Dakota Fanning

By Richard Rushfield The Runaways / USA (Director and screenwriter: Floria Sigismondi)–In 1970s LA, a tough teenager named Joan Jett connects with an eccentric producer to form an all-girl band that would launch her career and make rock history. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Scout Taylor-Compto...

By Richard Lawson Lil' Dakota Fanning going to a rehearsal for her Joan Jett movie; image via Bauer-Griffin]

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]

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 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 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...

By Mark Faster than you can say "Dakota Fanning Rape Project," the Toronto Film Festival screenings of Alan Ball's Nothing is Private should produce a level of buzz-building, pre-acquisition outrage unseen since the first reports that universally beloved/feared child star Fanning's cine...

By Mark And in an as-yet-untitled Southern gothic directed by Deborah Kampmeier ("Virgin"), Dakota Fanning plays a precocious girl in 1950's Alabama who sings and dances like Elvis Presley. But the film includes a scene in which the 12-year-old Miss Fanning's character is raped. Indeed, it sou...