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Fantasia XXVII Cancels Nic Cage Award Ceremony
Small programming note for anyone minding the business goings-on with the 27th edition of Fantasia. The festival announced over the weekend that Nicolas Cage is rescinding his invite to this year’s festivities in response to the SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ).
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: ‘Fifty Percent-Sex’ Nicolas Cage Is Armed And Pissed In The Official Trailer
Nicolas Cage continues to be a corner stone of film fandom, and for reasons back on full display in the official trailer for psych-crime thriller, Sympathy For The Devil. The Renfield and Mandy star leads the Yuval Adler-directed pic alongside The Suicide Squad and “Hanna” series actor Joel Kinnaman, with a script by Luke Paradise.
ARCADIAN: Nicolas Cage Rides Shotgun In A First Look At The New Survival Thriller
Ben Brewer, the award-winning commercial and music video director and VFX artist (Everything Everywhere All At Once) who made his feature film debut with the SXSW competition title The Trust, starring Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood, now takes the mantle for his newest effort, Arcadian.
RENFIELD Trailer Invites Toxic Work Relationships, Exploding Priests, And Nicolas Cage As The Vampiric Dark Lord Himself
The LEGO Batman Movie director Chris McKay’s newest action horror comedy looks a lot like something I could get into with the official trailer for Renfield now making the rounds. Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage topline the fresh new inspired tale based on the work of Bram Stoker and opens on April 14 from Universal Pictures.
SAND AND STONES: Nic Cage Tapped To Star And Produce Dystopian Survival Thriller From ‘The Trust’ Co-Director
Ben Brewer, lead VFX artist for A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once, will reunite with actor Nicolas Cage for the survival-action thriller Sand And Stones. Cage is set to star from a script by Michael Nilon (Braven), who also reunites with the actor to produce the pic after working on numerous titles together, including The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, and crime thriller The Trust which Brewer co-directed with Alex Brewer.
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: Kinnaman Takes Cage For A Ride In New Psych-Thriller Now Filming
Cameras are now rolling in Las Vegas for Sympathy For The Devil, the new psychological thriller from The Operative helmer Yuval Adler. Casting buzz on Tuesday brought word of actors Joel Kinnaman (The Suicide Squad) and Nicolas Cage (Willy’s Wonderland) who will star in the pic from a script by Luke Paradise.
‘Massively Talented’ – Preview of THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT (Aprill 2022)
Nic Cage is back with THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT (2022). This newest trailer sees one of the true kings of method acting, hamming it up as a version of himself played for laughs as a blatant parody. Transcending the typical buddy cop formula, Director Tom Gormican has crafted a very self-aware comedy that looks to capitalise on the manic yet versatile nature of Cage coupled with the straight laced Pedro Pascal. The set up is bizarre as it is hilarious with the actor Nic Cage morphing into his action hero guises in order to rescue his besieged wife and daughter from a drug lord – who also happens to be a fan!
‘Boldly Insane’ PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND Releasing In Australia Next Month!
Following on from the excellent MANDY (2018) and COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (2019), Nic Cage appears in another avante-garde offering called ‘PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND’ (2021). Cage stars as a condemned man recruited by a wealthy stranger to locate and rescue his daughter imprisoned by some bizarre cult like group. Though a simplistic premise, the movie itself is anything but one note and even the two-minute trailer evokes two adjectives: boldly insane.Whether real or imagined, this trailer immediately reminded me of the bizarre ‘EL TOPO’ (1970) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Drawing from symbolism from both East and West, the characterisations in ‘PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND’ (2021) unashamedly wear its influences on its sleeve; adapting cowboys in westerns, sword fighters from samurai films and a clear post-apocalyptic setting – again boasting the premise that, anything goes.
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND Review: Trapped in The Subjectiveness Of Art
In a 2016 documentary about his life and creative process, there is a scene where filmmaker Sion Sono shows a barely completed painting, that he had been working on for months, to the crew filming him and asks dispassionately if they think it’s good art or not. The off-camera interviewer, clearly confused by the sudden and direct question sputters out that he doesn’t know. Sono sharply responds that it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad and that it only matters if it expresses emotion. He then chucks the large canvas across the room with as much care as one throws a soiled tissue into the trash. This peculiar moment reveals a lot about how Sono views his work and it’s all I could think about after I watched his latest directorial effort, the post-apocalyptic “East meets West” mashup, PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND.
