerly didn't use the middle name. IMDB lists her as "Anna Kendrick (II)," but we hope they soon more clearly identify her differently than the AK whose SAG card is presumably the only one that says "Anna Kendrick"!
|  Cartoon Anna: Yep, those are AK's eyes peeking out from over the drawing of Stacey Pilgrim, the character AK will play in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. This is one of a set of candids that director of the movie, Edgar Wright, has posted to his blog. (AK is the February 14 posting.) The art is by Bryan Lee O'Malley, creator of the Pilgrim series.
Notice the fingerless gloves on our heroine, a style she also sports in our site banner! |
On Queue: These are just some of the people who would like to be movie extras when AK acts opposite George Clooney in Up in the Air. Around 8000 waited in line at a mall near St. Louis, MO, January 24 and 25, to apply to be extras in the movie. [Source: South County Times, MO] Filming has either begun or will begin soon. The Detroit Free Press reported on Freep.com, February 5, that Detroit Metro Airport has been contacted by Paramount about using the facility's Berry Terminal. That article says they will film there "likely for a week late in February." [UPDATE: Filming is confirmed to have begun there 2/24/09.]
| And Elsewhere? : Yes, IMDB still lists the movie's release date as January 15. No, the movie has not been released. And no, we don't know what's happening with it. No news on the Elsewhere official movie site. Or elsewhere. [1/21/09] |  Another Teen Romp: According to the Hollywood Reporter (1/20/09), AK will be in the cast of the screen adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The story "centers on young slacker Scott Pilgrim, who meets the woman of his dreams, but finds he can win her heart only by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends." Coming off the Twilight film, it looks like AK is going right into a similar property: a film based on series literature with a cult following, featuring "romance, teen angst and plenty of fantastical action involving a large supporting cast." AK is slated to play Pilgrim's sister in the Universal picture, which will begin filming at the end of March in Toronto. |
Jessica Stanley on youtube: Of course Twilight fans have uploaded clips from the movie. Three so far feature AK (as Jessica):
This one-- the longest-- has Jessica explaining who the Cullen family are.
This one combines various clips of characters Edward and Bella, with a generous sprinkling of Jessica throughout.
And this one is a short (and fuzzy) compilation about characters Jessica and Mike.
|  On the Party Scene: AK was among the celebrities at the Zen Green Tea Liqueur Launch, hosted by Lance Bass, December 10 in Hollywood. | AK on Watch List: In a December 16 online photo gallery story, Entertainment Weekly included AK as one of its "Rising Stars: Nine to Watch in 2009." The item is subtitled, "We're betting you're going to get very familiar with the new faces on this list in the next 12 months." Remember it was October 2007 when Variety called AK one of the "ten actors to watch." Well this site is always watching, but if the EW list got you here, welcome! | 
More AK on DVD: Twilight Director Catherine Hardwicke recently told MTV.com's Larry Carroll that the DVD of the vampire movie will include among its extras some additional scenes with AK. Describing the DVD, which she anticipates may be available "right after Valentine's Day," she says, "One montage is called Human Hijinks, and it's all the human friends [including AK] doing crazy stuff, more with the worms and the greenhouse. Just them totally messing around, going crazy. That's kind of fun." 12/11/08 | AK Trashes Gossip: Remember the October 21 mtv.com big interview with AK? [Full links are below.] We missed posting one of the printed interview pieces that was not in the video segments.  Here's a little piece of it, but enjoy reading the full excerpt about her supposed feud, etc. I read [the tabloid story] and they were talking about how I was giving Kristen dirty looks,” she sighed. “And I was like, ‘Oh, so you’re straight-up making this up?’ Like ‘This is literally, you’re just making this up as you go?’ Because I adore Kristen! She is totally my homey. * * * * * | Sundance Pease? Peter Sciretta at slashfilm.com includes The Marc Pease Experience as a possible film to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2009. Probably just speculation at this point, but it sure would be nice for it to be launched at a venue like Sundance. The movie, which co-stars AK, has been listed for months on imdb.com as being completed. [11/26/08] UPDATE: The Sundance film list came out December 4. Marc Pease will not be playing there. Radio Interview: Johnjay and Rich at 104.7 KISS FM in Phoenix did a November 24 phone interview with AK. Not much new in this one, but we get to hear her amazement at the opening weekend box office gross (and she mentions that she lives in West Hollywood). [Actual inteview begins about two minutes into the mp3, so just advance your player to the 2:00 mark to get past the film clip and the deejay stalling.] | Role Up in the Air? So what is the role AK will actually be playing in Up in the Air? Lots of columnists, who have not read Kirn's book from which Jason Reitman adapted his screenplay, are now speculating about that. On November 21, it was widely reported that AK was cast as the "female lead." But on November 23, new reports, about the casting of Vera Farmiga, raised questions about what the female roles actually are. The book is about Ryan Bingham's search for happiness and his millionth frequent flyer mile. The newer movie news-- much of which originates from Variety-- says Farmiga will play "a businesswoman who develops a romantic relationship" with Bingham (George Clooney). With Farmiga in that role, Slashfilm.com now calls AK "another romantic lead." Empireonline.com now describes AK as "the movie’s nominal female lead, a young woman who also finds herself constantly drawn to Bingham." Many of the online descriptions of the 2001 novel don't even mention female characters. A reader at amazon.com describes " a woman he once fired [who] helps him ascend into the light." There is definitely a sister, Julie, whose wedding is apparently a destination for Bingham. Maybe Reitman has embellished. If you have read the book, can you help guess just what role AK will be playing?
