Douche of the Decade Joe Francis is threatening to sue Piranha 3D for showing "someone loosely based on Joe Francis" screaming bloody murder while piranhas tear his penis from his body with their rusty saw blade teeth.

Singer Justin Bieber, who is 16, will play himself in a 3D biopic about his life. The man who directed An Inconvenient Truth is in negotiations to direct it. I don't know what else to say. Good luck, earth. [Deadline]

Recently freed rapist/filmmaker Roman Polanski, enjoying a paperwork mistake that saved him from extradition to the US, was spotted out for the first time today at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland to watch his wife perform. [AP]

Avatar… biggest movie EVER. That 3D stuff sure was impressive! And now the franchise is moving into a new genre, with the fall 2010 release of Hustler's This Ain't Avatar XXX, a sexxxy adaptation of the James Cameron hit. [Slashfilm]

Two transcendental travelers wander the desert, encountering magic and mirages (frog people, alcoholic oases, organ thieves, etc.) along the way. Faithfully filmed on Super 8, writer/director Calvin Reeder's surreal short homages countercultural legacies of hobo-hippies' radical realities and strange trips.

The Tribeca Film Festival is underway and just like last year, we've put together a group of insiders—including directors, producers, critics and other industry peeps—to live tweet the goings-on.

It's been nearly a decade since California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in Terminator 3. Author Edward Jay Epstein looks back at Schwarzenegger's final movie contract, the product of state-of-the-art deal-making and still the gold standard for Hollywood lawyers.

Street scenes repeat themselves by variations in Peter Greenaway's early experiment with rhythm and editing. In a triptych of identical footage, flashes of strangers set in black and white surroundings gain distinction and lose their places when the music changes.

Dispatched to the Amazon by Hollywood to woo natives and steal their charming stories, James Cameron is torn between following his orders and protecting the rustic simplicity he loves, because it reminds him of a big-budget CGI blockbuster about aliens.

Two movies and sitcom are tentatively called 'Friends with Benefits.' Which gets the name?

VBS went on a field trip to Mexico and uncovered an entire mega-industry that the US west of Austin knew nothing about: Narco-Cinema, low-budget, straight-to-video films about drugs, dealers, and the mob. Kind of like if Scarface met Troma.

Visiting the Hollywood Scientology Celebrity Center, J.D. Shapiro just wanted to meet girls. Instead, he wound up writing Battlefield Earth. After winning the "Worst Picture of the Decade" Razzie, Shapiro is apologizing. He blames it all on his penis.

After a quarter century on the air, At the Movies has been canceled.

In a graphic depiction of one couple's lovemaking (that's graphic symbols, nothing nasty; get your mind out of the gutter!), suggestive images pair with metered dialogue to create a figuratively pornographic film poem that reveals the psychosexualization of everyday objects.

A young man's struggle with sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realizes he must either break out or break down.

According to director Joshua Newton's lawsuit against Variety for breach of contract—he's mad that Variety trashed his movie after selling him on a $400,000 Oscar campaign—the paper doesn't think its own reviews matter.

Bookies favor The Hurt Locker for a Best Picture win (gaining traction: an Up in the Air upset), but if BitTorrent downloads were votes, District 9 would squeak past Avatar for the win. Biggest losers: An Education, Blind Side. [TorrentFreak]

The Oscars are a lot of things, but seldom are they unpredictable, at least when it comes to the types of films that win big. Here, the phenomenon is explained brilliantly with a literal "trailer" for the Academy's requisite darlings.

Quentin Tarantino has resurrected many careers. His next personal project, according to conversations we overheard between the two men, involves Chris Tucker.

Reality is confused with the dreamworld as a woman chases herself through a black and white land of symbols and cycles. Avant-garde pioneer Maya Deren's first film, Meshes of the Afternoon, concerns the psyche's secrets in an enigma of images.