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At Long Last: That Fred Durst Feature
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As I'm sure you all remember, late last year Fred Durst told MTV about his rather impressive cinematic ambitions. And
I quote: "I want to
be beside Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson and Francis Ford Coppola. I'm a real
director." Make no mistake about it, haters, Durst has big plans. And now, finally, The Education of Charlie Banks, Durst's long-discussed feature
debut, is going ahead. The movie, which has a budget of about $10 million, was written by Peter Elkoff, and revolves
around "a Vassar College [Holla!] student who gets an unannounced visit from the scariest kid from his old New
York neighborhood." (What Vassar has to do with it is anyone's guess, but I'm preparing to be offended.)Durst has scored a surprisingly solid young cast for his film, including Jesse Eisenberg (the big brother from The Squid and the Whale), who will play Banks, and two of the shockingly talented male leads from Joan of Arcadia, Jason Ritter and Chris Marquette. The movie starts filming this June and, with those stars and a $10 million budget, Durst has a great start on that movie career of his. He better not screw it up, dammit.
Tamblyn Exhibits Normal Adolescent Behavior
Filed under: Comedy », Independent », Casting », New Line », Newsstand », Cinematical Indie »
There's no moss on Amber
Tamblyn. (Is that an expression, or did I just make it up?) In the roughly two years since the dearly departed
Joan of Arcadia stopped filming, she's had two films
released, and has another three in various stage of production, including The Grudge 2. To this point, her post-Joan output has
been a canny mix of the commercial (the afore-mentioned Grudge sequel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and the indie (Stephanie Daley, the forthcoming Spiral), and her latest job suggests that pattern will
continue.Tamblyn has signed on to star in Normal Adolescent Behavior, the debut feature from screenwriter Beth Schacter. A New Line production, the film is described as a "darkly comic look at sexual politics among precocious and privileged teenagers," and sounds like yet another solid choice for a (really) young woman who either has brilliant advisers or is preternaturally wise when it comes to her career -- it'll be great to see her take on what sounds like a deliciously catty, nasty role.
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