I have uploaded almost 1,500 new pictures of Anna into our media archive. I uploaded over 1,000 images of Anna from events this year, over 300 pictures from events in 2007, production stills from Anna’s appearance on TRL and of course, more HQ’s from “The House Bunny”. You can click on the thumbnails below to check out the new stuff. Enjoy! 
There is a one-page article (with a gorgeous picture!) in the Q&A section featuring Anna in the September 1 issue of “People” magazine. The cover features Ellen Degeneres and Portia deRossi on the cover. In the article, Anna talks about preparing to shoot “The House Bunny”, Hugh Hefner and her co-stars in the film.
Make sure to head out and grab your copy – its on newsstands now! I’ll be adding a HQ scan from the magazine soon.
“It’s not just a message for girls, but everyone learning to accept themselves and love themselves for who they are,” says ‘The House Bunny’ star Anna Faris. “When we first meet Shelley she may think she’s the hottest girl, but she learns to realize that how you look is not important. It’s about how you look at yourself.”
“It was one of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had of filming in the Playboy Mansion,” says Faris. “It was amazing, I went in with a bunch of preconceived notions about life in the Playboy Mansion…hot girls, expensive cars, monkeys and peacocks…and it was all true!”
Screenwriters Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz, who’d written the hit film ‘Legally Blonde’, were interested in working with Faris. “We’d just seen ‘Just Friends’,” says McCullah Lutz. “And, we both really enjoyed her performance in that movie. So we called and set up a meeting to have coffee.”
“We kind of stalked her, basically,” laughs Smith. “And she didn’t know it.”
At the meeting, the writers and Faris developed the idea of a Playboy bunny forced out of the Playboy Mansion into the real world and into a misfit sorority that desperately needs her help. The trio landed in the office of producer Heather Parry at Happy Madison Productions. Parry took the idea to Adam Sandler and producing partner Jack Giarraputo, who brought it to their home studio at Columbia Pictures. Sandler and Giarraputo had already worked with Faris on the comedy ‘The Hot Chick’.
“Every girl goes through a time in her life in which she tries on new looks and new attitudes,” says producer Heather Parry. “And, ‘The House Bunny’ looks at that time in a really funny and charming way. It’s funny and it has heart.”
She teaches the girls how to be cool and cute and popular. That’s definitely true. But for Shelley, it’s all about self-confidence,” says Lutz.
Faris had a recurring role on the final season of ‘Friends’ as the surrogate mother of Monica and Chandler’s adopted baby. Faris had the lead role in all four of the ‘Scary Movie’ films. She earned raves for her roles in the Oscar-nominated ‘Lost in Translation’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’, and for her memorable role in ‘Just Friends’.
Faris stars next opposite Seth Rogen in ‘Observe and Report’, with Topher Grace in ‘Kids in America’, and in the ensemble British comedy ‘Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel’. She’s currently voicing an animated character in Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs opposite Bill Hader.
Release Date: August 22nd, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sex-related humor, partial nudity and brief strong language.
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min.
U.S. Box Office: $22,151,000
– Speaking of ‘The House Bunny’, it comes in at #4 at the box office, making $8.3 million this weekend!
I did a big update to our media archive today. I have added both videos and screen captures of Anna from “The Tonight Show”, “TRL” (thanks to Jess for helping me out with this one!), “Entertainment Tonight”, various press junkets for “The House Bunny”, “I Beat You” challenge, behind the scenes of the “Details” magazine shoot and the music video for “I Know What Boys Like”. You can check out what I uploaded by clicking on the thumbnails below. There’s still a bunch more stuff to come!
The time is here folks, “The House Bunny” is now released in theaters nation-wide! 
The movie stars Anna, of course, and a host of other young talents like Emma Stone, Colin Hanks, Kat Dennings, Rumer Willis and Katharine McPhee.
Make sure you head over to your local movie theater and see the movie, maybe even twice, this weekend! 
Anna is currently featured on the new website, I Beat You.com and it’s a pretty funny video… Here’s some information about the competition and the embed of the video below!
We have video of Anna doing a take on chubby bunny, but instead of chubby bunny she and some of the early competitors are saying House Bunny. It’s pretty funny and Anna did awesome in it. I thought this might be of interest to your Anna fans.
Anna Faris: Not Your Typical ‘House Bunny’
Premiere talks to rising comic star Anna Faris about developing her character Shelley in ‘The House Bunny,’ why it’s liberating to play a character without a love interest, and her vow to never Google herself.
Nobody can debate Anna Faris’ status as a movie star, but few may realize the subtleties of a career that began with Scary Movie and its three riotous sequels. However, the thirty-one-year old Seattle native has carefully navigated a variety of projects over the years that buck the archetypical, brainless female roles dominating contemporary Hollywood cinema. In The House Bunny, she confronts and deconstructs those stereotypes as Shelley Darlington, a doll-faced Playboy Mansion reject whose narrow outlook on life expands when she becomes the unlikely house mother for a sorority of social rejects (including one played by Superbad’s Emma Stone).
Although Shelley seems utterly vapid (an accusation she frequently mistakes for a compliment), the character turns out to be quite perceptive under the surface. The performance ought to be viewed alongside Faris’ remarkable transition into the dazed and confused pot smoker Jane F. in Gregg Araki’s woefully underseen Smiley Face. Faris’ out-of-place goofiness works in a variety of offbeat scenarios, from The House Bunny to the Scary Movie quartet. She spoke to Premiere about the motives behind those performances, the genesis of The House Bunny, and her “deliciously awful” future role opposite Seth Rogen.
Was it hard to get Playboy interested in this project?
No. We gave the script to them right after [Adam Sandler's production company] Happy Madison and Sony were onboard. They agreed immediately and were incredibly supportive. We spent a week and a half shooting there, and it was very satisfying.
Did the magazine finance any of the film?
No, they didn’t — not that I know of. I’ve been asked a few times if I know anything about producing, and I don’t, really. I got the executive producer credit because I created the idea and sold it to the studios. I was involved in some of the decision making, but most of the time they were just like, “Oh, that actress doesn’t know what she’s talking about.” I’m still working my way up on the producing side of things.
Where did the idea come from?
I came up with it a couple of years ago. It was a specific character I had been thinking about. What happens when you’re living a very surreal Hollywood life and it’s time to move on? Do you become a lawyer? Work at Starbucks? Marry somebody wealthy? I brought the idea to the writers of Legally Blond, they wrote the script, and we pitched it together. I’d never done anything like that before.
How much contact did you have with Adam Sandler?
Adam had produced The Hot Chick, so he was really involved. We pitched [The House Bunny] to him and he was like, “Let’s do it.” When you’re Adam Sandler and you say that kind of thing, it really happens. He was on set and wrote a lot of jokes. He’s a really hardworking guy.
Were you a sorority girl?
No, I lived in a dorm off-campus. Looking back, I wish I had joined a sorority. I probably would have been much happier. I couldn’t figure out what my social group was. I was the different girl.
Speaking of different, do you think Smiley Face eventually found its audience?
I don’t know. It’s so gratifying to me when people love that movie, because it was definitely a passion project for me, and so much fun to make. I’m not sure where it is on people’s radar. I don’t even know if it’s really out there. I guess it’s at Blockbuster. I did win a Stony Award. I have my High Times bong on top of my mantle, and I love it. It’s the only award I’ve ever won.
Observe and Report
Young Americans
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
The House Bunny
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
