Dakota Fanning - Fanning Leads The Cheers At New High School
Teenage star Dakota Fanning has become a cheerleader at her high school. The I Am Sam star has only been attending a regular private high school for the past year after ...

Dakota Fanning is a Cheerleader at her School!
Cute actress Dakota Fanning just recently told the media that she’s become a cheerleader!  Dakota was homeschooled for most of her life but recently joined a private school and was looking to become more involved. “I am a cheerleader. Now everybody always wants me to do cheers.  It’s so funny.” Dakota is saying that she’s really enjoying spending time with the girls and rallying up school spirit! “Cheerleading is so much fun, especially at your school because you get

Fanning Leads The Cheers At New High School
Teenage star Dakota Fanning has become a cheerleader at her high school. The I Am Sam star has only been attending a regular private high school for the past year after being home schooled for six years, as her acting career took off - and she's already leading the cheers on the sports field. She says, "I am a cheerleader. Now everybody always wants me to do cheers. It's so funny. "Cheerleading is so much fun, especially at your school because you get such a sense of school spirit and you're proud

Dakota Fanning Is A Cheerleader
Awww, how cute is this?!?  Dakota Fanning really is that sweet little all American girl...she just became a cheerleader at her high school!  After being homeschooled for most of her life she recently started attending a private school and decided that she wanted to get involved. "I am a cheerleader. Now everybody always wants me to do cheers.  It's so funny." She's really getting a sense of community at her new school. "Cheerleading is so much fun, especially at your schoo

Fanning leads the cheers at new high school
Teenage star Dakota Fanning has become a cheerleader at her high school.

Dakota Fanning - Cinema Bosses Pull Fanning Film Over Rape Scene
Bosses at America's AMC theatre chain have pulled Dakota Fanning's new movie HOUNDDOG from their 5,117 cinemas across the U.S. over mounting pressure from family values ...

Dakota Fanning Leads The Cheers At New High School
Teenage star Dakota Fanning has become a cheerleader at her high school. The Secret Life Of Bees star has only been attending a regular private high school for the past year after being home schooled for six years, as her acting career took off-- and she's already leading the cheers on the sports field. She says, "I am a cheerleader. Now everybody always wants me to do cheers. It's so funny. Cheerleading is so much fun, especially at your school because you get such a sense of school spirit and you're pro

Dakota Fanning's a big kid now
So much for those awkward adolescent years! Dakota Fanning, now 14, was all grown up last night when she stepped out for the New York premiere of "Hounddog" in an elegant satin top, black skinny pants and patent peep-toe wedges.PHOTOS: SHE'S HOW OLD?! And it's not just her red carpet style that has Hollywood buzzing. The precocious child star is moving away from innocent roles and into more adult territory. "Hounddog," has been dubbed "the Dakota Fanning rape movie" since its press screening at the Sundanc

Poor Dakota Fanning Raped For Oscar and Nobody Cares
Poor Dakota Fanning wants an Oscar and nobody will give it to her. She is one of the few who knows how Martin Scorsese felt all those years, but don't worry he finally got his Dakota, and you will too. Fanning, who reached her full cunntiest potential at the age of 10, has hammed it up in every possible type of film since she was 8-years-old. Now 14, she is finished stealing all the good children roles and has turned her attention to more serious filmmaking like, The Secret Life of Bees, where she acts alo

Dakota Fanning Talks About Growing Up
The teen star opens up to OK! about everything from learning to drive to her embarrassing celebrity crush. At 14, actress Dakota Fanning is outgrowing the precocious little-kid roles that made her famous, but she tells OK! that one part of being an adult she isnâ??t rushing into is getting her driver's...

Dakota Fanning Rape Scene Is No Big Deal
Two years ago when news first broke that Dakota Fanning would be shooting a rape scene for her movie Hounddog, people reacted with such disgust you would've thought baby Jesus was being violated. Some speculated that Fanning was being "raped for Oscar

Dakota Fanning Film Pulled Over Rape Scene
Bosses at AMC theater chain have pulled Dakota Fanning's new movie Hounddog from their 5,117 cinemas across the U.S. over mounting pressure from family values groups upset about a rape scene in the film. Officials at Concerned Women For America are leading the charge to boycott the movie, in which Fanning's character is raped. The controversial Deborah Kampmeier film was supposed to hit movie screens late last year, but protests from family organizations led to legal investigations in certain parts of th

Film review: Hounddog
Nearly two years after a disastrous Sundance debut, the “Dakota Fanning rape movie” finally makes it to theaters.

