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27-01-Marissa translated this article about IAAL, a very big thanks for that :)

From Denmark with love

by journalist Hans Jørgen Møller

Now it finally happens. 4 years after Thomas Vinterberg became famous world wide with his dogmemovie

"Festen" his next movie "It is all about love" with Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes in the main roles is coming. Besides them Sean Penn and Douglas Henshall are in the movie as well !

The movie will show if Thomas Vinterberg is the big moviemaker, like many of the international awards he recieved for "Festen", pointed him out as.

In these days Thomas Vinterberg and Valdis Oskarsdottir are editing the movie. A movie about a couple fighting for love. John (Joaquin Phoenix) and the world famous figure skater Elena (Claire Danes) live in a cosmopolitian mariage in each end of the world ! John in Poland and Elena in New York ! After Elena has become famous they have been pushed apart and are close to a divorce.

Elena's life and career is being controled by her manager and two assistents, who won't leave her out of sight for a minute. So when John arrives to New York to sign the divorce papers, she sees it as a chance to ask John for help to get away from them ! And John sees it as a chance to help the only woman he never stopped loving !

If everything goes as Thomas Vinterbergs has planned to, he and his film company Nimbus Film, hopes that "It is all about love" will enter the Cannes Festival in May, and that is why the movie has not any precise premiere date yet ! But in the end of May or beginning of June should be realistisc !

25-01-I have put a new link on the linkpage to a great Joaquin site called JoaquinsFan

(On the bottom of News Archive 8 you can read an article with this in it: The unsaid message: Do it quickly. Rumors are flying that, among its other cost reductions, Disney wants to cut back its current two-new-animated-films-per-year production schedule. If so, the problems would make "Bears" a candidate for cancellation, putting a few more Central Florida animators out on the street.)

Nevertheless, a Disney insider debunked this rumour in December 2001, indicating that there was "nothing true about the cancellation rumours, on the contrary." Production is reportedly going "rather well", which is good news!

Altman charges next project with 'Voltage' By Zorianna Kit
LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Riding a wave of success with the very English "Gosford Park," filmmaker Robert Altman is looking homeward for his next project, "Voltage," a comedy about corporate America based on Robert Grossbach's novel "A Shortage of Engineers." The project, in the process of being financed, begins shooting in May.

For "Gosford," Altman has been named director of the year by the American Film Institute (news - web sites), has won kudos from the National Society of Film Critics (news - web sites) and the New York Film Critics Circle (news - web sites) and has been nominated for a Golden Globe.

Alan Rudolph has adapted the screenplay for the new project, which should see Altman directing another ensemble cast, which to date includes commitments from Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Liv Tyler, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Tony Shalhoub, Elliott Gould, Harry Belafonte and "Gosford" star Bob Balaban.

Altman describes the project as "a comedy of manners with an American twist." Set in 1991 at an engineering firm in Long Island, N.Y., with a defense department subcontractor, "Voltage" focuses on a group of workers and their bosses and examines their outside lives and loves. Phoenix will play Zack, an engineering school grad who finds himself among such co-workers as the Eurasian Lilah, with whom he falls in love; Warren, who has never had a date in his life; engineer-for-hire Jim; Edouard, a Frenchman who wears his clothes backward as a sign of defiance; and the corner-cutting Wonderboy. The middle management includes Chinese dyspeptic Hsu, sick-leave king Bill, and Marv, who is only in business for himself.

Altman optioned the book out of his own pocket and is producing the film in addition to his helming duties. Rudolph also will produce. The budget for the film is expected to be in the $20 million range. There is no distributor on board as of yet.

FROM another article The project so far has a ensemble cast of Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, Bob Balaban, Harry Belafonte, William H. Macy, Tony Shalhoub, Elliott Gould and Liv Tyler. Filming will begin in May in New York, with Altman working from an adaptation by Alan Rudolph. ``Voltage'' doesn't yet have a distributor, but it is unclear whether Altman will seek out such a deal before he begins production on the film.

AFebruary 2002 Magazine GLAMOUR. An articleby Jessia Baumgardner. "What's Overrated and What's Underrated About Sex", Joaquin is in that article A "UNDERRATED SEX SYMBOL: Joaquin Phoenix makes even a harelip scar look fantastic (If you have any doubts, rent Quills, in which he plays tormented priest Abbe du Coulmier, a holy man overcome with lust for Kate Winslet's creamy white bosom.)"

"I met Roy(her fiance) through friends.We've known eachother for 6 years and we've been together for 3 years.I've had a massive crush on him for about a year before we got together.Joaquin is going to get mad at me for saying that.But I used to think about Roy alot,and dream about him.I just thought he was so special and I could really relate to him."

