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  • Amazon scraps Joe Exotic collection starring Nicolas Cage

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Nicolas Cage has revealed that he’ll now not play Joe Exotic, the topic of the hit documentary collection “Tiger King”, in a brand new scripted present which isn’t shifting ahead at Amazon Studios.

    The venture would have marked the primary common tv position for the Oscar winner, who was additionally connected to function govt producer on the potential present.

    According to Cage, the collection didn’t come to fruition on the streamer as Amazon felt the curiosity within the story had began fading away.

    “We should clear the record. I read two excellent scripts, which I did think were excellent, but I think Amazon ultimately felt that it was material that had become past tense because it took so long for it to come together. They felt at one point that it was lightning in a bottle, but that point has since faded into the distance and it’s no longer relevant,” the 57-year-old actor informed Variety.

    Sources near the scenario say the venture, produced by Imagine and CBS Studios, possibly shopped to different retailers.

    Amazon declined to touch upon the standing of the Joe Exotic collection.

    Joseph Maldonado-Passage, higher generally known as Joe Exotic, was the topic of the favored “Tiger King”, documentary collection from Netflix.

    A former Oklahoma tiger-zoo proprietor, Joe Exotic is serving a 22-year jail sentence for his position in a murder-for-hire plot in opposition to animal rights activist Carole Baskin, who was making an attempt to close down his big-cat operation.

    Another collection on “Tiger King” story is underneath improvement on the streamer Peacock, with Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell connected to star.

    Cage is at the moment incomes reward for his efficiency as a truffle hunter who goes looking for his pig after she is kidnapped in first-time characteristic writer-director Michael Sanrosksi’s “Pig”, which opens on Friday, July 16, 2021, on the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.

  • Nicolas Cage to star in ‘Butcher’s Crossing’ film adaptation

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: American actor Nicolas Cage is about to play a buffalo hunter in a movie adaptation of John Williams’ novel ‘Butcher’s Crossing’.

    As per Variety, the upcoming film is being helmed by Gabe Polsky, who has directed documentaries like ‘Red Army’ and ‘Red Penguins’. Shooting for the movie will start within the US in October.

    The film can be a reunion of types, as Polsky was a producer on Cage’s 2009 film ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’.

    The movie is about within the 1870s and finds Cage enjoying Kansas buffalo hunter Miller, who takes on a younger Harvard dropout searching for his future out West.

    The film is predicated on the 1960 transcendentalist novel by Williams, which explores man’s relationship with the pure world and particulars a largely untold however important chapter in American historical past.

    Polsky is adapting the novel alongside Liam Satre-Meloy. ‘1917’ director Sam Mendes was believed to have been excited by adapting the e book round 10 years in the past.

    Altitude is dealing with worldwide gross sales and can introduce the undertaking to consumers on the Cannes Virtual Market, 21-25 June. Altitude has additionally secured the movie for the UK and Irish distribution.

    The movie will likely be produced by Polsky, Molly Conners of Phiphen Pictures alongside Will Clarke and Andy Mayson for Altitude Film Entertainment and Cage’s Saturn Films.

    David Gallego will DoP and different key collaborators on the manufacturing will embody wildlife conservation charity Defenders of Wildlife and American adventurer and author Steve Rinella.

    “This is an urgent story with timeless themes — a gut-wrenching journey exploring the limits of human nature. Nick Cage is one of the most dynamic and interesting performers and to have him take on this brilliant role will be exciting,” mentioned Polsky in regards to the upcoming movie.

    Cage, an Oscar winner who within the Nineties and early 2000s was one of many largest Hollywood stars, has spent the final decade making an assortment of flicks starting from grade-Z motion movies to arty dramas to hallucinatory style outings.

    The actor and his wide-ranging profession are getting the big-screen remedy through a singular drama from Lionsgate titled ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ through which Cage performs himself –and as model of himself. The film is due later this yr.

    Cage additionally stars in ‘Pig’, through which he performs a wronged truffle hunter looking for his kidnapped pig. The film is due for a July 16 launch. 

  • Nicholas Cage ties the knot for fifth time, marries girlfriend Riko Shibata

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Nicolas Cage and girlfriend Riko Shibata have tied the knot.

    The duo obtained married in Las Vegas on February 16 in a small ceremony, a date chosen to honour the birthday of Cage’s late father.

    “It’s true, and we are very happy,” the 57-year-old actor stated in a quick assertion, obtained by Page Six journal.

    In the images from wedding ceremony ceremony, Shibata, 26, was seen in a home made bridal kimono, whereas Cage was carrying tuxedo.

    This is Cage’s fifth marriage following his public break up from Erika Kookie after a four-day marriage in March 2019, which additionally passed off in Las Vegas.

    The actor, identified for films reminiscent of “Leaving Las Vegas”, “Con Air”, “Adaptation” and “National Treasure” collection, was granted a divorce two months later.