An Unspeakable Act: 'Hounddog'
Known colloquially as "The Dakota Fanning Rape Movie" since its premiere at last year's Sundance Film Festival, Deborah Kampmeier's "Hounddog" arrives in theaters Friday after a long distribution struggle with a handicap that it just can't shake. Young Ms. Fanning plays Lewellen, a motherless 12-year-old growing up poor in the Deep South circa the mid-1950s. Living with her bitter grandmother (Piper Laurie) and disturbingly callous father (David Morse), Lewellen distracts herself from the...

Police Brutality Strikes Keira, Kate and Dakota at the Box Office [Defamer Attractions]
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 tim

Hounddog / ** (R)
"Hounddog" (R, 102 minutes). Dakota Fanning takes an impressive step forward in her career, but that's about the only good thing about "Hounddog." The reigning child star, now 14, handles a painful role with great assurance, even in a rape scene. But her character is surrounded by a swamp of worn-out backwoods Southern clichés than can't be rescued even by the other accomplished actors in the cast. With David Morse, Piper Laurie, Robin Wright Penn and Afemo Omilami. Rating: Two stars.

Posters: HOUNDDOG and GOOD DICK
What up, my peeps! I hope you guys are rockin’ as always… Look, I gotta be honest with, you in a few hours I’ll be flying up north so that’s gonna take up most of my morning, but as soon as I land and get internet connection, I promise I’ll entertain you with more awesome movie stuff even if it means I have to jack a modem from some stranger’s house. Meanwhile, Two new posters above (click on the images to enlarge) The first one, via traileraddict, is the new poster of H

Down South
Deborah Kampmeier’s Hounddog, from her own screenplay, has survived a disastrous screening of a rough cut at 2007’s Sundance Film Festival to open next week in New York. As Julie Bloom described this high-wire act in the Arts and Leisure section of the Sept. 14 Sunday New York Times, “It was known as the ‘Dakota Fanning rape movie’ [at Sundance]. The press screening for Hounddog elicited actual boos, not to mention eviscerating reviews. Even before that, evangelical groups protested the film after

Controversial Sundance film is reworked, finds distributor
Writer-director Deborah Kampmeier was nearly run out of Park City during last year's Sundance Film Festival after critics savaged her coming-of-age drama "Hounddog," in which a 12-year-old girl, played by Dakota Fanning, is raped by a much older boy.     Even before the film's premiere, such conservative groups as the Christian Film & Television Commission and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights strongly objected to the scene.     "People were petitioning to ha

DAKOTA AIN’T NOTHING BUT A HOUNDOG
Look who’s grown up into a veritable young Hollywood starlet — Dakota Fanning!! The 14-year-old actress attended the Hounddog premiere at the Village East Cinemas in New York City last night. Miss Fanning was joined by co-stars Kirsten Dunst and Robin Wright Penn. The hotly debated movie that drew protest from conservative critics for its inclusion of [...]

A Spaghetti Cat Imposter
Facebook has caught on to the Spaghetti Cat craze, which has officially legitimized the feline's celebrity. But unfortunately for SC, who is now featured in the SuperPoke application, he is being falsely represented by a Hello Kitty impostor (as accurately pointed out by rumor has it). Would it have killed the designers to at least make the cat black, if they weren't going to use the actual image of SC? This is an outrage. Sep 17, 2008 · posted by Whitney · Link &mid

'Hounddog': Woof, By Kurt Loder
"Hounddog" — yes, "the Dakota Fanning rape movie" — is a Southern Gothic gumbo of surpassing gaudiness, Kurt Loder writes.

Review: Hounddog
Short version: Were it not for the Dakota Fanning rape scene controversy, no one would be talking about this boring film. So you've heard all the talk, accusations and screaming about the film Hounddog (or as many spelling-impaired people are writing it: Houndog) screening at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival starring Dakota Fanning but haven't seen [...]

Film critic calls for boycott of films with explicit sex scenes of young girls
Washington, Sept 20 (ANI): Movieguide founder Ted Baehr has joined the ranks of protestors fighting against two movies featuring sexually explicit scenes involving two young girls. Baehr along with other protestors called for a box office boycott of the films "Hounddog", starring 14-year-old Dakota Fanning and "Towelhead", starring 18-year-old Summer Bishil. In "Hounddog", Fanning was depicted as a pre-teen girl who was raped, and the movie drew controversy when it appeared at the Sundance Film Festival la

US-FILM Summary (Reuters)
Reuters - In 2007, "Hounddog" went to the Sundance Film Festival carrying a controversy that made it the hottest ticket in town, but it left that January after getting a cold shoulder from film distributors and critics. But now, "Hounddog," starring young Dakota Fanning, is howling again with Friday's debut in U.S. theatres roughly 18 months after its difficult Sundance premiere, and few people are as happy as its writer and director Deborah Kampmeier.