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Daniel Day-Lewis has made a rare public appearance this week at the premiere of his wife’s new film.The actor, who retired after his last film, Phantom Thread, was in attendance at the premiere with his wife Rebecca Miller, for the unveiling of her new film, She Came To Me. The couple were also joined by their son, Ronan.The new film is a romantic comedy and stars Anne Hathaway, Peter Dinklage, and Marisa Tomei.It’s been four years since Day-Lewis has made a formal public appearance.Reflecting on his decision to retire in 2017, Day-Lewis said: “All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting…it was something I had to do.”Day-Lewis is the only actor to have won three Oscars for acting, taking home awards for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln.In other Day-Lewis news, the filmmakers behind The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent have revealed that the actor was once in line to play Nicolas Cage in the film.The movie sees Cage play a fictionalised version of himself alongside the likes of Pedro Pascal and Tiffany Haddish, who portray different characters to their actual selves.Writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten have opened up about early struggles getting the film made, with Cage initially hesitant to take on the role of playing himself.“There were times when I think I, more than Tom, was trying to talk myself into other ideas,” Etten said.

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent have revealed that Daniel Day-Lewis was once in line to play Nicolas Cage in the new film.The movie sees Cage play a fictionalised version of himself alongside the likes of Pedro Pascal and Tiffany Haddish, who portray different characters to their actual selves.Writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten have opened up about early struggles getting the film made, with Cage initially hesitant to take on the role of playing himself.“We were told that Nick has done these projects before and he’s not wild about Nick as Nick,” Etten recalled to The Hollywood Reporter. “And we weren’t two guys who had a huge body of work that you could point to and be like, ‘No, trust us.’“We knew that we needed to have a real offer to go along with the script.

Nicolas Cage almost didn’t play Nicolas Cage in his new movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

extraordinary off-screen persona that have transformed Cage into an unwitting walking, talking (and sometimes yelling) meme.The memeification of Cage has in and of itself spurred a Cage-ification of pop culture, and that’s the foundation for Lionsgate’s “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” which stars Cage as his greatest character yet — himself. Rather, a fictionalized, off-the-wall and sometimes CGI-produced young version of himself. The action-comedy spoof, from director-writer Tom Gormican and executive producer Kevin Etten (who previously collaborated on the short-lived Fox sitcom “Ghosted”), sees Cage — on the edge of bankruptcy — accept a $1 million offer to attend an über-wealthy super-fan’s (Pedro Pascal) birthday party at his agent’s behest (Neil Patrick Harris).

Vampire’s Kiss and The Wicker Man alongside lesser-known obscurities like 1991’s erotic spectacle Zandalee and 1993’s noir-ish flop Deadfall, the video expertly served up four minutes of Nicolas Cage screaming his gills off. Cage fans and skeptics alike ate it up.That cut inspired other highlight reels — Nicolas Cage laughing, Nicolas Cage being silent — but it also presaged a decade in which Cage was often treated more as meme than human.

enthusiastically agree with this assessment. The riotous comedy is something of a “Cage Your Enthusiasm.” Like Larry David on the long-running HBO series, Cage plays a fictionalized version of himself who can’t do anything right. Nic’s career has plateaued, he’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and his marriage has crumbled — he lives away from his wife (Sharon Horgan) and daughter (Lily Mo Sheen) in the Sunset Towers Hotel and downs whiskey like water. So when his agent (Neil Patrick Harris) gets a $1 million offer for Cage to fly to Mallorca and spend a weekend with a wealthy fan, Javier (Pedro Pascal), the actor has no choice but to hop on a plane to Spain.Soon after arriving, however, he learns that two FBI agents (Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz) are on the hunt for his Spanish host because they believe he’s kidnapped the daughter of a political candidate.Says Haddish to Cage: “I loved you in ‘Croods 2’!” There are so many delicious cracks at his erratic résumé: “Gone in 60 Seconds,” “Face/Off,” “The Rock,” “National Treasure,” they’re all in here. Pascal — whose sensitive, goofy performance is a surprise — gives an emotional speech about how he and his father were brought together by “Guarding Tess.” Hilarious.

Superstar actor Nicholas Cage is back on the big screen with new meta-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. And this time the cultural phenomenon is starring in the role he was born to play - himself.

Director Tom Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten found themselves suddenly out of work when their sitcom “Ghosted” ended up on Fox’s cancellation chopping block. Determined to work together again, the pair began brainstorming ideas for what they could possibly do next.

Nicolas Cage stepped out with his family and co-stars for the latest screening of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-coming actor Kristian Flores (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) has signed with Innovative Artists for representation, after attempts on the part of assorted major agencies to reel him in.

