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 Monday April 23, 2007 edition of  Daily Variety features the following article.

Spring Breakdown- Three life-long geeks (Amy Poehler, Parker Posey and Rachel Dratch) attempt to recapture their lost youth while chaperoning a teen during spring break on South Padre Island. With Amber Tamblyn, Seth Meyers, Sophie Monk, Missi Pyle and Jane Lynch. Screenplay by Ryan Shiraki, story by Dratch & Shiraki. Directed by Shiraki. Warner Bros., April 13

 

Look for Amber in the current issue of Nylon Guy's Magazine on newstands now. Here is a sneak peak of what you will find.

 

 

First Look: The Grudge 2
Amber Tamblyn delves into her dark side in a desperate search to find her sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar) in The Grudge 2.

By Jay A. Fernandez

PREMIERE: Did the shoot involve anything creepy?
Amber Tamblyn: There is a large chunk of the film where I do something physically exhausting. I ended up with a very strange pattern of bruises on my legs, like stripes.
Do you like watching horror movies?
I actually do. My father [actor Russ Tamblyn] 

  http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060820b.php

 

Elsewhere, 23-year-old Amber Tamblyn netted the best actress prize as the  

"Das Fraulein" Wins Golden Leopard Prize at '06 Locarno Fest

by Eugene Hernandez (August 13, 2006)
The 59th Locarno International Film Festival came to a close in Switzerland this weakened with Andrea Staka's "Das Fraulein" winning the Golden Leopard, the event's top prize (including a 90,000 CHF cash award). Ryan Fleck's "Half Nelson," which opened in U.S. theaters over the weekend, won the special jury prize at the festival (including a 30,000 CHF cash award). The festival's directing prize went to Laurent Achard for "Le Dernier des Fous."

In a director's statement, "Das Fraulein" filmmaker Andrea Staka called her first fiction feature a "personal film that connects my two worlds." While she grew up in Switzerland, her family's home country is the former Yugoslavia. She explained in the statement, "The film closely observes the lives of three modern women from different regions of a country that no longer exists, who are now living in Switzerland. Each of these women is burdened by an unspeakable sorrow within her." Continuing, Staka added, "With 'Das Fraulein', I wanted to explore displacement in our era; more and more people are moving between different cultures, be they refugees, travelers or simply the homeless."

Jurors included Chinese director Ann Hui, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, Italian director Antonio Capuano, German producer Peter Rommel and Japanese director Nobuhiro Suwa. They awarded the festival's best actress prize to Amber Tamblyn for her role in Hilary Brougher's "Stephanie Daley" and the best actor award to Burghart Klaussner for his role in Dito Tsintsadze's "Der Man Von Der Botschaft."

The festival's audience award went to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "Das Leben Der Anderen" from Germany. The film, set in East Berlin in 1984, is described as a thriller that looks at surveillance run by the German State police service, the Stasi.

In the Filmmakers of the Present Competition, Angelina Maccarone's "Verfolgt" from Germany won the Golden Leopard, while the Leopard for best first film went to Isabelle Czajka's "L'Anne Suivante" from France. The FIPRESCI film critics prize went to Young-Nam Kim's "Nae-Chungchun-Aegae-Goham" (Don't Look Back) from South Korea. 

EW has an article called "Do the Fright Thing" (on page 71) in which the Grudge II is mentioned. In the magazine there is a picture of Amber as well as Takako Fuji on the set of Grudge II. Make sure to check it out!

LOS ANGELES -- Amber Tamblyn, best known for her starring role in CBS' Joan of Arcadia, has joined the cast of the comedy feature Spring Breakdown.

The film revolves around three thirty-something friends who break the monotony of their uninspired lives by vacationing on an island that is a popular spring break getaway for college co-eds.

One of the women works for a powerful senator whose daughter is one of those co-eds, only she's as geeky as her chaperones. Tamblyn portrays the senator's daughter.

Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch and Parker Posey already are cast as the thirty-something friends.

Tamblyn, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated for her performance on Joan of Arcadia, next appears in The Grudge 2, due in October. She stars opposite Tilda Swinton in Stephanie Daley, which will open this year.