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Actress Gets Same Strange Expression Every Time She Thinks About Hounddog
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Dakota Fanning Carefully Studies Teen Mating Habits
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 »
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Psychic Dakota Fanning Sadly Didn't See Drew Barrymore's Steamroller Coming
Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your guide to everything new, noteworthy and neither here nor there at the movies. This week: America's Into You, Oscar shorts go to war, and Push comes to shove. More »
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By STVComment by RomeoGeryon: The writing here tries too hard to be witty or edgy or something. The articles are difficult to digest because... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Dakota Fanning Unveils Precocious, Advanced-For-Their-Age Gams
Dakota Fanning has thus far built a whole career out of appearing unsettlingly wise for her age on screen. Now, she aims to befuddle in a whole new way. More »
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Comment by jwick25: So wait, as a child, she acted like a 60-year old, and as a teenager, she's wearing onesies? 1 Responses | Other threads
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The Life Cycle Of A Hollywood Actress In 2.5 Minutes
Last night, Dakota Fanning visited The Tonight Show, where the trajectory of the 14-year-old's career was thoughtfully illustrated by host Jay Leno. [Jezebel]
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Dakota Fanning Out For Blood
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 »
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By STVComment by RocketRockit: I will now air my Twilight nerdliness. Dakota is perfect for Jane. Like, seriously, this is the best... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Dakota Fanning is the New Black
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 »
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5 Reasons the 'Push' Movie Poster Makes Us Want to See Anything But 'Push'
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Violent Mark Wahlberg Kicks Dogs, 'W.' Out of His Way at Multiplex
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-colored 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 »
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By STVComment by NoWireHangers: I might see W. I didn't think I would, but now I'm curious to see the Cheney and Condie impressions. more » | Other threads
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EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Fanning's 'Diva' Director Sets the Record Straight
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 »
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Comment by Victor Ward: Please somebody watch WINGED CREATURES, I will photoshop a picture of Dakota with cocaine if you watch WINGED CREATURES, she'll... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Dakota Fanning A Diva From Hell, Claims Her Latest Director
The rollout of Dakota Fanning 2.0 had been going so well (aside from one rapey speedbump): 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 » -
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Dakota Fanning to Bring Preternatural Poise to Real-Life Role as High School Cheerleader
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-ass that, either; she's joined the cheerleading team, and Oprah's got the picture to prove it. Abigail Breslin, eat your heart out! More »
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Police Brutality Strikes Keira, Kate and Dakota at the Box Office
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 historically skeevy Dakota Fanning 2.0 drama Hounddog. But we'll get to that momentarily, along with this week's worthwhile DVD releases and an all-call for your own recommendations. As always, our opinions are our own — in times like these, who really wants to share? More »
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By STVComment by jerebo: Fright Night. Midnight. Nuart. Director and cast in attendance. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Hollywood, Say Hello To Dakota Fanning 2.0
After a self-imposed exile that had many wondering if—shunted aside by the younger and even more precocious Abigail Breslin—she'd perhaps moved to Japan to begin the second phase of her career as a celebrity spokesperson for a popular chain of capsule hotels, Dakota Fanning has reemerged into the public eye. And what a spectacular transformation! Almost no traces of her larval stage as the child prodigy actress who screamed her way to greatness in War of the Worlds still exists. Now 14, the actress stars in The Secret Life of Bees—a sort of Waiting to Exhale meets the opening scenes of The Jerk, with Fanning playing a neglected girl taken in by three African-American sisters, played by Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Keys. More »
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By SethComment by TheQuestion: Pretty girl. Somebody please keep the Hollywood Sleaze Machine away from her. I'd really love to see ONE Hollywood kid... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Tom Cruise and The Bizarre Gifts That Keep Giving (Giving His Friends The Creeps, That Is)
