Hollywood Ink: Joaquin Phoenix Mockumentary Exists, Is For Sale

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· Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix are betting on the pop-cultural attention span this week, reportedly screening their mockumentary about Phoenix's pseudo-retirement/rapping career for a group of potential buyers. This thing would seem to have exhausted whatever cachet it had back when it was being made over a year ago, no? On the other hand, Harvey Weinstein was said to be among the viewers, and let's face it: Slap a viral porn site into the marketing campaign, and you can't really lose. [Deadline]

Mickey Rourke and Tony Scott bulk up (with Shia LaBeouf?), Tim Gunn is Smurfy, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.

· Mickey Rourke and his Domino director Tony Scott are apparently determined to reunite. Scott has Rourke on the hook for his previously announced thriller Potzdamer Platz, while Scott Frank is rewriting the undercover-cop/biker project Hell's Angels for Rourke, Scott and possibly Shia LaBeouf. Yowza! Mickey and Shia! Can we maybe get that one first? [Deadline]

· Tim Gunn has joined the cast of The Smurfs as an "executive assistant at a major cosmetic company." First of all: Tim Gunn as an executive assistant? Heresy! Also: Gratuitous Make it Smurf tie-in on Project Runway coming your way in 5... 4... 3... [Variety]

· Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont -- the writing duo responsible for the romcom abortions Made of Honor and Leap Year -- will rip off Groundhog Day for Universal's Repeat After Me, about a woman reliving her wedding day repeatedly and questioning whether or not she should get married at all. Of course she shouldn't. Run, sucker! But she will. [THR]

· There is a movie called The Dog Squad 3-D, and ContentFilm will try selling it at Cannes. That is all. [THR]