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Nicolas Cage & Weston VooDoo Child
There aren't many bigger comic book geeks in Hollywood than Nicolas Cage. After all, the guy has a tattoo of Ghost Rider on his arm. But when executives at Virgin Comics approached the actor about starting his own line of books, Cage shrugged. "I said I didn't have any ideas, but I told them my son might," Cage says. So Cage and his 16-year-old son, Weston, brainstormed an idea that would become Voodoo Child, a six-issue illustrated series that hits shelves July 11 and marks one of the first launched by an A-list actor.
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Nicolas Cage Conman Going to Jail
Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" A conman who tricked actor Nicolas Cage out of $300,000 by posing as a classic car salesman has been jailed for five years.

Peter Brotman, 47, sold cars including a 1964 Rolls-Royce, a 1988 Aston Martin and a 1954 Jaguar on consignment, but kept the money he received to pay off other debts and fund his lavish lifestyle. The star became a victim of Brotman in April 2004, when he failed to hand over the full proceeds from the sale of three Ferraris and a Cobra.

Brotman was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to 14 counts of mail, wire and bank fraud charges. He was also ordered to pay $1.8 million in compensation to his numerous targets. Assistant U.S. Attorney Floyd J. Miller says, "The guy was extremely knowledgeable in the classic car industry. "It's a very insular community of mostly wealthy people. They have these auctions at Pebble Beach, Monte Carlo, (and) other places where the rich and famous meet."
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Newsweek Interview
Feb. 19, 2007 issue - In "Ghost Rider," Nicolas Cage plays a motorcycle stuntman who gives his soul to the Devil. But first, he lent his ears to Nicki Gostin. "Ghost Rider" is based on a comic book. Are you a comics fan? I grew up reading them. It's one of the ways I learned how to read.

Do you still have your collection? No. But I kept all the "Ghost Rider" comics.

Are you just saying that because you're in the movie? It's the truth. I'm going to be completely truthful with you.

Why did you name your son Kal-El from "Superman"? The name stood for something I thought was good. It was a unique name. My wife wanted a unique name.

You have a reputation for being kooky. Define the word, please.

Let's see? eating the cockroach in "Vampire's Kiss," Lisa Marie Presley, Patricia Arquette. How was I kooky with Patricia?

You proposed to her the day you met her. OK. I would say I'm more of a romantic. I wouldn't describe myself as kooky. I'd like you to use the word "romantic"? please!

You also had your teeth removed for "Birdy." I had teeth removed that coincided with the movie I was making. I don't want you to think I'm completely?I mean, these are stories that get built up over time.

So it was a coinkidink? You can use that word, yes. If you can find a way to spell it.

Your cousin Sofia Coppola cast your other cousin Jason Schwartzman in her last movie. How come she didn't call you? She's the director, that's her business.

You haven't asked her? No. And if you look at her movies, I don't think there would be any role I'm right for.

You could pass for Marie Antoinette? with a little powder and a wig. Actually, that would be fascinating. It would be a stretch, but I'm up for any challenge.



Cage wants to make racing film
By Charles Bradley Thursday, February 22nd 2007
American movie star Nicolas Cage, the grand marshal for last weekend's Daytona 500, has told autosport.com that he would "leap at the chance" to make a film about motorsport. Cage, star of blockbusters such as 'Gone in 60 Seconds', 'The Rock' or 'Ghost Rider', gave the "Gentleman, start your engines" command in his own inimitable fashion before the 49th running of the stock car classic on Sunday.

When asked if he would like to emulate Steve McQueen, who committed the Le Mans 24 Hours to celluloid in 1971, Cage told autosport.com: "I would love to. I would leap at the opportunity if someone came to me with a script about racecars and this great sport, I would participate straight away. Whether it was Le Mans, Daytona, Formula One ­ all of it.

"I've been out on the track at Willis Springs, nothing like this incredible magnitude of course, but I've had moments out there where I've experienced what it's like to try and stay alive and not think about anything but going fast and not hitting the wall. "It's oddly relaxing! So I'd like to try and do that in a movie somehow." Cage's latest film, 'Ghost Rider', is on general release in the USA.

