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Interesting story I read about him yesterday, with some info I didnāt know but had suspected
Around 2014, after Nicolas Cage had a string of box office flops with the likes of āThe Sorcererās Apprenticeā and āGhost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,ā the actor started becoming the face of straight-to-VOD action movies. Those roles piled up in the dozens as reports surfaced that Cage blew his $150 million fortune, owed the IRS $6.3 million in property taxes and was taking every acting role he could in order to get out of debt. The actor recently clarified this period of his life in an interview with GQ magazine.
āIāve got all these creditors and the IRS and Iām spending $20,000 a month trying to keep my mother out of a mental institution, and I canāt,ā Cage said about his debts. āIt was just all happening at once.ā
Cage said that he refused to get to the point where he would have to file for bankruptcy, even if people in his life were telling him he should. Thatās where the endless string of Cage-starring VOD movies came in handy, although the Oscar winner stressed that he never took on a role he didnāt believe in ā even if the role was helping him avoid bankruptcy.
āWhen I was doing four movies a year, back to back to back, I still had to find something in them to be able to give it my all,ā Cage said. āThey didnāt work, all of them. Some of them were terrific, like āMandy,ā but some of them didnāt work. But I never phoned it in. So if there was a misconception, it was that. That I was just doing it and not caring. I was caring.ā
According to GQ, Cage officially āfinished paying off all his debtsā a year and a half ago after signing on to star in āThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.ā That film, which stars Cage as a fictionalized version of himself, just debuted to strong reviews at SXSW Film Festival. Cage said he had to pivot to VOD films because āthe phone stopped ringingā with offers for studio movies.
āIt was like, āWhat do you mean weāre not doing āNational Treasure 3?ā Itās been 14 years. Why not?āā Cage said. āWell, āSorcererās Apprenticeā didnāt work, and āGhost Riderā didnāt really sell tickets. And āDrive Angry,ā that just came and went.ā
Cage said āNational Treasure 3ā³ remains far out of reach, but the actor is enjoying staying in his indie lane. āI enjoy making movies like āPigā and āLeaving Las Vegasā more than I enjoy making movies like āNational Treasure,'ā he said. Although Cage wouldnāt elaborate, he alluded to Disney leaving him in the dust during his career downturn as one reason a third āNational Treasureā movie is not in the cards.
āWhen I talk about fair-weather friends in Hollywood, Iām not talking about [āNational Treasureā producer] Jerry Bruckheimer,ā Cage said. āIām talking about Disney. Theyāre like an ocean liner. Once they go in a certain direction, youāve got to get a million tugboats to try to swivel it back around.ā
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Heās an actor.
^ this. Weāve got a subscription to a regional streaming service which has hoovered up most Nic Cage film from recent years, he must be big in Brazil. Weāve seen a lot of them and he makes even the worst piles of garbage watchable - I doubt the same could be said of Bruce Willis, Steven Seagal or anyone else stuck in B-movie purgatory. āPigā was genuinely great, and I am all in for the upcoming Cageaissance.
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Despite all my rage
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Vampireās Kiss is brilliant
and this is astonishingly weird
A budget of 10 million and it made 18k at the box office
03:50 onwards is a particular highlight
the film really falls apart after his character (spoiler) dies
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āā¦ bought a two-headed snake. The snake came to him in a dream, or, rather, he had been dreaming of two-headed eagles and then the very next day, a guy called to sell him a two-headed snake for $80,000. After immediately taking him up on the offer, Cage learned that to feed it, he had to put a spatula between the heads to prevent them from fighting over their food and this was all way too much to handle, so the snake was re-homed to the zoo. He also spent $276,000 on a T-Rex skull, only to find out that it was stolen and he had to return it to Mongolia.ā
Suffice to say, he likes an impulse buy.
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could be my favourite actor. Not sure heās ever been boring or average, has done some incredible performances, elevated some very meh films, full of meme-able moments, bags of personality
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I love that a film that made lost a ton of money and garnered a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes somehow spawned a sequel 14 years later - to similar critical and commercial successā¦
My pal owns every nic cage film on dvd and itās a ridiculous sight
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Thereās a good YouTube video on the recent spate of Bruce Willis films (where they use the phrase āgeezer teasersā, ie an aging action star on the box to lure you in, which I love) and oh boy. A lot of films with basically zero redeeming features.
Meanwhile Cage is making Pig and Willyās Wonderland and Colour out of Space etc etc
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Looks like heās doing a Bryan Ferry dance
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