I recorded my VO for the A&E Biography of River Phoenix yesterday...it was really tough. I had to stop a couple of times, because I felt like I was going to cry. I haven't thought about him, really, for years. I didn't know River when he was a messed up. I only really knew him when we were kids, working on Stand By Me. I don't know what drove him to be a drug addict, because it's different for everyone...but I suspect that a big part of it was a desire to numb the pain that often comes with being a professional actor and celebrity. River hated celebrity, and had a very hard time with it...that I do know. There are times when I don't like celebrity, either, but I am lucky enough to have survived my teens and early twenties, and now that I'm almost 30 (!) I can put stuff into perspective.
I often wonder what would have become of River, if he'd lived. I think he'd be giving actors like Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt a run for their money, man.
The producer told me that it should run sometime in March. I think it's going to get noticed.

AFrom an article from the Courier Times Dizzying start for shop owner HERE you can read the whole article

M. Night Shyamalan, writer and director of films including "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable," wanted to use her shop in a scene for his new movie "Signs." It stars Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix.

"I bought the business because I liked it; the movie was just a bonus," she said. "It was good advertisement for us, because we were in the paper every day.

"It was unbelievable how many people took pictures of our place. It got to the point where we would look up and it was flash after flash," Longosky said. "Before and after the movie was shot, people would just pull up, get out of their car, take a picture of them standing in front of our shop and drive away. If I charged for pictures, I'd probably have the store paid off by now."

It was fun meeting the movie stars and seeing the process of shooting a film, she said. And although Mel wasn't very talkative, his co-star liked to gab.

"The crew that shot here was great. Mel wasn't very personable, but that was OK. [Phoenix] really was personable. He couldn't thank us enough," she said.

Since Phoenix is a vegetarian, the Longoskys checked for meat content in everything they served just to be sure that the actor could enjoy their pizza.

AThis is kinda funny lol The site is called Shirtless Teen Idols lol Weird things you find on the net

02-01-I got these beautiful pictures from Alison, thank you very much for that, click on them to see them bigger

23-12-I'm back from a two days vacantion Disneyland :) and it snowed here woohoo lol. I don't have any Joaq news though :(

19-12-Entertainment Tonight had a first look at Signs. HERE an Article about it, with also a picture of Mel and Joaquin on that page.

On the Official Site for Signs you can see a Teaser Trailer already. And the code for the second card on that site is 2H1136, the first one was 1T4749 You can see the trailer also on Yahoo HERE and the same pictures as the article. On the unofficial UK Signs Site you can see stills of the trailer. Also the Signs movie poster on there. Article from USA TODAY about Signs.

I just found this on the net, an article about the Movie Bears. Here two parts out of it, the whole article can you read HERE on the Bearspage at the bottom of the page. They call the boy (where Joaquin is doing the voice for) in the movie Phoenix, would be nice if he really called Phoenix in the movie if the movie isn't gonna be cancelled.

ASet in the Pacific Northwest before the white man arrived in the New World, Bears tells the somewhat mystical tale (at least by Disney standards) of Phoenix, a young Native American. This 15-year-old is angered when his father -- the tribe's kindly and wise chief -- is accidentally killed by a mother bear trying to protect her cubs.

Immediately wanting revenge, Phoenix urges his older brother -- the tribe's new chief -- to form a hunting party to kill the bear quickly. When his brother refuses, the rebellious teen rushes into the wilderness to act on his own. Wanting to teach this hot-headed young man a lesson, the spirits of the forest turn Phoenix into the very thing he wants to kill: a bear. To survive, Phoenix must befriend another bear. This wise old grizzly (not-so-originally named Griz) then tries to teach the adolescent the ways of the forest.

Naturally the angry teen comes around, learning valuable lessons about the cycle of life that come in handy when the bewitched young man learns that his brother finally has formed a hunting party. Now determined to avenge their father's death, the new chief has ordered that all bears be killed. In order to keep himself and his new friend safe, Phoenix must tap all that he remembers from his days as a human as well as what he has learned as a bear.

AThe movie tries to marry Native American folklore to elements borrowed from Disney's two biggest animated hits, "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King." But at a test screening last month, studio execs found the first act too serious, the second act too comic and the third act just confusing. The production team was sent back to Orlando with orders to simplify their troubled storyline.

The unsaid message: Do it quickly. Rumors are flying that, among its other cost reductions, Disney wants to cut back its current two-new-animated-films-per-year production schedule. If so, the problems would make "Bears" a candidate for cancellation, putting a few more Central Florida animators out on the street.