Director Of The Ghostland: A Conversation With Visionary Filmmaker Sion Sono
The trailer for his latest film, PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND, doesn’t use the tag of “A Sion Sono Film” or even a simple “directed by” note to introduce the acclaimed filmmaker to American audiences. It instead goes for the attention-grabbing phrase “[from] the warped mind of Sion Sono.” Marketing and cheeky hyperbole aside, no one working in film today has as unique of a voice as the fifty-nine-year-old Japanese auteur.
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND: Cage Stands Atop The Anarchy In The Official Poster
The campaign continues to ramp up for director Sion Sono’s latest genre mash-up spectacular, Prisoners Of The Ghostland, and RLJE Films is unloading all the assets out this week led by an official, and rather badass poster which you can peep at in the gallery below.
‘SWINE FURY’ – Review of PIG (2021)
The absolute versatility of Nic Cage, cannot be understated and this is evident in his latest film ‘PIG’ directed by Michael Sarnoski. The brooding atmosphere comes courtesy of Cage’s protagonist, an unkept and dishevelled pig farmer who wrecks havoc on members of the underworld who had abducted his prized truffle pig – uncreatively named Pig. In what initially seems like a backwater John Wick, using any and all means to exact revenge and reclaim what is rightfully his. The muted tone of the film seems to add to the very dour and depressing atmosphere, perhaps laced with some cynical comedy as Cage’s protagonist is a fish-out-of-water in a modern city, seemingly as out of place as the premise of this dark film. Cage plays Robin ‘Rob’ Feld, a once renowned chef turned truffle forager who now appreciates the solitude more than days of fame. Since the passing of his wife, Rob now lives a quiet and reclusive existence with his prized truffle seeking pig, but the serenity of his world is shattered when he is assaulted and Pig is abducted. What transpires is a somewhat bizarre path of destruction, where the act of vengeance is conveys that palpable feeling of loss when violence is as unrestrained as the emotions. Though prima facie, the movie is a simple by the numbers revenge film; it is nuanced enough to slowly reveal the subtleties of the narrative, perhaps in the same way Cage’s character unravels in LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1995). With this being the directorial debut of Sarnorski, it may be easy to opine that Cage allowed himself to be a blank slate and enable Sanorski to capitalise on the very essence of who Cage was – at that very moment. He allows Cage to deconstruct Robin’s persona, going from calm and contemplative to inhumanly berserk. It’s as much an existential drama as it is a pure revenge film, and it is stylish enough to be beautiful to watch without being overly pretentious. From the melancholy score to the relaxed camera, the clear focus is on the path of the protagonist and how he impacts on others and not the other way round.The primary supporting cast of Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin are serviceable, but yet somehow forgettable when so much mystery and intrigue surrounds Robin and his somewhat tainted past. Part of the film’s brilliance, is that it does make itself impossible to review without revealing too much of the plot, with the very fragility of human emotions explored in every scene that Cage is in. This is yet another valid endorsement of Cage’s skill, he is by no means over-the-hill, especially when he (like Robin) is not one to shy away from risks and challenge himself in new and diverse roles. Here he is jaded and cynical, and hence grips onto the one remaining piece of family that he has left; more valuable than the foodie scene that he once dominated. He seems to even perplex each and every opponent he encounters, by a simple glare or a quiet comment that more often than not is darkly humorous.
THE RETIREMENT PLAN: Nicolas Cage Leads Ensemble Cast For New Action Thriller To Be Shot In The Cayman Islands
Make a note of Willy’s Wonderland and Mandy star Nicolas Cage with upcomers like The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent and Sono Sion’s Prisoners Of The Ghostland, both set to bear down on the masses at some point this year for festivals and commercial audiences. He’s got another on the way that’ll have him in setting foot in the bustling filmmaking environment over at the Cayman Islands for director Tim J. Brown’s (The Cradle, upcoming Buckley’s Chance) new action thriller, The Retirement Plan.
RLJE Films Nabs PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND
Ahead of its forthcoming Sundance world premiere, RLJE Films is officially announcing its acquistion of action thriller, Prisoners Of The Ghostland.
WILLY’S WONDERLAND: Get Caged In Horror With Cage In The Official Trailer
While Nicolas Cage educates the masses about foul language on Netflix, fans of the actor are guaranteed an even more swell time when his newest thriller, Willy’s Wonderland, opens in select theaters and on VOD from February 12 from Screen Media.
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