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Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning ('The Runaways', 'Twilight')

By Scott W. Perry

In the past decade, Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart grew up before our eyes on screen to become the most successful child stars of the decade. Now grown up, Fanning, 16, and Stewart, 19, enter the new decade with their most challenging and ambitious work yet in capturing the essence of the two main members of The Runaways, Cherrie Curie and Joan Jett respectively.

03/17/10

'Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway' hits shelves March 16, 2010

Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway by Cherie Currie is about to hit bookshelves tomorrow, March 16th, 2010. Cherie Currie, with her signature Bowie haircut and fishnet stockings, was the groundbreaking lead singer of ’70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. At the tender age of fifteen, she joined a group of talented girls — Joan Jett and Lita Ford on guitar, Jackie Fox on bass, and Sandy West on drums—who could play rock like no one else.

Arriving on the Los Angeles music scene in 1975, they catapulted from playing small clubs to selling out major stadiums, headlining shows with opening acts like the Ramones, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, and Blondie. Currie lit up the stage with the provocative teen-rebellion songs “Cherry Bomb,” “Queens of Noise,” and “Born to Be Bad,” riding a wave of hit songs and platinum albums, all while touring around the world...

03/15/10

'The Devilles', 'Amer', 'The Runaways, and 'Punk Rock Barbershop' at SXSW

Nicole Horanyi's The Devilles, Georgia Sugimura & Kristin Armfield's Barbershop Punk, Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways, and Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Amer screen at the 2010

02/05/10

New images from Floria Sigismondi's 'The Runaways'; Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning

The new rock biopic The Runaways, written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, will screen at South by Southwest 2010 in Austin Texas, USA March 12-16 2010, and we've got some hot new images from the film.

The Runaways follows two friends, Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. Also starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Michael Shannon, Alia Shawkat, and Tatum O'Neal. Check out Dakota and Kristen...

02/05/10

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