What fun it must be to have a baby, get married, or turn one year older if you’re lucky enough to be chummy with Village People Fan Club president Tom Cruise. As a card-carrying member of Tom’s inner circle of disco-dancing Xenu-fearing tribe of pals, new mom Nicole Kidman had the joy of receiving one of Cruise’s trademark lavish gifts — as People reports, the birth of little Sunday Urban prompted Nicole’s ex-partner in bearded crime to send over a huge “high-end” gift basket filled to the brim with fancy baby must-haves. But after reviewing Tom’s history of gifting his nearest and dearest with incredibly bizarre and, at times, inappropriate items, we suspect his inclusion of “Giraffe baby blankets” might actually be a subtle swipe at Kidman’s tendency to resemble the long-necked drowsy animal. Cruise’s unnerving presents of the past to fellow Tom-ophiles like Dakota Fanning and Katie Holmes, after the jump. More »
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Comment by FlangeSqueal: This picture of the twisted rictus the Teeny One sports proves he is incapable of closing his chiclet-toothed mouth. What a... more » | Other threads
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The Tabloid Class of 2010
Celebrity gossip. Some of us love it, some of us hate it. Most of us, though, sort of love to pretend to hate it but secretly love it. Though, admit it, lately it's been a bit staid. Everything now just seems a bit tired (or, you know, British). So is celebrity gossip really dead? For our sake, we hope not. And, really, we don't think it is. We're just in a time of change, the old guard is leaving and a new, squeaky foaming-at-the-mouth group of celebutantes is entering. People are so very tired of Britney, she does nothing but ride tiny cars these days, and Lindsay Lohan seems actually (shriek!) sorta cleaned-up and is working. So let's get on with the new ones. But who will they be? Well, as is (sigh) clearly evident, young starlets will get the brunt of gossip's harsh glare, but there will be some men, too. Find our picks for 16 of America's next top freak idols after the jump. More »
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You Could Already Have Won in the 'Dakota Fanning Rape Movie' Sweepstakes
The quarterly news cycle addressing Hounddog — a/k/a Untitled Dakota Fanning Rape Project — appears to have fired back up again today, when we read that the Southern-Fried Scourge of Sundance '07 will not receive its planned July 15 release after all. Instead, distributor Empire Film Group will unleash the film on Sept. 5 — the dumping ground better known as Labor Day weekend. While we can't wait for Empire's "early-Oscar-season" spin, we're actually far more intrigued by the pledge for Hounddog's eventual home-video eternity: More » -
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The Top 25 Child Stars -Or- How to Turn Your Kid Into An F'ed-Up Commodity
Some people think that agents, executives and Anthony Pellicano are the most evil people in Hollywood. But watch Vh1's I Know My Kid's a Star for ten minutes and you'll see who the real villains are: Stage parents. More » -
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Breaking Report Confirms AWOL Child Star 'Mama Dakota' is Safe, Still Working
Having done our homework about dedicated Hollywood recluses over the last few days, we can assert with 100 percent certainty that despite her disappearance after the Park City clusterfuck that was Hounddog, Dakota Fanning is no John Hughes or Terrence Malick. Nevertheless, while this somewhat frightening video passed along by MTV (with its insistent English narrator positing: "Was she scared off by the negative press for Hounddog, or did she simply run and hide because she hit that awkward pubescent stage? Because it seems like all the little girl roles lately have been filled by others!") helps allay our worst DakotAWOL fears, what replaces them is perhaps eerier than any exile we could have imagined. More »
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By STVComment by hissykitty: Once her orthodontic issues have been sorted & if she avoids the pitfalls of bad plastic surgery,drugs ( Hello MK... more » | Other threads
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'Hounddog' Conveniently Distilled Down to Most Watchable Three Minutes
Perhaps only proving the adage that the harder you try, the dumber you look, the recently released trailer to rape-prevention spokesteen Dakota Fanning's soon-to-be-released Hounddog gathers three minutes of short-eyed, Southern-fried auteurist poetry in one skeevy bundle for your viewing pleasure. More » -
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Fanning Sisters Exit Movie Due To Creative Hairstyle Differences
In a shocking—shocking!™—development destabilizing the world of preternaturally talented child actresses whom Hollywood will suck dry before their 18th birthdays and banish to SAG's Not-So-Cute Anymore Halfway House in Reseda, both Dakota and Elle Fanning have abruptly exited the film My Sister's Keeper, the project that would have represented the sisters' first cinematic collaboration since sharing a character in I Am Sam. More »