AK Timeline: Variety also reports that principal photography is set to begin in late February in St. Louis, Miami and Las Vegas. Maybe that allows AK a few months "off" to enjoy the success of Twilight.
* * * * * | WHAT'S NEXT FOR AK?: "Talk about upping your profile. Anna Kendrick...has nabbed the coveted female lead in Paramount's Up in the Air, opposite George Clooney. Juno director Jason Reitman has adapted the comedy from Walter Kirn's 2001 novel. Reitman also will direct for Montecito Picture Co., the Paramount production shingle of Reitman's father Ivan. Nearly every young actress agreed to read for the part, including Ellen Page and Emily Blunt. But Kendrick apparently nailed the audition for a young woman who finds herself pulled into the orbit of a "career transition counselor" (i.e. professional firer) careening through the airless world of business travel." Reported 11/21/08 at thehollywoodreporter.com * * * * * And the Reviews Are In...: AK gets standout mention in some of the reviews of Twilight.
"Anna Kendrick, a scene-stealer last year in the high-school debate comedy Rocket Science, pulls off the same feat here as Bella's saucy friend, Jessica. She's such a joy to watch, she makes you wonder what she would do in the starring role. She might actually have some fun — and allow us to do the same."
Christy Lemire, Associated Press In many publications, November 19-21
"Burke steals a few scenes as Bella’s quietly dependable dad, as does the reliably sharp-witted Anna Kendrick as Bella’s busybody friend, Jessica."
Justin Chang, Variety (posted on Variety.com) November 19 (in print Nov. 20) "Thankfully, Hardwicke tossed some interesting character actors into the mix — notably Anna Kendrick from Camp, now all grown up with the décolletage to prove it — to imbue the second bananas with some spark for the few moments they can pull focus from Jane Eyre Lite and The 100-Year-Old Virgin."
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<< Looking beautiful on the Red Carpet at the premiere of Twilight, in Los Angeles, November 17, 2008 And there are two interviews with her there: One interview is typical, talking about playing Jessica. But in the other (with About.com) she's got some especially cute looks that we haven't seen in other interviews, as she talks about the excitement of the Twilight red carpet. | Author and Director Compliment AK: In a November 14 mtv.com interview, Twilight Author Stephanie Meyer said, "Every time Anna Kendrick added a new little twist or her eyebrow raised just a little differently, those nuances were fascinating to me." [Full question and answer here.] In a November 12 interview, Twilight Director Catherine Hardwicke declared, "I think Jessica [Anna Kendrick] is super-funny." [Full question and answer here.] * * * * * | 
I Thought Vampires Use Their Teeth: Sleaze site tmz.com got hold of pics of AK, Twilight star Robert Pattinson, and other movie cast members being silly at a recent party. | AK Featured: The October 21 "Twilight Tuesday" at mtv.com is a big interview with AK! Of course she is charming as she gives some behind-the-scenes stories of filming Twilight. 
(When you follow the link above, you will get to the article with an embedded 9.5 minute video interview. Be warned, though: The text of the article contains only excerpts of the video interview, and even those are liberally edited. But here at AKO we've posted a verbatim transcript of the entire four-segment interview that is embedded there.
Furthermore, the article contains excerpts from the mtv.com interview that are NOT part of the four segments they let us see. We've separated those excerpts, in case you want to read them separately. Wish we could actually see her speaking them-- they're fun.) 
