Defendor

Kat Dennings Exclusive Interview – Talks DEFENDOR, THOR, Twitter, DAYDREAM NATION, More

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: March 1st, 2010 at 11:00 am

This may be one of the best interviews I’ve ever done.  Steve is the interviewing master and has done way more than me, but I’m really proud of this one because it eventually turned into a conversation.  It helps that Kat Dennings is a ridiculously cool chick.  I spoke to her because she co-stars in the new movie Defender, which hit theaters in limited release a few days ago.

Usually, the interview is the standard Q&A and later I judge how badly I did (my apologies to Diablo Cody/Ellen Page and to Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg/Nick Frost).  But Dennings has certified geek credentials and while I had to bring up Thor because she’s in it, she knew her comics and grew up with them.  It’s clear that it’s not just being in a big blockbuster movie, but being in the Marvel Universe.  All she could tell me was that her character is not from the comics and they haven’t shot her scenes yet.

We also talked about comics in general, her upcoming movie Daydream Nation with Josh Lucas, her involvement in social media and how she’s switched from keeping a blog (that she started back in 2002) to Twitter (I recommended that she follow Roger Ebert), among other topics.  Hit the jump to read our conversation and hopefully you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed having it.

Trailer for DEFENDOR Starring Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Sandra Oh, and Kat Dennings

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 15th, 2010 at 1:35 pm

It always feels a bit cruel to show you a trailer for a film you probably won’t get to see in theaters.  Peter Stebbings’ Defendor, which stars Woody Harrelson as a regular guy going into the superhero business with the most basic of weapons (e.g. marbles, angry wasps), played to positive notices at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, and today, TrailerAddict has debuted the trailer for the film. The movie looks smart, funny, and I want to see it now.  Sadly, unless it scores the highest per-screen gross at the box office when it opens in L.A. on February 26th, then we probably won’t be seeing Harrelson fight crime until the film hits DVD and Blu-ray on April 13th.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer along with the official synopsis.

First Trailer for DEFENDOR Starring Woody Harrelson and Kat Dennings

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: September 2nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm

One of the many films premiering at this year’s Toronto Film Festival is writer-director Peter Stebbings “Defendor”. The film stars Woody Harrelson as a wanna be superhero named Defendor and it co-stars Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh and Elias Koteas. The key to the film is Defendor has no real superpowers, so we are going to see Woody try and fight crime using everyday supplies. Anyway, the first trailer has hit the web and while I was nervous about the film, the footage looks a lot better than I was expecting. It’s definitely worth checking out after the jump:

New Images from BRIGHT STAR, CREATION, DEFENDOR, SOLITARY MAN

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: August 26th, 2009 at 11:43 am

As I wrote when I posted the new images from “Mr. Nobody” and “The White Ribbon”, the Toronto Film Festival starts in a few weeks and like every year, the Festival is loaded with plenty of world premieres. While I had planned on attending this year’s festival as a member of the working press, due to my deciding to attend too late, I missed the cut for getting a press badge. However, I’m still going, and hope to be able to report on the films and interview a lot of the people attending.

Anyway, with the festival gearing up to start, I’ve been provided with a lot of new images from the films  premiering. So after the jump take a look at images from Jane Campion’s “Bright Star”, “Creation”, “Defendor”, and “Solitary Man”.

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