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By MarkComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: I can only imagine the inevitable cat fight (and one-sided hair-pulling) when these vicious she-devils run into each other in... more » | Other threads
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Great news for all FanningWatchers disappointed in preternaturally talented teen megastar Dakota's meager cinematic output of the past year: the Sundance debut of little sister Elle's Phoebe in Wonderland could spark a return to Hollywood prominence for the clan. And: the movie's completely rape-free, demonstrating that the family's handlers learned their lesson about pushing their earners towards too-mature material from the fallout accompanying the Sundance screenings of Dakota's noble-intentioned, but poorly received, molestation-preparedness film, Hounddog. [LAT Live From Park City] -
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Jamie Foxx Already Preparing Next Oscar Speech
· Jamie Foxx effectively pre-nominates himself for a future Oscar by signing on to star in the DreamWorks drama The Soloist, based on a true story of Nathan Ayers, a homeless, schizophrenic Julliard dropout who plays his violin and cello on the streets of downtown LA, and who developed a special friendship with LAT columnist Steve Lopez. Our hearts are already warmed on the logline alone. [Variety] More » -
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It may already be too late to save Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin from a regrettable Fanningization by the Hollywood machine: "'The greatest thing about Abigail is that she takes direction,' the hunky actor [Aaron Eckhart], who plays a lovable chef, told us. 'She's so smart. She understands the whole script thematically. Most child actors can't do that. They just recite lines their parents recite with them in the hotel room.'" [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]
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defamer
Hollywood Ready To Devour New Generation Of Wholesome Teen Actresses
Positing that the public might be growing tired of the Lohan/Hilton/Spears class of troubled starlet and that the industry is ready to pump out a more wholesome, less frequently rehabbed product to capture the tween entertainment dollar, the LAT looks at the "new wave" of Hollywood good girls, including Nancy Drew's Emma "Aunt Julia Would Produce My Movies Even If We Weren't Related" Roberts, Nim's Island's Abigail Breslin, and the Charlize Theron-approved AnnaSophia Robb. The article's true focus is the impeccably pedigreed, terrifyingly ambitious Roberts, who's so precocious she's already bored with the whole imminent movie stardom thing: More » -
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Lindsay Lohan: The Heartbreaking Slideshow
With Lindsay Lohan safely chained to a solid-gold radiator at Promises Malibu and the orderlies assigned to her care instructed never to spike her delicious wheatgrass-and-ipecac detox smoothies with Bacardi, no matter how extravagant the bribe offered, all Lohan coverage for the next 28 or so days will probably be limited to recaps of the events leading up to this weekend's spectacular flameout or forward-looking attempts to discern What It All Means for Other Substance-Abusing Starlets Who'd Kill For This Kind of Media Attention, Even If They Have To Drunkenly Mow Down A Valet at Hyde To Get It. More » -
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'Exhausted' Fanning To Take Year Off After Post-Nick Meltdown
Each time Dakota Fanning's handlers promised that their preternaturally talented, thirteen-year-old money-maker was more than mature enough to handle the psychological demands of that rape movie, we really wanted to believe them. But in our heart of hearts, we knew that she was just a Kid's Choice award away from snapping under the immense pressure and emptying an automatic weapon at an after-party in a tragic cry for help. More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Jim Carrey Tries Doing The Comedy Thing Again
· CAA takes the first steps in building ice-cold new client's Jim Carrey confidence back up, working to book him in the easy comedy gig Me Time, in which he'd play a put-upon, Mr. Mom-style househusband. [Variety] More » -
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Alan Arkin: Hollywood's Voice Of Reason
One of the last things we saw before we collapsed head-first into our laptop mere moments after the final credits rolled on the Oscar telecast was this press release from Access Hollywood, concerning the virtue-protecting jinx eventual Best Supporting Actor usurper Alan Arkin put on precocious co-star Abigail Breslin: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: 'The Disabled Fanning Sisters Project' Announced
· Mark off May 22, 2008 on your calendars, for that's the day that Indiana Jones 4: Short Round, I'm Really Getting Too Old For This Shit hits theaters. Warner Bros. blockbuster hopeful Speed Racer is also scheduled to open over that long Memorial Day weekend, but we bet the movie will be mysteriously stricken by "post-production problems" that force a move to a safer release date. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by ottodaemon: I have doubts about the Fanning girls playing twins. Dakota will turn 13 in two weeks, while Elle is only... more » | Other threads
