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Todd Phillips Clarifies: The Smoking Hangover 2 Monkey Story Was a Joke

Yesterday the internet was abuzz over a report that Todd Phillips got his Hangover 2 capuchin monkey addicted to cigarettes , but today animal lovers can breathe a sigh of relief. Phillips, via email, explains to Movieline that the whole story was intended as a joke. (What’s more: He assures us that Crystal the monkey didn’t actually do cocaine in the film, either. Phew!) Hit the jump for the director’s explanation in full.

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Todd Phillips Clarifies: The Smoking Hangover 2 Monkey Story Was a Joke

Project Nim Opens Sundance, Proves Life Stranger Than Fiction

It says something that out of four feature-length films opening the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the hottest ticket in town wasn’t the celebrity doc ( Sing Your Song ) or the buddy cop thriller starring two famous-for-an-indie-movie stars ( The Guard ). Instead, Thursday’s big premiere was Project Nim — or, as it was referred to around Park City, “the monkey movie” — a documentary by returning Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winner James Marsh, whose first and last Sundance debut ( Man on Wire ) went on to win an Oscar.

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Project Nim Opens Sundance, Proves Life Stranger Than Fiction