So, it’s been made official - Dakota Fanning will star as “Jane” in ‘New Moon’.

Dakota Fanning is set to star in the Twilight sequel New Moon, EW has confirmed. The actress will play Jane, a member of Italy’s evil Volturi, in the anticipated movie, which opens in November. She had been in talks to appear in the film ever since she was offered the role in January. “It would be really cool to do it,” the 15-year-old Fanning told EW at the January premiere of her most recent release, Push, which was also produced by Twilight’s studio, Summit Entertainment. “I am a very big fan of the books. I read them all and Jane is an interesting part.”

The film is set to start shooting in Vancouver later this month. Still no word on who’ll be cast as Alec though.

Well, well, well.

Look who’s all grown up, gorgeous, and legs-tastic!

It’s Dakota Fanning, before a David Letterman appearance in NYC.

Wow, when did this happen? Dakota looks amazing. Stick your stupid Oscar nomination in these tiny shorts, Abigail Breslin.

Dakota’s only fourteen years old — but she’ll be fifteen on the 23rd.

I mean, this is definitely tasteful sexy … but is a look like this ever appropriate on a fourteen-year-old? Especially on a national stage?

I’m in that kind of a mood and I’m feeling more than my usual disturbed.

Am I off base, or does Dakota Fanning look way too adult for fourteen?  When I look at these pictures of her at the Push premeire in LA, she looks like a woman.  She’s even doing that Annie Leibowitz/Miley Cyrus over the shoulder glance thingy.  Her face looks young and thankfully she hasn’t had her teeth capped or whitened; it just seems like so much skin for a ninth grader.  As the senior citizen here at The Beet, I’m willing to accept that I’m probably just a prude.

Also there was Kimora Lee Simmons.  She’s knocked up by Djimon Hounsou who has been in Spielberg movies and shit, but will always be the hot guy from the Janet Jackson “Love Will Never Do(Without You)” video. Fugged up Rumer Willis appeared with red hair and Camilla Belle has solidified her position as my new girl crush.  If I was Joe Jonas, I totally would have picked her over Taylor Swift, too.  Okay, I gotta duck out of here before I get the “beet down” for bashing Tay.

The latest word coming out of Camp Twilight is that Dakota Fanning is likely to play the role of Jane in the new movie.

There were no auditions,” a source reveals. “They just offered it to her outright, and now they’re in negotiations. They’ve been going back and forth.”

Jane is a member of Italy’s Volturi, the most deadly group of bloodsucking killers in author Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling series.

In the casting notice we got our hands on earlier this month, Jane is described as a petite blonde with a “Botticelli angel-like face…[and] crimson irises.” While fellow Volturi guards Demetri & Felix “are three times the size of her, they are terrified of her,” the casting notice reads.

Coincidentally (or maybe not), an online petition started by a Twilight fan already asks the studio, Summit Entertainment, to cast Fanning because she would be “perfect” for the role.

Frankly, it does sound like Dakota would be perfect for this role.

Hell, I’m three times her size, and I’m terrified of her.

Dakota Fanning is totes “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” at the Palm Springs Film Festival Awards on Tuesday night. At 14, she’s finally starting to shed her little kid face, but it’s still there. (Compare this to Ali Lohan, who’s the same age but looks to be about 28.)

And I know we’re supposed to say “they grow up so fast!” and all, but, really, I feel like Dakota Fanning has been a little girl forever. That girl has had the longest damn childhood ever. Every time I hear about her, I’m like, “Man, Dakota Fanning must be so old by now” and then it turns out she’s still pretty much pre-pubescent.

Hurry up and age, Dakota. You’re sooooo boring like this.

Oooh, this is quite the treat!!!

After nearly seven years of hearing about what a fucking delight Dakota Fanning is on the set, it looks like someone’s finally willing to sell her out: Rowan Woods, the director of her new flick, Winged Creatures.

Woods said his high profile cast was a pleasure to work with except for teenage starlet Dakota Fanning, who could be a diva on the set.

She initially refused to come out of her trailer on day one of shooting because her scene wasn’t filmed first, and was “intensely jealous” of her young co-star Josh Hutcherson.

“Everyone was on their best behaviour on this film because they have got a `really serious Australian director who is known for his ensemble work’,” Woods laughed.

“(Fanning) was the only one who was naughty.”

Woods said while he thinks Fanning is a fine actor, on this film she didn’t hit the mark.

“She is a gorgeous girl … but she was the disaster,” he said. “There was something about her presence that wasn’t ringing true. Most of our work was cutting her scenes and a lot of her scenes were cut.”

I love it, I love it, I love it!!!!

I wanna hear more!!!

Dakota Fanning is all smiles at the New York premiere of her child-rape Oscar bait, Hounddog.

Thank Jesus this girl is finally beginning to look older than 10. It was getting creepy for a little while there.

Also there: Kirsten Dunst, wearing an outfit she found in a dumpster on the walk there.