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Kristen Stewart And Dakota Fanning Have Made Out

9:14PM Azaria Jagger | Kristen Stewart’s corruption of Dakota Fanning is complete, Joe Francis is filing for bankruptcy, and Kirstie Alley says Conan “acts like I bit his dick off”. Thursday’s gossip has castration anxiety. More »
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Dakota Fanning Carefully Studies Teen Mating Habits

12:11AM Richard Lawson | The actress needs to learn how to be people. So, she went to prom! Our favorite black person is growing up, and growing up means going to priggity-prom, y’all. In a wee pink dress. More »

Dakota Fanning Unveils Precocious, Advanced-For-Their-Age Gams

8:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Dakota Fanning has thus far built a whole career out of appearing unsettling wise for her age on screen. Now, she aims to befuddle in a whole new way. More »

Dakota Fanning Out For Blood

7:14AM STV | When there are no more Oscars, and there is no more Sundance, there will always be the phenomena behind Twilight. And Dakota Fanning will walk among them. More »

Dakota Fanning is the New Black

6:31AM STV | Among perennial nominees Tyler Perry, Will Smith and Queen Latifah, a flaxen-haired young star has emerged to stake her claim to NAACP Image Awards legend. More »

5 Reasons the ‘Push’ Movie Poster Makes Us Want to See Anything But ‘Push’

8:00AM STV | We’ve once again gathered Defamer’s blue-ribbon panel of movie-marketing insiders, this time to assess what’s gone wrong on the unfortunate new poster for the sci-fi B-thriller Push. More »

Violent Mark Wahlberg Kicks Dogs, ‘W.’ Out of His Way at Multiplex

1:30AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your one and only guide to everything new, noteworthy and potentially noxious at the movies. This week sees Oliver Stone officially establish the land-speed record for producing an Oscar contender, joined by skull-cracking Mark Wahlberg, sex-driving Seth Green and our diva-coloured underdog. As always, someone’s gotta lose; we’ll call our shot there, too, along with cherry-picking through a new crop of DVD’s. As always, our opinions are our own, but we have little doubt they would look great on you. Try them on after the jump. More »

EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Fanning’s ‘Diva’ Director Sets the Record Straight

5:00AM Kyle Buchanan | As a 14-year-old transitioning to more grown-up roles, child star Dakota Fanning has an important choice to make: Does she want to be a Jodie Foster or a Lindsay Lohan? (Also, lesbian leanings in former child actresses: discuss) We’ve always pulled for the precocious Fanning, so you can imagine how we felt yesterday when we discovered that Rowan Woods, the director of Dakota’s upcoming Winged Creatures, had called out the actress as a tantrum-throwing “diva” whose performance in the film turned out to be a “disaster” that necessitated some judicious editing. Today, Woods got in touch with us to present his side of the story: More »

Dakota Fanning A Diva From Hell, Claims Her Latest Director

2:40AM Kyle Buchanan | The rollout of Dakota Fanning 2.0 had been going so well: first, the 14-year-old actress made a series of glamorous appearances to support her new movie, The Secret Life of Bees, then she had even Oprah eating out of the palm of her hand with a few simple giggles and a glimpse of her attempt at a normal, cheerleading life. Was Fanning poised to be that rare child star who made the transition to serious actress with a minimum of fuss? Not so much! says Rowan Woods, the director of Fanning’s upcoming film Winged Creatures, who just gave an interview branding the young star as a “diva” whose scenes he had to cut: More »

Dakota Fanning to Bring Preternatural Poise to Real-Life Role as High School Cheerleader

9:10AM Kyle Buchanan | The steady rollout of Dakota Fanning 2.0 continues apace as the young actress hit up Oprah today to promote her new drama, The Secret Life of Bees. As a pre-teen, Fanning sometimes came off as robotically overprepared on the talk show circuit, but she felt much more relatable on Oprah — perhaps a pleasant side effect from the fact that she’s now eschewed home schooling to attend an actual high school. Typically, the studious Fanning isn’t about to half-arse that, either; she’s joined the cheerleading team, and Oprah’s got the picture to prove it. Abigail Breslin, eat your heart out! Also, after the jump, Fanning discusses shooting the film’s kissing scene — with Dixon from 90210, of all people. Silver’s gonna be pissed! More »