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Saturday's Highlights
Original at Calendar Live
• Sat, Dec 26
The Secret Life of Bees: Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning and Alicia Keys star in this down-home 2008 drama (10 pm Cinemax).
VIDEO: Can 'The Runaways' movie eclipse 'Twilight' for Kristen Stewart? [WATCH ...
Original at Examiner.com
• Fri, Dec 18
The Runaways also stars Dakota Fanning [I Am Sam, War of the Worlds] as Cherie Currie, Scout Taylor-Compton [Rob Zombie's Halloween movies, Charmed] as Lita ... Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning Model Bad Hair in Runaways TeaserE! Online (blog)
'Runaways' trailer: Kristen Stewart rocks, Dakota Fanning dons lingerie
Original at Entertainment Weekly
• Thu, Dec 17
And Dakota Fanning…um…seems to have grown up a lot since Charlotte's Web! I guess I'm not used to seeing her in lingerie doing sexy singer moves. ... First Teaser Trailer for 'The Runaways'Screen Rant Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning Model Bad Hair in Runaways TeaserE! Online (blog)
'The Runaways' Movie Finds Distribution - Geeks of Doom
Original at geeksofdoom.com
• Tue, Dec 15
The Runaways' Movie Finds Distribution Geeks of Doom (blog) The movie stars young up-and-coming actresses Dakota Fanning (I Am Sam, Push) as Currie and Kristen Stewart (Panic Room, The Twilight Saga) as Jett. ... and more »
Depressing acting sours saga
Original at Niagara Falls Review
• Fri, Nov 27
Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, Underworld) and Dakota Fanning (Push, Hide and Seek) are delightful in their short, but sweet, roles as Aro and Jane, ... and more »
“New Moon” Draws Horde Of Twilight Fans
Original at Thaindian
• Sat, Nov 21
guardian.co.uk The critics and the Twilight fans agree on one thing and that is the casting of Dakota Fanning in the role of Jane. The 'War of the Worlds' star, ... Twilight girls vamp it up as Robert Pattinson and fellow stars of 'New Moon ...hellomagazine.com
Exclusive Interview: Dakota Fanning (The Twilight Saga: New Moon)
Original at ScreenStar.com Movie
• Thu, Nov 19
At just 15 years old, she's already one of the best and most accomplished actresses out there, with credits spanning from I Am Sam, The Cat in the Hat ... and more »
Dakota Fanning goes bad in 'Moon'
Original at Youngstown Vindicator
• Tue, Nov 17
MTV.com Whether it has been movies such as “War of the Worlds” or “I Am Sam,” or the cable miniseries “Taken,” Fanning usually plays young girls. ... Dakota Fanning thrilled to play baddie in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”NewsOK.com all 130 news articles »
Dakota Fanning thrilled to play baddie in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
Original at NewsOK.com
• Tue, Nov 17
• 1 related articles
Fanning broke out with her acclaimed performance in the 2001 drama “I Am Sam” and has since accumulated 40 TV and movie credits. But “New Moon” offered the ... and more »
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Michael Sheen: I took role in Twilight sequel New Moon to keep my daughter happy
Original at Glasgow Daily Record
• Tue, Nov 17
It's quite thrilling to have Dakota Fanning calling you 'master'. "I think we can now reveal that we actually had to tone Dakota down. ... Dakota Fanning gets to play a villain in 'New Moon'San Jose Mercury News Dakota Fanning thrilled to play baddie in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”NewsOK.com
Dear Dakota, Invest In A Camera With A Good Red Eye Blocker
Original at Dlisted
• Fri, Aug 28
By Michael K Below are pictures of the rest of the Volturi bitches including: Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus, Michael Sheen as Aro, Cameron Bright (the creepy kid from Birth) as Alec, Dakota Fanning as Jane and Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius.
Movie Review: 'Fragments'
Original at Epoch Times
• Thu, Jul 30
Life for survivors Kate Beckinsale (“Van Helsing,” “Underworld”), Dakota Fanning (“War of the Worlds”), Guy Pearce (“Rules of Engagement”), Forest Whitaker ... and more »
Actress Gets Same Strange Expression Every Time She Thinks About Hounddog
Original at Gawker
• Fri, Jun 12
By Richard Lawson Lil' Dakota Fanning going to a rehearsal for her Joan Jett movie; image via Bauer-Griffin]
This Is Real Life
Original at Dlisted
• Tue, Jun 9
By Michael K Window licker Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning left a recording studio in Los Angeles yesterday where they were beginning vocal work on The Runaways biopic. This isn't just a day terror you can snap out of. This is really happening.
