I’ll spare you the part where I put a giant TOLDJA! in my headline, but since you’ll need an explanation to send your mom when she emails you this in two months, here’s the story behind the elementary school Scarface play video:

That hysterical (or horrifying) version of “Scarface” making the rounds with grade school kids playing all the parts and spewing the f-word…”fudge” — yeah, it’s not an actual school play. Instead, it’s the work of director Marc Klasfeld and Rockhard Films who did the videos for Lady Gaga’s “Pokerface” and Adam Lambert’s “For Your Entertainment.” It was produced in L.A. within the last few weeks and the audience members were a mix of cast family members, colleagues and friends.  As for Lil’ Tony and his co-stars, they were selected through a casting agent known for finding child actor look-alikes for adult stars.  [TMZ]

Klasfield explains:
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The delightfully bizarre trailer above, for After Last Season, first showed up on But the trailer has a rating from the MPAA, has a page at Apple, and supposedly a theatrical release on June 5th.  The blog Knox Road even tracked down the film’s writer/director, who not only claims it’s a serious film, but that it cost $5 MILLION DOLLARS and will have a “regular-wide release.”  Here’s the equally strange/vague:

The end of another season has brought more than the usual change in temperature to the residents of a city. As they go through some tragic events, the residents, and especially a group of medical students, must reevaluate their lives and face new questions.

What the hell is going on?  A CHUD reader recently discovered this blog entry from one of the film’s “stars”:

I am getting ready for my top secret project, which I am just about ready to let you all know about…! We are “working” on it this Thursday with some wonderful people. Let me put it this way…the surprise will be unleashed April 1st, 2009. That’s not too much longer to wait, right? Right.

Hmm, sounds like an elaborate hoax of some kind. Nonetheless, I’m intrigued.  As you can clearly see by my raised eyebrow and smoking jacket.

Having already signed on for a full-length documentary, Joaquin Phoenix can’t just come out and say his rap career is a hoax, even though it clearly is.

After video hit the Internet last month capturing part of Phoenix’s debut rap performance at a Las Vegas club, speculation swirled that he was perpetrating an elaborate practical joke.
“I don’t know where that comes from,” Phoenix said. “If it comes from people that I’ve had a falling out with, that are (ticked) off at me?”
“There’s not a hoax,” Phoenix said. “Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that’s possible, but that’s certainly not my intention.”
Phoenix’s friend and brother-in-law, Casey Affleck, was on hand with a camera crew as he did interviews for “Two Lovers.” Affleck said his friend is completely serious.
“It sucks that, yeah, the footage is out there as like this incredibly bad sound, and you literally can’t hear what’s happening,” said Phoenix, who still has his bushy beard. “It was much better in the club, and I don’t know who said that people were booing … because that was not happening.
“Unless, of course, it’s a pretty big place, and maybe it was happening,” Phoenix added, laughing. “But it was not my experience. My experience afterward was I had a lot of dudes come up and say, `We really respect you for doing it, putting yourself out there, and going with it.’ Because I think true hip-hop heads know that it’s hard, it’s going to be a hard transition, and people are going to be lining up just to make fun of me.” [Yahoo]

So… anyone buying this, or should we go back to making Christian Bale remixes now?  Sorry Joaquin, but coming out with the tag still on your shirt might have been overselling it just a bit.