In it, he plays a circus motorcycle stuntman who has been cursed by Satan. From autosport.com



Nicolas Cage To Serve As Daytona 500 Grand Marshall
01/26/07
Buddy Shacklette - All Headline News Motor Sports Reporter Daytona Beach, FL (AHN) - Actor Nicolas Cage has carried many roles over his illustrious career but he'll take on a much different one February 18th as the Grand Marshall for the Daytona 500.

Cage is starring in the upcoming Columbia Pictures thriller "Ghost Rider," which opens February 16th, but two days later he'll join past famous Grand Marshalls in giving the call to "Start Your Engines," and waiving the green flag on the pole stand. "The Daytona 500 is America's premier motorsports event and consistently attracts some of the biggest high-profile personalities," said Speedway President Robin Braig. "We're excited to have Nicolas take part in Daytona 500 pre-race festivities to help start what will be an exciting 2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series season."

Past Daytona 500 Grand Marshals include James Caan (2006), Matthew McConaughey (2005), President George W. Bush, Ben Affleck (2004) and actor John Travolta (2003). Cage has starred in such hits as "National Treasure", "Gone in Sixty Seconds", "Face/Off", "Con Air", "The Rock", "Raising Arizona", and "Leaving Las Vegas", where he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Nicolas Cage To Play LiberaceNicolas Cage will play flamboyant Las Vegas, Nevada, showman Liberace in a new biopic about the legendary piano man's life. The actor is producing the project, as well as starring in the film, and will begin meeting with directors in the coming weeks. Liberace, real name Wladziu Valentino Liberace, rose to fame in the 1950s when his musical TV show competed with, and often beat, I Love Lucy in the ratings. For much of the 1960s and 1970s, he was Las Vegas' highest-paid performer.

Liberace always flatly denied he was gay and the film is expected to focus on his double-life, according to celebrity website TMZ.com. In the early 1980s, Liberace's live-in lover Scott Thornson sued him for $113 million in "palimony" after they parted ways. Sources say the suit, which was ultimately dismissed, will be used as the starting point to introduce audiences to the alleged secret that haunted him for his entire adult life. The film could start production as early as October.
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Rob Zombie makes trailer for non-existent movie
From Therockradio.com
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Rob Zombie has completed filming a fake trailer for a non-existent movie called Werewolf Women of the SS, according to Blabbermouth.net. Zombie was asked to write and direct the trailer for inclusion in the upcoming film Grindhouse, which is actually a double feature of two full-length films, one directed by Quentin Tarantino and the other by Robert Rodriguez. In keeping with the idea that the viewer is watching two grubby exploitation movies, a series of fake trailers for even sleazier releases will be seen between the two features, with Zombie's being one of them.

Zombie wrote at his MySpace page on Sunday (January 21st) that Werewolf Women... could "quite possibly be the greatest motion picture ever made!" The trailer stars Nicolas Cage and Zombie's wife, Sheri Moon Zombie. Rob Zombie told Fangoria that the fake movie "is the story of Hitler's plan to create a race of superhuman werewolf women to win the war -- based on actual documents found in Hitler's bunker."

Grindhouse comes out in April. Meanwhile, Zombie continues pre-production for his remake of Halloween, which is due to begin filming within the next few weeks and is scheduled for release on August 31st. He is also working on a live album and a White Zombie boxed set.



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Nicolas Cage to cut back on acting
Nicolas Cage has been a Hollywood mainstay for decades, having taken leading roles in some of the biggest films of the 1990s and 2000s, including The Rock, Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds, National Treasure, Lord of War, the Oliver Stone movie World Trade Center and the upcoming Ghost Rider. Now, reports have surfaced that Nicolas Cage intends to take a step back from acting in order to pursue other interests. At the third annual Bahamas International Film Festival, Nicolas Cage spoke to the press where he said he's going to scale back his acting roles in order to pursue interests, such as helping to develop independent cinema projects in the small Caribbean nation Cage now calls home. Nicolas Cage told the Associated Press that "I'm thinking about taking more time in between movies." Nicolas Cage, born Nicolas Kim Coppola, continued by saying "I feel I've made a lot of movies already and I want to start exploring other opportunities that I can apply myself to, whether it's writing or other interests that I may develop."