[UPDATE: 12/7/08 found another great printed piece of this interview that's not in the online clips. AK talks about untrue media stories of cast feuds.] * * * * * | The October 7 "Twilight Tuesday" at mtv.com includes AK answering a fan's "burning question": Do you have the lung capacity to speak as fast, for as long, as Jessica [AK's character in Twilight]? Click pic to see her answer. --> |  |
|  | Kristen Stewart (Bella), Anna Kendrick (Jessica), and Nikki Reed (Rosalie) were among the Twilight cast members who attended the In Touch Weekly party after the Video Music Awards on September 7. [from Rosalie and Emmett fansite] |
| Fear Itself: This NBC series has not re-appeared after being preempted by the Democratic Convention. Matt Roush at tvguide.com calls the show "the kind of show that could very easily be dropped into the schedule if a hole opens up, but...also quite clearly the kind of show that can just vanish without a trace." So it's still unknown if we'll get to see AK in her episode, "The Spirit Box." | Summer 2008 Movie Openings: IMDB.com now is reporting that Elsewhere (starring AK) will be released in theaters January 15. Finally! And the opening of Twilight has been moved up to November 21, so reset your countdown clock. TV Horror? According to fangoria.com, an upcoming episode of "Fear Itself," NBC television's anthology series of horror stories, will feature AK. She will play one of "two teenaged girls who use a Ouija board to contact a friend who has killed herself. It turns out their pal was actually a murder victim, who enlists them to take revenge for her." NBC.com says the dead girl "was actually killed by a teacher with whom she'd been having an affair." The episode is titled, "The Spirit Box." With NBC's regular evening programming preempted by Olympic coverage right now, let's hope "Fear Itself" will continue after the Olympics and the Democratic Convention. If not, this could be another AK television appearance that never airs. At MTV Movie Awards: AK's pic holding a sampler bag at the 2008 MTV movie awards popped up on Flickr June 12. Anna in Space: Looks like AK will be one of the "names launched in 2009 with the Kepler spacecraft into orbit around the Sun." That's how the "official NASA certificate" reads, according to a June 24 article at the mtv.com movies blog. Thanks to Twilight fan Regina Schraut for placing AK in a spot we AK fans agree is suitably prominent for the actress! Anna in New Twilight Scene: A scene not in the book has been added to the Twilight movie, AK is in it, and it was posted online June 17! Here's video of AK's piece of the scene, and here's the script of her lines and their context (from an article on mtv.com). |
June 2008: Meanwhile, will The Marc Pease Experience ever be released? A May 29 post on the movie's IMDB message board says, without any detail, scenes are being reshot. A guerrilla review (youtube) of a sneak screening of the movie last fall criticized the script, but didn't talk about AK's performance. So not much for us AK fans except worry we might never get to see her in this. And what about Elsewhere? That film's director, Nathan Hope, told me June 8, "We don't have a screening set up right now but we will hopefully finalize our domestic distribution of the film soon." In addition to the trailer, the film's website features AK images on a number of its pages. May 2008: Not much new news on AK. She's been busily filming the Twilight movie in Seattle (movie synopsis on About Anna page). There is loads of Twilight fan blogging and gossip on the Internet about the movie, but very little specifically about AK. Above are a few glimpses of her on the set. Twilight is slated for a mid-December release. Article on mtv.com about what the Twilight movie excitement could do to boost AK's career. (posted 3/11/08) Ok, so AK lost Independent's Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female to Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There). At least we have some new pics in our gallery of her from the red carpet and from the nominees reception. Rocket Science didn't win in the Best First Screenplay category or the Best First Feature category either. But it's still worth renting. I was sure more entertained by AK's Ginny than by Cate's Bob. (Sorry Cate, your movie was one I "appreciated" more than I liked.) According to an article on mtv.com, AK has recently signed to play Jessica Stanley in the upcoming vampire movie, Twilight. (Judging from the huge number of online postings about the casting of Twilight, this movie has the potential to make AK more widely known. Too bad we might have to wait a year before the movie comes out. It begins filming February 25 in Portland, Oregon.) AK joined Jeffrey Blitz and Molly Hansen answering audience questions at a February 2 screening of Rocket Science at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theaters in Los Angeles, California. Pics are up now in the Gallery.  Rocket Science was released on DVD January 29, 2008. AK was interviewed 12/18/07 on WLBZ (Bangor, Maine) by Newscenter Anchor Rob Caldwell. She spoke about Rocket Science coming out on DVD in January, 2008; was proud of having been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for supporting actress for Rocket Science ; said she doesn't know what's happening with Elsewhere; and talked about experiences working with Ben Stiller in The Marc Pease Experience. Watch the full interview here. In October, 2007, Variety placed AK in its annual list of "Ten Actors to Watch." AK's reaction (brief interview) to being in the Variety list. AK is the lead character (Sarah) in the thriller, Elsewhere (2007), completed but awaiting a release date. See the trailer or the behind the scenes feature on youtube. AK stars (as Meg Brickman) with Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman in The Marc Pease Experience, still listed in IMDB.com as "post production."
AK acted (as Holly) in the second and third episodes of the fall 2007 television series, "Viva Laughlin." Unfortunately for AK, only the first two episodes aired (the pilot, which AK was not in, and the episode after that, which did include her briefly). Episode 2 aired 10/21/07.
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