AUSTIN, Texas – Nicolas Cage's decision to take on the role of himself wasn't an easy one. Cage explained during Saturday's premiere of the film at the SXSW Film Festival that he originally wasn't interested in playing himself when the creators of "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" approached him.  In the film, Cage agrees to appear at a billionaire's birthday but ends up becoming a CIA informant and has to rescue his daughter from a drug lord.

After forty years in show business, what else is there left for Nicolas Cage to do? At his best — for thirty years, in fact — the actor nimbly toed the line between blockbuster action hero and fully committed dramatic performer. Often aware of his onscreen habits and lampooned for his onscreen vocal and physical excesses, Cage intermittently played those expectations for greater dramatic tension and pure comedy.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas Cage, a conceit we get used to in a matter of seconds, even as it turns into a gift that keeps on giving. There’s a reason we get used to it so quickly: Movies with a meta dimension have been with us for years — movies like “The Player,” where Robert Altman cast a galaxy of Hollywood stars as their real-life selves, or “Being John Malkovich,” where John Malkovich played John Malkovich, or “Adaptation,” where Cage played Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter of the film we happened to be watching.

Watching the new action comedy  The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent in which Nicolas Cage plays a fictionalized version of , well, Nicolas Cage, I kept thinking that if  director Tom Gormican didn’t get him to agree to do this film which depends on audience recognition of a genuine action star, he could have easily gone to Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis. They would have been fine fulfilling the amusing premise, but Cage, as he usually does, goes all out, even over the top at times, and gives this the kind of sharp edge only he can. It also helps, since this is basically a comedy, that Cage’s manic timing (as in Honeymoon In Vegas for one) really works in making the best lines in Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten’s script work, especially the inside industry jokes peppered throughout.

Nicolas Cage has been earning rave reviews for playing a skewed version of himself in the new film “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”.

The most Nicolas Cage movie ever to be made is arriving at SXSW soon in the form of “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.” In the film, Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas Cage, but a fictionalized version of the character who is so down on his luck that he has to go visit a criminal’s birthday party for a $1 million payday. Obviously, this is a film that could only be made if Cage was willing to star in it.

What new is there to say about Nicolas Cage at this point in his career? As an actor, he’s a chaotic force, indulgent in a way that deserves an adjective all its own: Cage-ian. However, he’s also a prolific workhorse, dedicated to his craft in ways other actors aren’t.

Nicolas Cage has spoken about his “goth” nature in a new interview, accompanying the revelation that he looks after a pet crow.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the actor revealed that his crow – named Hoogan – lives in a geodesic dome at Cage’s Las Vegas residency.He also spoke about his cats Merlin and Teegra, and said that the bird had “taken to calling me names,” adding that it was “comical” to him. “When I leave the room, he’ll say, ‘Bye,’ and then go, ‘Ass.’”“Crows are very intelligent.

Ethan Shanfeld Nicolas Cage stars as himself in the new trailer for “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” premiering in theaters on April 22, 2022.The movie follows a debt-ridden Cage as he accepts a $1 million offer to attend a wealthy super-fan’s (Pedro Pascal) birthday party in Spain.

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, where Nicolas Cage plays a version of himself.Directed by Tom Gormican, the action comedy film stars Cage as a fictionalised interpretation of himself who is “creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin”.A synopsis reads: “The fictionalised version of Cage must accept a $1million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal).”“Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) and

2021 marks another year of Nicolas Cage’s unflagging commitment to star in virtually any film his agent offers him. And par usual, Cage brought his idiosyncratic A-game to each film that starred him.

Tiffany Haddish is set to join Nicolas Cage for the action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.The actress has signed on for the film, which also features Pedro Pascal and Sharon Horgan, in which Cage plays a version of himself.Directed by Tom Gormican, the production centers on a creatively unfulfilled Cage, who is facing financial difficulties and agrees to attend the birthday of a superfan, played by Pascal for $1 million.Haddish will portray a federal agent, who forces Cage to go

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Haddish has signed on to co-star opposite Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal and Sharon Horgan in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the Lionsgate meta action-comedy that has Cage playing a version of himself.Tom Gormican, who co-wrote the script with Kevin Etten, is directing the pic, which follows a fictionalized, creatively unfulfilled Cage who, in the face of financial ruin, accepts a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a super fan

Also Read: 'The Mandalorian': How Pedro Pascal's Bounty Hunter Differs From Boba FettThe film will be directed by Tom Gormican from a screenplay by Tom Gormican & Kevin Etten. The producers are Kevin Turen, Kristin Burr and Mike Nilon.The film is expected to go into production this fall.Pascal stars as the title character in Disney+’s “The Mandalorian” which is premiering its second season this fall.

Kidnapping, cartels and Cage

In today’s film news roundup, Nicolas Cage’s “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” and indie drama “Shooting Heroin” get release dates, the “Big Fur” documentary finds distribution and Ezra Miller forms a production company.

Lionsgate has set a March 19, 2021 wide-release date for “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” the meta action comedy that stars Nicolas Cage as a version of himself.

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