Nicolas Cage, nephew of acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola and cousin of director Sofia Coppola, recently moved to the Bahamas and was in attendance at the Bahamas International Film Festival, which took place at the Atlantis Theater in Paradise Island in Nassau, to accept the Chopard Award for career achievement. To present the Chopard Award, the Bahamas International Film Festival recruited Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage's co-star from the 1996 action thriller The Rock. Connery was quoted by the AP as expressing "Nic is a professional and brings to the table all the stuff that makes it a real joy." After buying a house on Paradise Island, as well as buying an undeveloped private island in the Exuma Cays earlier this year, Nicolas Cage has said he wants to give back to the country that has welcomed him. Of his new home nation's film festival, Nicolas Cage said "My hope for the festival is that it continues to grow and ... that will allow me to bring in the people I know in the industry and hopefully that will stimulate conversations between the older, seasoned talent with the young, hungry talent that's displayed here." The talent which Nicolas Cage talks about is being displayed at the Bahamas International Film Festival through the roughly 50 narratives, documentaries and short films from around the world which are being showcased at the four-day event.

Nicolas Cage has held an esteemed acting career since his debut opposite Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. With his many film roles, Nicolas Cage has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actor: his first nomination, for Leaving Las Vegas resulted in a win, while his work as both Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation saw Cage lose out to Adrien Brody for Brody's work in The Pianist. While Nicolas Cage has found most of his success in the action-adventure genre, with films such as National Treasure, The Rock, Con Air and World Trade Center, Cage has begun to branch out in the world of film. 2002 saw him direct James Franco in Sonny, though the film failed to capture an audience. Cage has been married three times: first, to Patricia Arquette, second, to Lisa Marie Presley, and third, to Alice Kim, a former sushi waitress, to whom Nicolas Cage is still married. As for his future acting roles, IMDb lists nine projects for Cage from now until 2008. While comic book adaptation Ghost Rider and sequel National Treasure II: Book of Secrets both promises big box office returns, Time to Kill, Next, Crazy Dog, Amarillo Slim, Electric Dog, The Dance and Time Share have yet to generate big press.
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National Treasure Sequel Green light Starring Nicolas Cage
1/3/07
Buena Vista Pictures has announced the name of the National Treasure sequal. "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" is scheduled to be released on December 21, 2007. The subtitle refers to the 18 pages of a book from John Wilkes Booth's library, and the movie will possibly involve Abraham Lincoln. The movie is being directed by Jerry Weintraub and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer once again. The Book of Secrets will star Nicholas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight an Harvey Keitel
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Nicholas Cage Talks to us about National Treasure 2
Sheila our LA superstar writer had a chance to sit down with Nicholas Cage and talk to him about Ghost Rider, and while we were at it we talked a bit about his upcoming film National Treasure 2 : The Book of Secrets. He told us that his next film he would be working on would likely be National Treasure 2. Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have begun laying out a new map for "National Treasure 2." The studio has hired Gregory Poirier to write the movie, which will again be directed by Jon Turteltaub. Nicholas Cage will unravel what is on the missing pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary. In the first movie Nicolas Cage stars as the brilliant Benjamin Franklin Gates, third generation treasure hunter. All his life, Gates has been searching for a treasure no one believed existed: amassed through the ages, moved across continents, to become the greatest treasure the world has ever known. Hidden by the American Founding Fathers, they left clues to the treasure’s location before everyone’s eyes. From the nations birthplace, to the nations capitol, to clues buried within the symbols on the dollar bill.

Question: So that is actually going to happen?
Cage: Yeah. It's being written as we speak, but the hope is that it's going to be happening.

