Trailers
Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning) has struck out on her own in “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness” — she’s running a detective agency and her help is sought when a child goes...
Dakota Fanning helps refugees reunite with their loved ones in a new trailer for “Sweetness in the Belly.” An adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s 2005 novel of the same name,” the pic...
Films
Dakota Fanning’s latest has secured distribution. Gravitas Ventures landed U.S. rights to Fanning-starrer “Sweetness in the Belly,” an adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s 2005 novel...
Elle Fanning is re-teaming with her “Galveston” director, and this time she’ll be joined by her sister, Dakota Fanning. The pair are signed on to topline Mélanie Laurent’s...
Festivals
Venice Film Festival has announced the offerings for this year’s Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a “dedicated program of film screenings and revealing conversations by some of the most exciting...
Features, News, Women Directors
Amy Berg is a critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her documentary “Deliver Us From Evil” (2006). The film...
News
Dakota Fanning and Helen Hunt will star in the road-trip drama “Please Stand By.” Fanning will play an autistic genius who escapes her care facility to enter her screenplay in a screenwriting...
News, Videos, Women Directors
A trailer has arrived for Amy Berg’s psychological thriller “Every Secret Thing,” starring Elizabeth Banks, Diane Lane, Dakota Fanning and Danielle Macdonald (“2 Broke Girls”). The film...
News, Trailers, Videos
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News, Women Writers
The annulment of the marriage between prominent art critic John Ruskin and his much younger wife Effie Gray was a scandal in Victorian England, not least because Gray contended that their five-year...
Interviews, News
Very Good Girls, the first directing effort from veteran screenwriter Naomi Foner, is a nostalgic look at girls on the cusp of womanhood. While it is set in contemporary times, the girls, with...
Following on the heels of Elizabeth Olsen’s Godzilla and Dakota Fanning’s Night Moves is the directorial debut of veteran screenwriter Naomi Foner. Very Good Girls, also penned by Foner, stars...
Features, News
Former child-actor prodigy Dakota Fanning has gone from starring in films to critiquing them. The current NYU student, who’s a women’s studies major with an emphasis on studying “the portrayal...
After gaining notice for Wendy and Lucy and Meek’s Cutoff, her small but critically acclaimed collaborations with actress Michelle Williams, director Kelly Reichardt has made the...
Charlize Theron has never been shy about criticizing the film industry’s relative lack of interesting roles for women. Back in 2008, she told The Guardian, “People just aren’t willing to see...
A French trailer has been released for Kelly Reichardt’s fifth feature, the eco-thriller Night Moves. Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, and Peter Sarsgaard star as a trio of extreme...
Out of Toronto, Cinedigm has acquired the rights to Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard. This is the third women directed film to...
News, Videos
Premiering on You Tube’s WIGS channel this Friday is Celia — a short film about reproductive rights starring Dakota Fanning and Allison Janney. Written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia (also a...
News, Trailers, Videos, Women Directors
Dakota Fanning all grown up and falling in love Yahoo! Video Player Opens in the UK on May 25. US who knows? h/t Playlist
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