    Cage’s earlier high-profile relationships embrace marriages to Patricia Arquette (1995 to 2001) and Lisa Marie Presley (2002 to 2004).

    According to Cage’s consultant, the couple began courting after they met in Shiga, Japan, over a yr in the past.

    The wedding ceremony ceremony was adopted by a small reception attended by Cage’s ex-wife Alice Kim (2004 to 2016) and their 15-year-old son Kal-El.

    Cage additionally shares son Weston, 30, with actor Christina Fulton.

  • Hollywood Rewind | Face-Off: Mostly trendy, generally foolish, all-time beloved actioner

    Admittedly, there are lots of foolish issues about Face-Off than they aren’t. But the positives of this actioner are so good that it outweighs the final lack of logic within the plot. First off, the actors are unimaginable. Nicolas Cage and John Travolta are two Hollywood stars who I’ve by no means had any explicit fondness for however they do their job nicely right here, particularly Cage, who revels within the eccentricity of his ‘bad apple’ character Castor Troy (what a reputation by the way in which!) Travolta can also be credible because the self-righteous cop who’s keen to go the additional mile with the intention to defend the system from Castor’s umpteen nefarious plans. So far, so predictable. The factor that makes this actioner distinctive is the ingenious (contemplating the time it was conceived in; the early 90s) twist of face-swapping, due to this fact the title.
    John Travolta’s cop Sean Archer thinks the one solution to catch the villain is to actually grow to be him. And as Nic Cage’s Castor lies comatose, Sean will get a complete new bundle. So even when Sean does get the brand new face, there’s the peak, physique language-issue however hey, you can’t be nitpicking this deep when you’re watching an motion film. In its protection, the mind-boggling motion choreography and the leads’ performances shortly make you neglect that what they’re doing shouldn’t be the actual deal. In one chase scene, we see a automotive, a helicopter and an airplane all collectively. Director John Woo needed a big-budget Hong-Kong-style motion flick and that’s what he made precisely.
    The sincerity with which John Woo and crew made Face-Off rolls off the display even within the silliest of scenes. Face-Off has this conviction and elegance about it that many movies, particularly motion movies, don’t actually have as of late. And that is most likely why it even stays near its lead star Nicolas Cage’s coronary heart. “I’m very proud of [‘Face/Off’] and I think it is one of the best movies I’ve ever made because of the challenge and if we had not hit that bullseye, we all would have probably stopped working because it was a big movie and there was a lot of money on the line. Fortunately, the three of us and everyone else in the movie managed to work together in a way that the alchemy was there so it was fun and exciting,” the actor had shared in an earlier interview.
    Hollywood Rewind: Pulp Fiction | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | The Age of Innocence | Mean Girls | Die Hard | Never Been Kissed | Citizen Kane | Kill Bill Volume I | Terminator 2 Judgment Day | Titanic | Heat | Home Alone | Jerry Maguire | Brief Encounter | The Truman Show | The Deer Hunter | The Shining | Clueless | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | Blue Velvet | Taxi Driver | The Lord of the Rings I | Zero Dark Thirty | The Godfather | Say Anything | Warm Bodies | Bright Star | Malcolm X | Stardust | Red Eye | Notting Hill | Fargo | The Virgin Suicides | The Breakfast Club | Enchanted | Walk the Line | Blood Diamond | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Mortal Kombat | Bridges of Madison County | Edward Scissorhands | Breakfast at Tiffany’s | She’s Gotta Have It | Ever After | The Devil Wears Prada | The Matrix | Creed | Mulan | Ratatouille | Shutter Island | Her | Dead Poets Society | Sleepless in Seattle | Waitress | Pride and Prejudice | The Dark Knight | Before Sunset | School of Rock | About a Boy | A Few Good Men | 50/50 | Begin Again | Brooklyn | Drive | Chocolat | Batman Begins | 10 Things I Hate About You | The Departed | Freedom Writers | Pretty Woman | Dan in Real Life | Jurassic Park | Tangled | Meet Joe Black | Monster’s Ball | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | You’ve Got Mail | Half Nelson | Fight Club | Doubt | American Psycho | Julie and Julia | Forrest Gump | The Silence of the Lambs | Finding Neverland | Roman Holiday| American History X | Tropic Thunder | Before Sunrise | Scent of a Woman | Finding Forrester | Sixteen Candles
    Here’s an attention-grabbing trivia concerning the movie. The makers needed to forged Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone as an alternative of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Because they had been the largest motion stars on the time and seeing them battle one another would have been a deal with for the followers and a particular crowd-puller. However, it goes with out saying that Cage and Travolta had been higher decisions. And the field workplace figures of the movie is a testomony to this. Face-Off made a whopping 245.7 million {dollars} towards its extra modest funds of 80 million {dollars}.
    Face-Off is streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar.