Dakota Fanning

By STV 7:02: Condon, Mark and O'Brien accelerate the show by awarding Best Actor and Actress simultaneously, for which Philip Seymour Hoffman (Synecdoche, New York) and prohibitive favorite Dakota Fanning (Hounddog) deliver overlapping speeches in a magically Grobanesque performance...

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...

By Kyle Buchanan We'll admit that when we clicked on the HuffPo headline "Dakota Fanning Dons Jumpsuit For Letterman (PHOTO)," we were expecting some wacky Stupid Human Tricks that might involve harnesses and velcro walls. However, we'd forgotten that it's Dakota Fanning 2.0 that we're dealing with now...

By STV The latest franchise casting rumor features Fanning at its center, where the soon-to-be 15-year-old is reportedly circling the role of Jane in the forthcoming Twilight sequel New Moon. (NB: No rush casting your fall '09 tentpole, Summit Entertainment!) Jane is "a member of Italy’s Vol...

By Kyle Buchanan For a festival that too often programs films about young white boys sensitively coming of age or middle-class families dealing with grief, Push (not to be confused with the telekinetic Dakota Fanning movie) is almost bracingly exotic. It's the story of an overweight black teenager in Ha...

By STV 2. Rachel Dratch: As co-writer and co-star of the Midnight section highlight Spring Breakdown, Dratch is nominally on the hook for delivering a sort of inverted Sex and the City: Three terminally unsophisticated women (played by Dratch, Amy Poehler and Parker Posey) entrusted to chape...

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.

By STV Dakota Fanning was one of five Secret Life of Bees performers to score an Image Awards nod, joining fellow Best Actress contender Latifah, Supporting Actress candidates Sophie Okonedo and Jennifer Hudson, and Supporting Actor nominee Nate Parker. Their film also made the running for B...

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By Mark · While everyone's in an uproar over the Dakota Fanning rape movie at Sundance, no one's said anything about the one where Fanning rapes Rainn Wilson, a truly disturbing double-standard.

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By Mark · Pictured: At the press conference officially opening the 2007 Sundance Film Festival earlier this afternoon, Robert Redford addressed the media: "Hey, guys. Did you hear that we've got that movie where Dakota Fanning gets...how do I say this? Raped. Yeah, I know...heavy, powerful stuff. What...

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...

By Mark Yesterday, the new teaser trailer for Grindhouse, the upcoming Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez double-feature in which the directors finally allow their deeply buried fetishes for exploitation cinema to creep into their work, debuted on Yahoo (and then, naturally, was rele...

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By Mark Today's NY Times story on the films entered into competition at the 2007 Sundance Festival Of Film, Open Bars, And Swag Suites updated us on the journey of a project we first heard about in July, back when it was struggling for financing to complete the shoot and the agent of its talented, pr...

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By Mark Twelve short years ago on this very day, Hollywood history was changed forever by the birth of Hannah Dakota Fanning, the pint-sized actress who in just over a decade of life has already left an indelible imprint on the craft of acting. Let's all share a warm smile while we reflect upon the ch...

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By Mark Listen, Pipi Flavor-of-the-Month-Stockings. You're not going to be 12 years old and adorable forever, you got me? I'd say you've got about 18 months before people start saying, 'Get me a Dakota Fanning in Dreamer type,' your princess phone stops ringing like crazy, and your agent asks if...

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...

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By Mark Last week, an attentive reader let us know that Fanning was unafraid to imperil her health by dining in a restaurant that failed to meet the highest California health-code standards, a shocking game of Gastrointestinal Roulette that the tyke apparently won. (Don't get too cocky, kid, ev...

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...

By Mark · One of the many disturbing passages in today's AP profile of Dakota Fanning: "Besides DeNiro, Dakota has worked with an impressive list of actors: Sean Penn in 'I Am Sam,' Denzel Washington in 'Man on Fire,' Brittany Murphy in 'Uptown Girls.'" Once Fanning manages to land a role opposite...

By Mark Tucked away in the lower right-hand corner of E!'s home page is a link to this clarification about something said on the red carpet at the Golden Globes: (Look for the image copied here at left.) E! APOLOGY On Sunday, something was said on the red carpet regarding Dakota Fanning. E! Networks w...