The praise for Anna just keeps pouring in. :) Take a look at this video interview with “The Twilight Saga” screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who singles out Anna as someone she loves to write for, who has amazing comedic and improvisation skills and is an immense talent. The segment about Anna is towards the end of the interview.

Anna in Entertainment Weekly is the cutest thing ever! She gets a full page spread, talks about working on “Up in the Air”, and is even the frontrunner on Entertainmen Weekly’s early Oscar picks for Best Supporting Actress. See both pages below in our gallery. As always, please do not archive our scans. Enjoy!

002 x Scans – November 13, 2009: Entertainment Weekly

Recognition for Anna’s talent keeps pouring in, as she is now acknowledged by Entertainment Weekly as one of the holiday movie season’s Scene Stealers, for her role as Natalie in “Up in the Air”. This issue of EW, which contains a brand new photoshoot image of Anna, goes on sale tomorrow, so be sure to check back for HQ scans as soon as I get my copy!

Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
You may recognize Kendrick as Bella Swan’s bubbly best friend from Twilight, but wait until you see her in the upcoming George Clooney-starrer Up in the Air. Playing eager corporate go-getter Natalie, who thinks she has all the answers, Kendrick goes mano-a-mano with Clooney and holds her own. ”I sort of didn’t really think George was doing it,” says Kendrick. ”But then I met [writer-director] Jason Reitman after I was cast for lunch and he told me about George and how excited he was to do the film. I tried to keep a poker face and act like, ‘Oh yeah, well I’m looking forward to working with him. That’s totally gonna be an everyday occurrence for me.”

Anna is featured in the November issue of Nylon Guys, and in a new interview, she talks about joking around with George Clooney, how she played Jessica in “Twilight” and what it’s like being a “former child star”. The scan is now available in our gallery, and as always, please do not archive our scans in your galleries. Enjoy!

001 x Scans – November 2009: Nylon Guys

Here is yet another glowing feature on Anna, which again highlights how different she is from Natalie, her character in “Up in the Air”, and gives an in depth analysis of Anna’s amazing performance. It also includes a new still from the film, which is now in our gallery.

Anna Kendrick: ‘Up In the Air’

During a celebrity-packed party at the Hamptons International Film Festival last month, Anna Kendrick responded modestly to a question about the musical talent that brought her a Tony nomination for her work in the Broadway production of “High Society” when she was 12. Five years later, it won her the part of Fredrika in the New York City Opera’s “Little Night Music.” Now 24, Ms. Kendrick has been concentrating on her film career, although in her biggest movie yet, Jason Reitman’s “Up in the Air” (Dec. 4), she gets to sing too, after a fashion.

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Here’s a cute new interview Anna did with her New Moon co-stars Michael Welch, Justin Chon and Christian Serratos. They are so charming and funny together, definitely a highlight of the Twilight movies.

Sure, New Moon’s vampires and werewolves may get all the attention, but it’s Bella’s gang of high school friends who keep the movie centered in reality. Anna Kendrick, Michael Welch, Justin Chon and Christian Serratos (who play Jessica, Mike, Eric and Angela, respectively) talk about providing the franchise’s comic relief and keeping it real as mortals amongst all the supernatural shenanigans.

Unlike Twilight, which was shot in Portland, you shot New Moon in Vancouver. What was that like?

Justin: The weather’s actually been better here. Portland was very, very, very cold and rainy. It’s a little bit nicer here.

Anna: One of the freaky things about shooting New Moon in a different location than Portland was the re-creation of things, like the high school parking lot. It was like déjà vu because we were in a different country but they completely recreated the parking lot from the school we shot at before.

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Here is a great new feature on Anna done by The LA Times, who met with her in New York and goes into the differences between her offscreen persona and Natalie, her character in “Up in the Air”, how she bonded with George Clooney, and what her impending fame means for her life. It even includes a new photoshoot image, which has been added to the gallery.

Anna Kendrick’s the upstart opposite George Clooney in ‘Air’
The young actress found her groove opposite the actor by joking around a lot.

By Rebecca Ascher-Walsh
November 1, 2009

Reporting from New York – To fully appreciate the skill involved in Anna Kendrick’s purse-lipped, perfect-postured turn as Natalie, the comic and dramatic foil to George Clooney in Jason Reitman’s “Up in the Air,” it helps to watch the 24-year-old in action. In the dramedy about a middle-aged executive (Clooney) who uses his job on the road as a hall pass for life, Kendrick’s Natalie is the sassy upstart, armed with sensible pumps, a decidedly unfashionable low ponytail, and a purposeful stride that gives her stature. The elf-like Kendrick, on the other hand, bounds into the room like a puppy in laceless black Converse sneakers, hair askew, and collapses on a couch, folding her jean-clad legs beneath her.

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Anna did a great sit-down interview with Moving Pictures magazine while promoting “Up in the Air” in Toronto. She talks extensively about auditioning for Jason Reitman, watching the movie for the first time with a lie audience, and much more. Watch both parts here or see some screencaps in our gallery below.

181 x Screen Captures – 09.13.09: Moving Pictures TIFF Interview

Here is an excerpt of Anna’s spread in the new issue of BlackBook magazine, along with two outtakes from the shoot:

002 x Photoshoots – 2009: BlackBook Outtakes

Anna Kendrick has the sneaking suspicion that her life is about to change. She’s onto something. The 24-year-old actress will star opposite George Clooney in Up in the Air, Jason Reitman’s adaptation of the best-selling Walter Kirn novel about a man obsessed with accruing frequent flier miles. “I’m allowing myself to think about the possibility that this could be a big deal, because I think the worst thing would be to get caught off guard,” says Kendrick, best known for playing Jessica, the fickle friend to Kristen Stewart’s Bella in Twilight. (She will reprise the role in this fall’s ravenously anticipated sequel, New Moon.)

Kendrick first turned heads as a motor-mouth debater in the little-seen festival oddball Rocket Science, a performance that impressed Reitman so much he wrote the part in Up in the Air with her in mind. (Still, she had to fight to keep it: rumor has it Juno ingénue Ellen Page auditioned for the role.) After Twilight, she’ll play Michael Cera’s sister in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, an adaptation of the quirky graphic novels. With all of these high-profile projects about to be released, Kendrick will have to adjust to some of the more bizarro elements of movie stardom. Namely: premieres. “I always convince myself they’re going to be fun,” says Kendrick. “But having that much energy thrown at you is always jarring.” She’d better get used to it.