Question: It's about Abraham Lincoln?
Cage: Yeah, Abraham Lincoln and confederate gold and the assassination. It's interesting stuff. What I like about the 'National Treasure' potential series is that it deals with history and it's also entertaining. That's also a good thing. There are worse things to do than to stimulate young people's minds about history as you're entertaining them.

Question: Are you going to do it sort of 'Indiana Jones' style and do a prequel because at the end of 'National Treasure' you're a billionaire, aren't you?
Cage: [Laughs] Well, actually, not a billionaire. I think that he gave most of the treasure to the different museums of the world. He got one percent or something.

Question: Okay, so you're a multi-millionaire.
Cage: I'm not sure what they're going to do about that.

Question: That character seems as though he would be into searching out other mysteries with the money.
Cage: Yeah, that's what I like about him. He's kind of like a historical detective and a treasure hunter.

Question: Everyone is still attached from the first film?
Cage: Yeah.

Question: Except for Sean Bean is what I heard.
Cage: I'm not sure how that's going to work just yet. Its a shame to me that Sean Bean is still in limbo on whether or not he will return for this film but I am excited regardless. The first film was actually quite a bit of fun.
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Nicolas Cage's Oliver Stone wait
U.S actor and Oscar award winner Nicolas Cage poses for a photograph next to a film poster during a press conference to promote the film 'World Trade Center' in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday 12 September 2006. Oscar award winner Oliver Stone's film shows the desperate rescue attempts of firefighters and policemen. The film will be launched in Thailand on 21 September 2006. 11 September 2006 marked the fifth anniversary of the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people when terrorists hijacked passenger jets and aimed them at New York's World Trade Center and targets in the Washington DC. EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT
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Nicolas Cage uses mythology to overcome his problems
Nicolas Cage uses mythology to overcome his problems. The 'Ghost Rider' actor believes the ethics and philosophy contained within myths are just as relevant today as they were when they were written, in some cases almost three thousand years ago. He said: "I like the Greek myths and I love mythology and you can use it. Right now I am very interested in Arthurian mythology and I think these things are there for a reason and you can use that to get through difficult walks of life."

Meanwhile, Cage has confessed he is thrilled about getting the opportunity to play 'Ghost Rider' in the new comic book movie of the same name. The self-confessed comic book obsessive stars as stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze, who in the Marvel universe sells his soul to Satan in order to save the life of his mentor and ends up becoming a vengeful vigilante with a flaming skull for a head. Cage admits he jumped at the chance at playing the anti-hero because he was such a fan of the series as a child. He said: "It's not standard superhero fare, it doesn't follow any of those traditional rules. As a boy I was really attracted to the monsters that were in the Marvel universal, the Hulk and Ghost Rider, because I couldn't understand how something so terrifying could also be good, and it appealed to whatever complexities I was feeling about life, that paradox to me is inherently interesting."
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Indian comics get star quality
1-5-07
Several Hollywood stars such as Nicolas Cage and Guy Ritchie are helping Oscar-nominated Indian director Shekhar Kapur produce a comic book series inspired by Indian mythology, a newspaper has reported. Kapur, who directed Elizabeth, said rock group Duran Duran were also interested in working with him on the comic books. Richard Branson's Virgin Comics - of which Kapur is a co-founder - will publish the comics that are aimed to appeal to Indian and international audiences, the Mumbai Mirror says. It says Cage has created the character of a sadhu or an Indian sage, while Ritchie is working on a story.
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Nicolas Cage wanted to become a sailor!
Acclaimed actor Nicolas Cage aimed to become a sailor when he was a kid. Cage was so fascinated by the life at sea, that he once also thought of giving up his acting ambitions to pursue an occupation on the water. The Moonstruck star still regrets not following his boating dreams through, and now hopes his son will develop a passion for the ocean. "As a kid, I knew I wanted to be at sea, on the ocean in some way. There was a time there where if I hadn`t succeeded as an actor, I was ready to join the merchant marines and try to have a life at sea or some other occupation on the water - fishing or something," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying. "The sailors are the kings of the ocean. I don`t sail. I have a motorboat. I hope my young son gets into sailing," he added.
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