Submit item to News
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning Have Made Out
Original at gawker.com
• Thu, Nov 19
By Azaria Jagger Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning make out in The Runaways, and Dakota said they "were so into the scene." Dakota, who also co-starred with sulky Stewart in New Moon, continued: "It was passionate. We're playing Joan Jett and Cherie Curie and they're best friends in the film and became rea...
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 »
What do Twilight's New Moon stars Dakota Fanning and Cameron ...
Original at Examiner.com
• Mon, Jul 20
In the film Hounddog, Fanning's character is raped, and many felt it was inappropriate for a child actress to be portraying such a scene. ...
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 ...
Slouching Towards Hollywood: Fanning Rescues 'Hounddog;' Nothing ...
Original at California Chronicle
• Thu, May 14
Black Snake Moan" is a far better film overall than "Hounddog" but leading 12-year-old lady Dakota Fanning carries it like an iPhone. Left to her own ends, she's at home swimming in her underwear and walking in the tall grass, despite the snakes. ...
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 ...
John Polson and Russell Crowe show a little togetherness
Original at The Australian
• Tue, Mar 31
Australia Both Swimfan and Hide and Seek, a thriller starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning, performed well in the US. Polson describes the US films as "much more down-the-middle genre films, the big Friday night popcorn releases" that were fun to make. ...
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 ...
Fanning pushes beyond child roles
Original at Akron Beacon Journal
• Wed, Feb 18
OH By Angela Dawson HOLLYWOOD: No one finds it more amusing that Dakota Fanning has two movies coming out at the same time than the teenage actress herself. The blond wunderkind stars in Push, a gritty adventure set in Hong Kong. ...
Movie Review: Push
Original at Planet Blacksburg
• Sun, Feb 15
• 1 related articles
VA - Feb 15, 2009 His wishes to remain in hiding end when Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning, 2005's War of the Worlds & 2008's The Secret Life of Bees), a Watcher, seeks out Nick ...
Related articles from Chicago Tribune.
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
Psychic Dakota Fanning Sadly Didn't See Drew Barrymore's Steamroller ComingOriginal at Defamer
• 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...
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...
Dakota Fanning 'Hounddog' ready for DVD
Original at Examiner.com
• Thu, Feb 5
Dakota Fanning 'Hounddog' ready for DVD by Michael McGuire, SF Country Music Examiner Hounddog - the controversial 2007 movie starring Dakota Fanning - is scheduled for release on DVD later this ... Dakota Fanning is getting old OCRegister
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
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...
Darling Dakota doomed to be a Bonaduce
Original at The Brain Drain
• Fri, Dec 19
By Mitchell - Crumrine(noreply@blogger.com) The moment has come for Dakota Fanning to step back and let the world see that the new Dakota Fanning, just waiting in the wings, is Elle Fanning. In an industry that puts a premium on youth, why are buzzmongers so obsessed with 11-year-old Dakota, when Wee Elle is only seven and every bit as fr...
Dakota Fanning gives us another reason to like her
Original at Cele
• Tue, Nov 4
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...
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 As of 2007, her most well-known films have been War of the Worlds and Charlotte’s Web. In 2006, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the youngest person ever at the age of 12. Other February 23rd Birthdays:
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...
Pornography goes mainstream
Original at Blogger News Network
• Wed, Sep 12
By Nancy Reyes “Nothing Is Private” comes within a year of “Hounddog,” the film in which a 12-year-old girl (Dakota Fanning) is raped on screen. Of course, in that case it was really a 12-year-old. But something has definitely happened — a change has ...
My latest Dakota Fanning fake pic
Original at Former Naval Person
• Sun, Aug 12
By Jim I was inspired to try my hand again at another Dakota Fanning fake. After the Hounddog movie was released, it seemed like the obvious thing to do: make Dakota Fanning fakes. (This picture is based on a rather low-res picture of Jenny ...
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...
Dakota Fanning's Rape Scene: The Shooting Script [Dakota Fanning]
Original at Defamer
• Thu, Jan 25
By Seth Unless you happened to be at one of the Sundance screenings for infamous Dakota Fanning rape-awareness project Hounddog this week, your experience of the controversial scene depicting the tragic despoiling of America's Preteen Sweetheart is probably limited to hysterical soundbi...
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...