[While escaping a pack of masked orgy attendees, director Terry Gilliam stumbles into actress Lily Cole on the red carpet of the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus premiere in Rome yesterday. Image via Getty]

The accursed, Troyer-felling labors of Dr. Parnassus behind him, Terry Gilliam has wheedled his way into Dubai, where he hopes all those oil riches make for better door-to-door panhandling in advance of his next film.

Whether he's outmaneuvering the cosmic pox on his films or simply panhandling for his next directing opportunity, Terry Gilliam is a man Hollywood can always count on to deliver his own special brand of crazy when it counts. But whereas we've generally been leery to attribute much more than pity to him over the…

Believe it or not, the last person we'd expect to perpetuate the Terry Gilliam Curse recently landed in the emergency room: Verne Troyer, soon to be seen as Mike Myers' tiny bad-joke magnet in The Love Guru, was reportedly dispatched to a hospital outside Vancouver while shooting Gilliam's near-doomed Heath Ledger…

Take this with a grain of salt, but AICN is reporting that Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus director Terry Gilliam has cast Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law to film the remaining scenes that Heath Ledger was to have played. If word from Harry Knowles' camp ends up being true, it'll be quite a score for both the…

Terry Gilliam's pledge that the Parnassus show will indeed go on just got a shot of quasi-validity. Amid reports that production has been shut down, the movie's online marketing campaign began taking root this week. Not only did (an admittedly bare bones) official website go live, fanboy outpost Quick Stop managed…

His iconic star dead midway through a $30 million feature, director Terry Gilliam does the only sensible thing: work relentlessly to keep Ledger "alive on film" using computers, pictures and, if absolutely necessary, Johnny Depp. The movie is about magic so everything should work out fine. [People via Observer]

When we last checked in on the status of The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus, the Terry Gilliam joint that featured the final work that Heath Ledger committed to celluloid, the project looked to be in serious jeopardy. However, as we should have all learned by now, it's impossible to underestimate the power of…

Just as we surmised, the bad luck for director Terry Gilliam continues, as recent news from the Vancouver set of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus suggests production on the fantasy pic will be permanently shut down following Heath Ledger's sudden death. Tragedy aside, we are especially sad to report that this news…

Tragically cursed oddball filmmaker Terry Gilliam pounded the New York pavement yesterday, hustling those waiting in line for The Daily Show to promote his new movie, Tideland. On the brink of financial destruction as ever, Gilliam pleaded with the mob to go see his movie when it opens on Friday, or else it will get…

Comedy Central's Insider blog sent a reporter down to street level to document director Terry Gilliam's "crashing" (i.e., pre-publicized attempt at organizing a "flash mob") of The Daily Show's audience line yesterday afternoon, where Gilliam tried to generate some buzz for Tideland, his latest movie: