Joaquin Phoenix Attached to New Spike Jonze Project

Joaquin Phoenix Attached to New Spike Jonze Project

Back in March, Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures acquired an untitled project that was to be helmed by writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the same team behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation....  read more

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Amy Adams to Join Cast of Scientology Movie

Amy Adams to Join Cast of Scientology Movie

Amy Adams is formally set to star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Scientology project....  read more

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Joaquin Phoenix May Appear In Paul Thomas Anderson Project

Joaquin Phoenix May Appear In Paul Thomas Anderson Project

Joaquin Phoenix may be coming out of “retirement,” as the actor is in early talks to appear in a Scientology drama....  read more

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Joaquin Phoenix Returning to Acting as a Vampire Hunter?

Joaquin Phoenix Returning to Acting as a Vampire Hunter?

After Joaquin Phoenix withdrew from acting in October 2008, he grew a beard, started rapping and began acting like a world-class weirdo. Casey Affleck made a thoroughly-watchable documentary about it and then admitted it was all a hoax, which technically means Phoenix never left acting at all. We think....  read more

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Five People Who Would Better Host MTV's New Punk'd Than Justin Bieber

Five People Who Would Better Host MTV's New <em>Punk'd</em> Than Justin Bieber

Not that we don’t appreciate Justin Bieber in a weird way, but it’s just that we think MTV could do a little better job selecting the host of the forthcoming, revived Punk’d. Although it would allow culture commentators to verb Bieber on the regular, we think the following folks would better head up the new Punk’d. After all, The Bieb’s doing just fine with his day job, thank you very much....  read more

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5 Great Performance-Art Hoaxers

5 Great Performance-Art Hoaxers

Joaquin Phoenix’s foray into rap is arguably better as publicity stunt than convincing hoax, especially after the too-weird-to-be-true Letterman appearance. Now that Casey Affleck has officially revealed the whole thing as a lark, here’s a look at some artists who know (or knew) how to pull-off a believable ruse....  read more

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Casey Affleck Says I'm Still Here is Fake

Casey Affleck Says <em>I'm Still Here</em> is Fake

File this under “Things Everyone Sort of Already Knew”: In a recent interview with the New York Times, director Casey Affleck admitted that his movie I’m Still Here is not real....  read more

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Joaquin Phoenix to Appear on Letterman ... Again

Joaquin Phoenix to Appear on <em>Letterman</em> ... Again

Considering “rapper” Phoenix’s last go-‘round on Letterman in February 2009, a do-over probably wouldn’t be the worst idea....  read more

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11 Documentaries Coming to Theaters & DVD in Fall 2010

11 Documentaries Coming to Theaters & DVD in Fall 2010

A decade ago, this would have been a list of Documentaries Your Video Store Might One Day Carry...  read more

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Watch the Trailer for Joaquin Phoenix's Rap Documentary I'm Still Here

Watch the Trailer for Joaquin Phoenix's Rap Documentary <em>I'm Still Here</em>

We know what you’re probably thinking: The fame, fortune and drama of Hollywood have gotten to Joaquin Phoenix, right? There’s no doubt that under that scraggly mess of a beard and matted locks there hides a once-sane person, right? Well, perhaps not....  read more

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