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Finally, Someone Claims Responsibility For Joaquin Phoenix’s Terrible Hoaxing
9:39AM Kyle Buchanan | There is a man in this photo with Joaquin Phoenix. Learn his face, for he may be the dark wizard conjurer behind Phoenix’s career transformation into a trainwreck. More »
Watch Oprah Winfrey Stifle the Urge to Bash Gwyneth Paltrow’s Skull In With a Panini Press
8:24AM Seth | We’ve already shared with you Joaquin Phoenix’s flea-ridden performance art; now, onto the next chapter of Two Lovers‘ doomed PR assault, in which Gwyneth “Fuck the Haters!” Paltrow describes for Oprah her dieting regime. More »
Joaquin Phoenix’s Director Recalls His Screamy, Charcoal-Eating Commitment
5:15AM Kyle Buchanan | If you had any doubts that Joaquin Phoenix will push his hoaxy rapper persona into the depths of career ignominy, let his Two Lovers director fill you in on his insane level of commitment. More »
Gwyneth Paltrow Unimpressed By Joaquin Phoenix’s Cinematic Rapping
7:15AM Kyle Buchanan | If Joaquin Phoenix really hopes to convince the world that he’s the world’s greatest undiscovered rapper (and not simply its least essential hoaxer), he may have to start with winning over Gwyneth Paltrow. More »3:25AM Defamer Hollywood | As if Page Six’s blind items weren’t problematic enough, NY Post film critic Lou Lumenick last week offered a fun one from Cannes that found our refined hunch-dar betraying us. “Members of the press were lining up at the entrance to the announced venue well more than a hour before [Two Lovers] began,” he wrote. ” ‘I’m not going to wait an hour for f—-ing James Gray,’ one major U.S. film critic declared, before storming off, of the film’s American director, who is much more popular among critics in Europe than he is in his native country.” There’s a pretty short list of “major U.S. film critics” these days anyway, but the anecdote provoked visions of the NY Times‘ Manohla Dargis protesting to the Cannes overlords. However, as Dargis assured us this morning, “storming” is not her style; she indeed waited an hour just like everyone else for fucking James Grey. So it’s back to the blind-item drawing board for us, alas. Was Rex Reed at Cannes? [Defamer] More »
Americans Need Balls, Indies Need Buyers as Chilly Cannes Winds Down
9:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Where are the big spenders this year at Cannes? After a 2007 buying spree that topped out with Universal snagging We Own the Night for a whopping $11.5 million, only one distributor has made any considerable investment in the current crop of selections — IFC Films, which made news Wednesday by acquiring the acclaimed Irish drama Hunger, its seventh buy in as many days. And even its other deals — an international mash-up including A Christmas Tale (France), Chaser (S. Korea) and the American indie The Pleasure of Being Robbed — are slated for minimal theatrical play as they funnel into IFC’s day-and-date on-demand circuit.
