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After years of low-budget indie films, Oscar winner Nicolas Cage is back in demand enjoying a career resurgence and 'commanding $4M a picture.''However, he will do discounts on things if he is really into the project,' an indie movie source noted to THR on Tuesday.The 58-year-old father-of-three reportedly received close to $3M from Universal Pictures for a supporting role as Count Dracula in Chris McKay's horror-comedy Renfield, which hits US theaters April 14. 'Commanding $4M a picture!' After years of low-budget indie films, Oscar winner Nicolas Cage is back in demand enjoying a career resurgence (pictured April 18)Nicolas was said to have been paid $7M to produce and star as a fictionalized version of himself in Tom Gormican's meta action comedy Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which earned $29.1M at the box office last spring.Cage's renaissance has brought him closer to reprising his roles in sequels to National Treasure and Face/Off, which both currently have scripts nearing completion and awaiting his approval.

Four more stars have joined the cast of the upcoming Anaconda reboot movie!

Christmas Day 2025 is bulking up in regards to product. In the wake of Lionsgate dating the Paul Feig directed Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried thriller, The Housemaid and A24 with their Timothee Chalamet ping-pong champ movie Marty Supreme, Sony is darting their reimagined comedy Anaconda starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black.

EXCLUSIVE: After landing Paul Rudd and Jack Black to star, the new Anaconda pic at Sony Pictures is building on its ensemble as Road House star Daniela Melchior is set to join the cast on the new take of the 90s cult classic. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten penned the script, with Gormican planning to direct. Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing through Fully Formed banner.

Jack Black and Paul Rudd are reportedly in talks to star in a new “reimagining” of the 1990s cult creature feature Anaconda.The original Anaconda (1997) was savaged by critics and picked up a number of Golden Raspberry Awards. Despite that, it went on to become a cult classic and made enough money (gross $136.8 million worldwide) to establish a franchise, with Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004), Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008), Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009) and Lake Placid v. Anaconda (2015) all following.Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Erik Stoltz, Danny Trejo and Owen Wilson all starred in the original film, which followed a documentary film crew in the Amazon that comes across an obsessed hunter looking to find a legendary anaconda.Now, as per The Hollywood Reporter, a new version of the film is set to go into production, with Tom Gormican (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) set to direct, as well as to write the screenplay alongside Kevin Etten.The story of the new film is said to revolve around a group of mid-life crisis-stricken friends who decide to remake one of their favourite movies and head into the rainforest, where Mother Nature has other plans for them.It was reported back in 2020 that Anaconda might be getting the reboot treatment, with Evan Daugherty, writer of Tomb Raider and Snow White and the Huntsman, being attached as a writer at the time.Black recently starred in Borderlands, a film that tanked at the box office and with critics, and is now headed to home streaming just three weeks after its theatrical release.Rudd, meanwhile, was one of the stars of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which NME awarded four stars, and said it “ultimately succeeds because it’s so much fun to

Paul Rudd and Jack Black are said to be eying starring roles in a refreshed version of Anaconda.

Angelique Jackson Jack Black and Paul Rudd are in early talks to star in Columbia Pictures’ re-imagining of “Anaconda” from writer-director Tom Gormican. Gormican, who helmed the Nicolas Cage-starring meta movie “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” and penned “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” co-wrote and will direct the new “Anaconda” movie, which is said to put a more comedic spin on the serpentine story. Kevin Etten is the co-writer.

Paul Rudd and Jack Black may be heading to the jungle. Deadline is hearing that while no deal is done, the two are in early talks to star in Anaconda at Sony Pictures. The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Ettin penned the script, with Gormican planning to direct. Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing through Fully Formed banner.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER WARNING: This story mentions major spoilers for “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” now streaming on Netflix. Axel Foley is back in Beverly Hills, and so is Eddie Murphy. “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” director Mark Molloy set out to make a film with the same feeling and tone as the 1984 classic “Beverly Hills Cop” and its 1987 sequel, “Beverly Hills Cop 2.” He calls the latest film in the franchise, “My love letter to the first two films.” Molloy recruited Jahmin Assa, the film’s production designer, to pay tribute to those earlier chapters in numerous ways.

It is hard to believe it has been 40 years since Eddie Murphy first exploded onto the screen as one of his signature characters, Axel Foley, in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. But even if that 22 year old is now 63, he is still on the beat and doesn’t miss a beat all these years later in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, almost seeming to have stopped time with this character who is just as funny, sharp and entertaining as ever.

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.

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.

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.