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Werner Herzog's Bizarro Nic Cage Flick Railroaded on Theatrical Release

Although it played Toronto with some top critics championing it, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans has been scheduled for a split-second theatrical run on Nov. 20 followed by a DVD release on Feb. 23....  read more

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Nic Cage, Cameron Diaz in Talks to Join Seth Rogen in Green Hornet

For a movie once assumed dead, The Green Hornet has shaped up well in the past several months, if a little bizarrely. First we learned that super-freak indie auteur Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine) would helm the film, long set to star Seth Rogen. Now here comes word that Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz are in negotiations to play the movie’s villain and love interest, respectively....  read more

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Knowing

Toward the end of Knowing, the hyper new sci-fi parable...  read more

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Trailer Stash: S. Darko, Knowing, Funny People, more

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And now, a look at some notable trailers lighting up the blogs and message boards:...  read more

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50 Cent buys film company, nabs Nic Cage as first co-star

The best stories always seem to tell themselves. 50 Cent has purchased his very own film production company—called Cheetah Vision, no less—and he's wrangled Nicolas Cage to be his co-star in the operation’s first venture, a fact-based parable about a former fighter sent to state prison and the founder of a boxing program who he connects with there....  read more

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Nicolas Cage set to star in Kick-Ass new movie

Nicolas Cage loves comic books. After starring in Ghost Rider and naming his son Kal-el, the Hollywood Reporter cited on Friday that the Coppola nephew has signed on for an adaptation of Mark Millar's Kick-Ass. Cage is set to play a former cop intent on bringing down a druglord in the violent pic. Chloe Moretz plays the daughter he has trained to fight alongside him....  read more

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Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage to update Bad Lieutenant

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At this point, legendary German director Werner Herzog has become the Bill Brasky of the film world. Tales about Herzog are always tall, but never exaggerated: Werner Herzog once cooked and ate his own shoe after losing a bet. Werner Herzog once was shot during an interview, and continued on with the interview. Werner Herzog once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it. Werner Herzog once remade Abel Ferrara's ultra-violent, cult-film Bad Lieutenant, and cast none other than Nicolas Cage as the leading role....  read more

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