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The expectations for The Runaways movie premiering at the Sundance Film Festival next Sunday (January 24th) is very high. The movie stars Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, two teenagers in the 70’s who formed the all girl rock group that is still influential to this day.

Fanning’s portrayal of Currie is gaining lots of buzz - the young girl everyone watched as a child will take a bite out of adult stardom with this performance and solidify her transition away from kiddie parts and into the realm that many younger actors find elusive.

“I’m just portraying what was going on with [Cherie] when she was my age,” Fanning said. “I want to continue to act for my whole life. Eventually, everyone will have to let me grow up, somehow, some way. I’m just trying to let that happen as naturally as I can.”

She and Stewart have a great friendship thanks in part to this film (and of course, the Twilight films) and Fanning says that will show on screen. The make-out scene between the two characters will definitely get lots of ink.

What do you think? Ready to see Fanning and Stewart together? Or are you going to miss this all together and wait for Eclipse in June?

Twilight star Ashley Greene was on the verge of heading back to Florida until she landed the Alice Cullen role and her life has changed dramatically. Her New Moon costar Michael Sheen (Aro Volturri) quizzed her for Interview Magazine on what it’s like to be part of this huge franchise:

SHEEN: Now there’s so much more to this whole Twilight thing than just the films, isn’t there? There’s everything that goes with it—it’s a huge sort of phenomenon. What’s it like being right at the epicenter of that whole thing?

GREENE: [sighs] It’s a really hard thing to wrap your head around. I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in Twilight, put in my two weeks’ notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out. I did four independent films during the break between Twilight [2008] and New Moon. I haven’t even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it’s incredible.

The actress has lots of movies coming up: Skateland will show at the Sundance Film Festival in January and she has just found her leading man, Sebastian Stan, for the upcoming flick Apparition. Check out the rest of the interview - Sheen is quite funny with his questions.

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The Volturri are a big problem for the Cullens. The meanest of vampires, the coven is introduced to us in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Here is a clip giving us a sneak peek at the eternal bad guys of the night.

Get ready: ‘New Moon’ opens on November 20th.

Dakota Fanning graces the cover of Teen Vogue for December 2009. Here are a few excerpts fromThe Twilight Saga: New Moon & Eclipse star interview:

On maturing in Hollywood: “I’m going to get older. . . And I want to act for the rest of my life — it’s what I love — so I have to move forward with my career. The choices that I make might not always please everyone, but I have to do what I feel is appropriate and right for the time.”
On acting out: “I get my rebellion out through my movies. I’m boring in that way. I enjoy having a normal life.”
Kristen [Stewart] on Dakota: “Dakota is one of the most consistent actors I’ve ever worked with. I’m always better with her.”

Fanning is starring as the evil vampire Jane of the Volturri gang for The Twilight Saga films and will be in the musical biopic The Runaways with Kristen Stewart, due out in 2010.

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