I found two new stills of Anna in “50/50″. Check them now in the gallery:

• [x002] Movies: 50/50 - Production Stills

The acclaimed dramedy is coming to Blu-ray in January, and you can save an additional $5 by pre-ordering from Amazon!

In an early retailer announcement, Summit Entertainment will release ’50/50′ on Blu-ray on January 24.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen team up to beat the odds in a film that Rolling Stone calls achingly hilarious and heartfelt. Diagnosed with spinal cancer, 27 year old Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) navigates the road to recovery with the sometimes overbearing support of his crude best friend (Rogen), his smothering mother (Angelica Huston) and an inexperienced therapist (Anna Kendrick). Inspired by a true story of writer Will Reiser, 50/50 is an honest yet hysterically funny account of a young man’s journey toward healing.

Plus for a limited time, those who pre-order from Amazon can save an additional $5 by entering the code 5O5OFILM at checkout!

Specs and supplements have yet to be detailed, but suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $30.49.

In spite of not being a household name (yet), Anna Kendrick has notched up a diverse and interesting selection of roles in her relatively short career, including Scott Pilgrim​’s sharp-witted and slightly scary sister, the very sweet and somewhat out of her depth Natalie in Up in the Air – for which she received an Oscar nomination, as well as putting in the only watchable performances in the entire Twilight saga.

She’s also a massive film fan, and for that reason alone we absolutely love her.

Anna was recently in town to promote 50/50, and we had the opportunity to speak to her about her experiences making the film, her first time as a romantic interest, and how to talk about Twilight without actually talking about Twilight.

• On becoming involved with 50/50
  I read the script mid-2009, and didn’t hear anything about it I met with Nathan Kahane from Mandate about it, but it was sort of about other things, and you never want to say, ‘I really want to do that movie’. You want to act super cool. Then, out of nowhere, at Christmas they offer it to me and I was really excited. I thought it had disappeared, and then it came back. I was very excited.
  Now Seth and Will and Jonathon say, ‘we had her in mind the whole time’, but you never know about that stuff. It wasn’t written for me, no. It’s funny, because I wonder to what degree they were expecting me to do the same performance I did in Up In The Air. At a certain point I felt like that’s exactly what they wanted, and I felt bad because I felt like I was tricking them into offering me a part, and then planning to do something else, but everybody was happy with what I was doing.
• On creating the character of Katherine
  Somebody had told me, they were misinformed, but they told me that Katherine was based on a real character, and her dad was a therapist, and her heart wasn’t really in it, but she felt like she had to continue the family business, and I met with Jonathan after they’d offered me the part and said, ‘I can’t really reconcile that back story with what’s on the paper’, and he was like, ‘good news. She’s not a real person, so we can do whatever we want’. We tried to come much more from a place of a girl who cares so much, and is so excited to help people that she is sort of getting in her own way a lot – and that was much more exciting for me. So it didn’t feel like what was on paper was changing, but it felt like I was given permission to try something else.
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With the funny and touching comedy-drama 50/50 hitting UK cinemas this Friday 25th November, we catch up with star Anna Kendrick for a chat.

The Oscar-nominated star of Up in the Air plays Katie, a young psychologist to Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s cancer sufferer Adam. Based on scriptwriter Will Reiser’s actual experience battling cancer, it co-stars Reiser’s real-life friend Seth Rogen – we’ll be bringing you an interview with the pair later this week.

Read review of 50/50 here, to find out why it’s a genuinely affecting mixture of gallows humour and a traditional “bromance” dynamic between Gordon-Levitt and Rogen.

We chatted to Kendrick, last seen in Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, about her latest role, steering the round-table away from questions about Robert Pattinson. For Kendrick is also known to millions of Twilight fans as Kristen Stewart’s bitchy friend Jessica in the film franchise, successfully stealing every scene.

• How close are you to your character in the film? Do you think you’d make a good therapist?
  I don’t really like to give advice, because I’m worried that the advice I give would backfire. I used to be a really good listener, but I think that’s gotten worse over time. I think once upon a time I would have made a better therapist that now.
• Did it take a lot of research to play a professional therapist?
  Well I did have the benefit of being able to be a bad therapist! I met up with a young woman who does similar work and she was really helpful, particularly in that she was very young but had just enough experience to reflect on the mistakes she felt she had made when she was younger. If I had met with someone who was just starting out they maybe wouldn’t have had so much to tell me, but she was great. She could tell me “This was what was going through my mind,” and what she tried to be aware of and failed, that kind of thing.
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I added some new stills of Anna in “50/50″ in the gallery plus a couple of behind the scenes outtakes, posted by ew some time ago, and posters. I also replaced some of the stills we already have with HQ versions:

• [x002] Movies: 50/50 – Film Posters
  
• [x002] Movies: 50/50 – Behind the Scenes
  
• [x005] Movies: 50/50 – Production Stills

I updated the gallery with some captures of Anna being interviewed during BFI London Film Festival Screening:

• [x026] Captures in 2011 – October 13th: BFI London Film Festival – Vodcast Day 2
  
• [x176] Captures in 2011 – October 13th: BFI London Film Festival – “50/50″ Screening

Another promotional interview of Anna for “50/50″ is added in Kendrick Tube and our galery:

• [x126] Captures in 2011 - September: Shawn Edwards Interview

• [x150] Captures in 2011 - September: MTV After Hours With Josh Horowitz

Anna was on “The Better Show” talking about “50/50″:

• [x128] TV Appearances in 2011 - September 30th: The Better Show

I found a video and some pics from a couple of weeks ago when Anna attended a “50/50″ screening in Dallas followed by a Q&A:

• [x0003] Appearances in 2011 - September 15th: “50/50″ Screening at Angelika Film Center in Dallas
• [x1031] Captures in 2011 - September 15th: “50/50″ Screening at Angelika Film Center in Dallas