I’m Still Here, Casey Affleck’s documentary about Joaquin Phoenix’s mumble rappin’, cape buyin’ public breakdown, which may or may not have been a put on for the movie (it clearly was), is currently playing the Venice Film Festival.  And now, according to reports, the festival has been crashed by a Joaquin Phoenix impersonator.  A hoax about a hoax from a guy pretending to be a guy pretending to have a breakdown?  That’s so meta it makes my scarf chafe.  (*BRAAAAAHM*)

As Casey Affleck, producer/director on the offbeat documentary “I’m Still Here” builds buzz in Toronto for his directorial debut, his PR team has raised the alarm on an apparent charlatan who arrives by limousine at festival venues, and is accompanied by “a massive entourage of security and scantily clad female groupies.”

The blogosphere hasn’t yet lit up with confirming sightings of the faux Joaquin Pheonix, but Affleck is concerned enough about his fans being “tricked and disillusioned by the fraud” that he’s set to address the media Friday night outside the Varsity Theatre, just before “I’m Still Here” debuts in Toronto. [HollywoodReporter]

Gosh, it’s strange that his PR people have been the only ones to report this so far.  It’s almost as if they’re… inventing a publicity stunt… to promote their movie about… publicity stunts.  Hey, guys, I’ll go see your poo-prank movie, but not if you’re going to act all smug about it.  No one likes a smug poo pranker.  My mother taught me that.

UPDATE: According to a tipster, the impostor in question is this guy:

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More Jackie Chan end credit goodness here

Jackie Chan is searching for his own successor on the Chinese reality show, Jackie Chan's Disciples.  

Rather than a stuntman, perhaps he should be searching for an English tutor.  Guy's been making English films for like 20 years now and his English is still no better than my Chinese delivery boy.  Seriously dude, what the fuck is a "gratuiry"? 

But English skills aside, the man's a true hero.  Courageously risking life and limb just to bring us cheap entertainment.  He's a role model to 10-year-old girls all over China, bravely making sneakers while standing waist deep in poison.  The poison makes them shiny!

[via Filmstalker] 

New Zealand's Zoe Bell, star of "Death Proof" and stunt double for Lucy Lawless and Uma Thurman, will soon be starring in her own movie, according to RopeofSilicon.

Bell will play a U.S. soldier adrift after returning home from a tour of duty in Iraq who decides to help a young girl in trouble. The project is based on an original idea from [Marco] Weber, who also will produce, and screenwriter Sarah Thorpe (Twisted).

In Jackie Chan-like flair she told The Hollywood Reporter, "…one thing is certain: I will be doing all my own stunts on the film."

Big deal.  I do all my own stunts.  Mostly just not wiping after dumps and smoking cigarettes while I masturbate. 

WHO KNOWS IF I WILL LIVE TO SEE TOMORROW!