Rafael Film Center celebrates delightful decade
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Thu, May 28
USA Everybody from Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren, Phil Kaufman and Dakota Fanning to the big three of Bay Area filmmaking - George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Saul Zaentz - have appeared at and supported the theater that has energized downtown San ...
Dakota Fanning Takes Time for Mom
Original at The Gossip Girls
• Mon, May 11
She's one of the hottest young stars in Hollywood, but even Dakota Fanning knows the importance of showing her mom some love on Mother's Day. The “I Am Sam” cutie took time out of her busy schedule to treat her mother to a swanky meal at an Italian ...
Film review: Coraline
Original at CBBC newsround (audio)
• Sat, May 9
UK From big American stars like Dakota Fanning (Charlotte's Web) who is the voice behind the lead Coraline, to the UK's own funny pair Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders who are hilarious as Coraline's weird neighbours Miss Spink and Miss Forcible. ...
The Secret Life of Bees: review
Original at Telegraph.co.uk
• Wed, Apr 1
United Kingdom Getting sticky with honey is useful for adolescent flirting, too, as Lily (Dakota Fanning) discovers in South Carolina in 1964, when she escapes her abusive father (Paul Bettany, briefly terrific) and hides out with her nanny (Jennifer Hudson) in the ...
I Am Sam
Original at TheCelebrityCafe.com
• Mon, Mar 30
NY Sam tries his best to provide for his daughter, Lucy (Dakota Fanning), by taking her out to IHOP and reading her Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. He named her after the Beatles song, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” Once Lucy became 8 years old, ...
Dakota Fanning Set To Rock
Original at Cinema Blend
• Thu, Mar 5
By Rafe Telsch: 2009-03-05 09:30:41 When I read in Variety that Dakota Fanning was negotiating for a part in The Runaways I assumed she was following in her Hounddog footsteps, playing some teen who was running away from home and getting into hard ...
Review says 'nothing can redeem this mendacious swamp of a film'
Original at WorldNetDaily
• Fri, Feb 20
OR By Bob Unruh Concerned Women for America, the largest women's public policy organization in the nation, is asking retailers to take the infamous Dakota Fanning "rape" movie "Hounddog" off their shelves for the protection of children and families. ...
Hounddog DVD Review
Original at NewsBlaze
• Thu, Feb 19
CA By Kam Williams It's rural Alabama in the late Fifties, and little Lewellen (Dakota Fanning) is feeling pangs of sexual awakenings. Unfortunately, the prepubescent adolescent is being raised by her Bible-thumping grandmother (Piper Laurie) whose ...
Dakota Fanning
Original at Baltimore Sun
• Fri, Feb 13
United States - The Secret Life of Bees." Her younger sister, Elle Fanning, is also an actress. Show more » Dakota Fanning has an impressive resume as a child actress. ... Charming, sweet, but forgettable The Times all 2 news articles
NAACP Allows 'Seven Pounds' A Brief Taste Of Awards-Season Love
Original at Gawker
• Thu, Feb 12
By STV While Dakota Fanning failed to capitalize last night on her honorary blackness, Seven Pounds co-stars Will Smith and Rosario Dawson indeed felt the sweet if transitory kiss of NAACP Image Awards validation. Jennifer Hudson wins big at Image Awards [THR]
Psychic Dakota Fanning Sadly Didn't See Drew Barrymore's Steamroller ComingOriginal at Gawker
• Fri, Feb 6
By STV FOR SHUT-INS: A sparse week of new DVD releases includes Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, a two-disc edition of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, the good Dakota Fanning alternative The Secret Life of Bees, "deluxe" reissues of the first three Friday the 13th films, and the indispenable-to...
DVDs: 'The Secret Life of Bees'
Original at Seattle Post Intelligencer
• Tue, Feb 3
When lonely, emotionally starved Lily (Dakota Fanning) flees her angry father (Paul Bettany) to learn about her half-remembered mother, she takes Rosaleen, ... New on DVD: 'The Secret Life of Bees' Baltimore Sun New on DVD: The Secret Life of Bees Popjournalism
Dear Ali Lohan, This Is What A 15-Year-Old Should Look Like
Original at Dlisted
• Fri, Jan 30
By Michael K I thought I'd give you some Dakota Fanning to wash the Ali Lohan out of your eyes. It's nice to see that some chicks in the whole Hollywood game are okay with looking 15 (Dakota turns 15 next month). 15-year-olds should look like fresh Spring daisies, not like a middle-aged, stressed out DMV em...