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Today In Fanningsploitation: Fashion N' Spam Edition
Even though it seems that preternaturally talented rape-prevention spokesperson Dakota Fanning is maturing normally, her agents know all too well that the onset of puberty could still bring a career-crippling case of Osmentism, and are aggressively exploring all options for capitalizing upon their client's current high profile. At left, as pointed out by the Copyranter blog, Fanning turns up in the March issue of Elle as the fresh, pre-teen face of Marc Jacobs; at right, Team Fanning gets creative with a mass e-mail campaign jointly promoting hotly discussed Sundance entry Hounddog and some exciting penny-stock investing opportunities. More »
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By MarkComment by TheStarterWife: Holy crap... I actually got that spam email today. Subject - 'temple newcomer'. So she's taking up Kabbalah? (I always love... more » | Other threads
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Dakota Fanning's Rape Scene: The Shooting Script
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 soundbites about its moral equivalency to the fellating of an aroused Martin Luther King Jr. statue and counter-soundbites concerning the tastefulness of its non-child-endangering execution. Should you wish to explore the matter further and become a better-informed critic (or defender) of Team Fanning's attempt to push her over the "adolescent hump" and into mature, Oscar-winner territory, Smoking Gun has obtained the relevant Hounddog script pages, complete with the subtle symbolism of quivering young hands being bloodily impaled on the rusty nails of lost innocence and punctuating flashes of dramatic lightning one might expect to find in such a scene. As we are fond of saying when we send you off to experience something that you should not actually enjoy: Enjoy. More » -
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Dakota Fanning To Take Over Own Public Relations Responsibilites
Perhaps prompted to comment after being more psychologically scarred by Catholic League Righteous Outrage Coordinator William Donahue's conjuring of the image of the oral servicing of a statue of a tumescent Martin Luther King than by anything in the Sundance movie in which her character is controversially raped, 12-year-old thespian Dakota Fanning finally spoke out on the fading uproar over Hounddog: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Martin Luther King, Jr Dragged Into 'Hounddog' Circus
· If you're trying to pinpoint the exact moment when the controversy over Sundance's Hounddog (aka, The Dakota Fanning Rape Project) officially became a circus, we recommend you consider this quote from Officially Outraged Catholic League Media Whore William Donahue, who refuses to see exactly what he's protesting: "If someone tells me that there's a statue of Martin Luther King with an erection receiving oral sex, I don't need to see it." [Variety] More » -
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The Untitled Dakota Fanning Rape Project Gets A Title: UPDATE
Regular Defamer readers are by now familiar with a certain indie drama whose progress we have been closely following, set to make its debut at the 2007 Sundance festival. What we've been referring to as the Untitled Dakota Fanning Rape Project—both for its preternaturally gifted and precocious star (Dakota Fanning), and the shocking yet Oscar-worthy act of violence at its center (her rape)—finally appears to have settled on a title: Hounddog. In an exclusive interview with Premiere magazine (it doesn't appear to be online yet, but an OhNoTheyDidn't reader was good enough to scan it in), director Deborah Kampmeier talks about her struggles since the details about her script were released to the press: Among other adjustments, she's had to hire someone just to "screen her hate mail"—a job most Hollywood agents traditionally refer to as "an assistant." She also opens up about the shooting of the actual rape: More »
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By SethComment by Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.: If I were Dakota Fanning (and I think about how that would be every day), I think I'd rather they... more » | Other threads
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Already Bored Of Acting, Dakota Fanning Planning Move Behind The Camera
While less dedicated, world-famous child stars would be content to fritter away the last moments of their pre-teen earning years by playing with solid-gold Barbie dolls or by getting a head start on a lifelong substance abuse problem, the preternaturally ambitious Dakota Fanning is already thinking several steps ahead in her already impressive career: More »
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By MarkComment by Bon Jour, Pee Wee: Well, there was that picture of her crying in public. more » | Other threads
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Sundance Preview: The Untitled Dakota Fanning Rape Project
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, pre-teen star was raving about how proud she was of her client's ability to convincingly portray the violent taking of her innocence: More »
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