In one of the strangest celebrity stories of 2008, Joaquin Phoenix abruptly announced he was quitting acting to pursue a career in music -- and not in a guitar-strumming, Johnny Cash way, but as a rapper, with his first album to be produced by Sean Combs.

Only adding to the strange nature of this story is the announcement that Phoenix's career makeover will be documented by his friend and fellow actor, Casey Affleck. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Affleck is helming a documentary that will begin shooting this Friday at Phoenix's first public performance at a Las Vegas club. Read more...

Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba are going to the dark and seedy side. According to The Hollywood Reporter, they're teaming up with Michael Winterbottom for "The Killer Inside Me," a thriller based on Jim Thompson's classic noir novel.

Affleck will play Lou Ford, a West Texas sheriff who seems to be an ordinary guy, if somewhat boring, dumb, and lazy. However, he's slowly revealed to be a disturbed man, paranoid and sociopathic, with a penchant for murder. He murders a prostitute and her wealthy lover, creates the perfect alibi, only to see it slowly unravel. The death count piles up, the normal mask begins to slip, and people begin looking twice at Ford. Read more...