Dakota Fanning Might Get To Frolic Through Robert Pattinson's Magical Forest Hair
Original at Dlisted
• Wed, Jan 21
By Michael K So, Marc Malkin at E! says nearly 15-year-old Dakota Fanning is having conversations with the producers of the Twilight sequel about being in that mess. A source said they offered her the role of Jane described as " a member of Italy’s Volturi, the most deadly group of bloodsucking killers....
Opinion: Oh The Places You'll Go
Original at Defamer
• Fri, Jan 9
By STV · This Week in Awards Hell: Bashir stunned WALL-E. The PGA boosted. The WGA snubbed. The DGA sleepwalked. The people spoke (drunkenly). And Dakota Fanning became an Honorary Sista. · Weary Barbara Walters resolved to be nice to her View co-hosts in 2009. That could have gone better.
Opinion: Oh The Places You'll Go
Original at Gawker
• Fri, Jan 9
By STV · This Week in Awards Hell: Bashir stunned WALL-E. The PGA boosted. The WGA snubbed. The DGA sleepwalked. The people spoke (drunkenly). And Dakota Fanning became an Honorary Sista. · Weary Barbara Walters resolved to be nice to her View co-hosts in 2009. That could have gone better.
Dakota Fanning Goes for Aqua at The Palm Springs Film Festival Gala
Original at Batch! Please
• Tue, Jan 6
By Norell Alesse(batchplease@gmail.com) Dakota Fanning is slowly transforming herself into a budding fashionista, and it seems like she's already found her favorite red carpet style. Apparently Dakota likes strapless dresses with detailing at the bodice, like with the black dress with rosette detailing she wore to The Secre...
Dakota Fanning gives us another reason to like her
Original at Cele
• Tue, Nov 4
• 1 related articles
By Ceilidh Dakota Fanning is shown at a double Hollywood Star award ceremony for husband and wife producer/directors Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner on 10/16/08. Credit: WENN Dakota Fanning doesn’t see the need to grow up fast. She enjoys the process of growing up, but is happy to take her tim...
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The Secret Life of Bees
Original at stomptokyo.com
• Sun, Oct 19
By noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) The first thing we learn about 14-year-old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) is that she accidentally shot and killed her mother when she was four. This is the main memory she has of her mother, and her frequently drunk and abusive father, T. Ray (Paul Bettany) wants to keep it that way. He tells her t...
Review: The Secret Life of Bees
Original at Cinematical
• Fri, Oct 17
By Cinematical staff The Secret Life of Bees, adapted and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood from the best-selling book by Sue Monk Kidd, weaves racism and the civil rights movement around the story of Lily (Dakota Fanning), a young white girl taken in by three African-American sisters when she runs away fro...
Sara Vilkomerson's Guide to This Week's Movies: Southern Girls, Eastern Boys
Original at New York Observer
• Mon, Oct 13
By Sara Vilkomerson Adapted from the acclaimed Sue Monk Kidd novel and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Secret Life of Bees is set in the civil-rights-era South. Ms. Fanning plays Lily, tormented by her guilt and living with her cold and abusive father (a fantastic Paul Bettany). After one particularly...
New Movie Trailer: "Hounddog"Original at dirtywhorelebritynews (WordPress)
• Tue, Sep 30
By Mistress D A provocative Southern tale set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, "Hounddog" is the story of a spirited young girl (Dakota Fanning) and her struggle to rise above the repression that surrounds her. Also stars Piper Laurie, David Morse, Jill Scott, and Robin Wright Penn. The filmmaker is s...
Police Brutality Strikes Keira, Kate and Dakota at the Box Office
Original at Defamer
• Fri, Sep 19
By STV Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your official tastemaking Bible for everything new and noteworthy at the movies. The second week of the fall season offers another mixed harvest of Oscar bait, multiplex placeholders and indie hopefuls, none more eagerly anticipated than the hist...
"The Dakota Fanning rape movie"
Original at Salon
• Fri, Sep 19
By Jessica Wakeman So what is "Hounddog" about, really? It's a touching and beautiful film about the tragedies that befall the broke but not broken in 1950s Alabama. It's also a richly feminist film, one of the few movies in which a young woman's burgeoning sexuality is not merely treated as titillation. Lewe...
Police Brutality Strikes Keira, Kate and Dakota at the Box Office
Original at Gawker
• Thu, Sep 18
By STV Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your official tastemaking Bible for everything new and noteworthy at the movies. The second week of the fall season offers another mixed harvest of Oscar bait, multiplex placeholders and indie hopefuls, none more eagerly anticipated than the hist...
Opinion: Hounddog
Original at Rolling Stone
• Thu, Sep 18
Rating: 0 Stars Starring: Dakota Fanning, Piper Laurie, David Morse, Robin Wright-Penn, Jil... Review: This ain't the old Dakota Fanning rape movie they showed at Sundance nearly two years ago to a rain of critical revulsion. This is the re-edited Dakota Fanning rape movie that re-emerges...
February 23rd, 2008 - Happy Birthday Dakota Fanning!
Original at Outside The Beltway | OTB
• Sat, Feb 23
By Allie Fanning is the older sister of Elle Fanning, also an actress. Fanning’s mother had wanted to name her “Hannah” and her father wanted to name her “Dakota”; she has always used Dakota among her friends and family. Fanning is of half German descent and Irish origin. Fanning and her family are mem...
Dakota Fanning: No One's Valentine
Original at Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
• Wed, Feb 13
By John-David Brown She may have captivated some people in movies like I am Sam and War of the Worlds, but I think that Dakota Fanning is an ugly hack who is, amongst other obvious things, very undateable. While there are millions of reasons why nobody ...
The Fab Five
Original at topix.net
• Sun, Dec 9
1 It can't be easy to hold your own against fantastical features, elaborate special effects and Nicole Kidman -- especially when you're only 13 years old and have never before acted in a film. But in The Golden Compass, the wonderful Dakota Blue Richards proves a graceful and surprisingly...
Podcast: Thrill Seeker Max Discovers Man vs Wild. And Dakota Fanning and Miley Cyrus Please Email Max And Be On His Show!!!
Original at Kid Power Radio
• Sat, Jun 16
I'd like to give 4 special shout outs to my friends at Drama Camp... Rebecca, Lindsay, Robert, Sophie Dakota Fanning if you're listening email me, please! Special shout out to Bob Barker for 35 years on The Price is Right! Saw the last show you did an awesome job.
A Letter to Dakota Fanning from Jodie Merson, Former BFF.
Original at CollegeHumor
• Tue, Jun 12
It’s Jodie. Jodie Merson from Grover Creek Elementary. Remember me?� We went to elementary school together before you moved off to Hollywood to become a big f*cking star.� Still don’t remember me?� Well, just to refresh your memory, I’m the girl who beat you for the role of the Blue Fairy in ou...
The Untitled Dakota Fanning Rape Project Gets A Title: UPDATE [Dakota Fanning]
Original at Defamer
• Tue, Dec 26
By Seth Of course, should the licensing rights to the Elvis material prove cost ineffective, last minute rewrites can always turn Fanning's character into a diehard Engelbert Humperdinck fan at a price that would fit well within their budgeting constraints. The Movie: Hounddog [OhNoTheyDid...
Griffin Vs. Spielberg: The Dakota Apology
Original at Defamer
• Mon, Jan 9
By Mark With the War of the Worlds publicity tour's instant transformation into the Tom, Katie, and L. Ron Roadshow, we quickly forgot that eerily precocious master thespian Dakota Fanning was even in the film. This morning, however, Page Six cites a W magazine interview in which former E! red car...
Waiting For Dakota [Dakota Fanning]
Original at Defamer
• Mon, Oct 24
By Mark Dakota Fanning is bigger than the Beatles. Are we overstating her current popularity? We are not. When Richard Gere abandons the Dalai Lama to follow young Fanning around, finding her rare combination of preadolescent gravitas and lack of oppressive moralizing refreshing, you will tha...
War of the Worlds (2005) review
Original at f911tix.com
• Sun, Sep 4
By Administrator If you like action, War of the Worlds is a must-see movie. Starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning in this almost 2 hour visual effects-packed science fiction movie, an updated adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel. The movie is directed by Steven Spielberg.
Dakota FanningWatch: Child Star Unafraid Of Low Health Ratings! [Gossip]
Original at Defamer
• Fri, Apr 15
By Mark UPDATE: A person who would have knowledge of such matters denies that the young culinary adventurer mentioned here is Dakota Fanning. Says the naysayer, "She's been in Australia the past 2 months shooting Charlotte's Web and hasn't been back to LA during that time." Wherever she is, we can...