Nicolas Cage

At 60 years old, Nicolas Cage has this physical status:

Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), better known as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and filmmaker.

Cage appeared in a number of films including Rumble Fish (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1990), and Red Rock West (1993). Cage received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as an alcoholic Hollywood writer in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), before being regarded with more mainstream audiences in films like The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), Snake Eyes (1998), and City of Angels (1998).

Cage was ranked No. 40 in Empire magazine's Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list in October 1997, while next year, he was ranked No.37 in Premiere's 100 Most Influential People in Hollywood.

In Adaptation (2002), he received his second Academy Award nomination for his role as Charlie and Donald Kaufman.

He also produced Sonny (2002), which was nominated for the Grand Special Prize at the Deauville Film Festival.

Cage owns Saturn Films and has made films including Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and The Life of David Gale (2003). He has appeared in National Treasure (2004), Lord of War (2005), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Kick-Ass (2010).

Films such as Ghost Rider (2007) and Knowing (2010) were box office hits, especially in the case of Knowing (2009).

He has appeared in The Croods (2013), The Frozen Ground (2013), Joe (2014), Dog Eat Dog (2016), Mother and Dad (2018), Mandy (2018), The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Manhood (2019) and has also narrated the film Love, Antosha (2019).

Early life and family

Cage was born in Long Beach, California, to August Coppola, a literature scholar, and Joy Vogelsang, a dancer and choreographer. He was born in a Catholic family. His father was of Italian descent, and his mother was of German and Polish origins. His paternal grandparents, composer Carmine Coppola and actress Italia Pennino, were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata, and his paternal grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Italy. He is a nephew of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actor Talia Shire, as well as actor Robert and Jason Schwartzman, along with actor Michael Coppola, film director Gian Coppola and actress Talia Shire, and actor Robert and Jason Schwartzman.

Marc "The Cope" Coppola and director Christopher Coppola are two brothers of Cage's two brothers. He attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its numerous alumni who went on to become entertainers. He aspired to be a star from an early age and attended UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television. In a school production of Golden Boy, his first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production. "I started acting because he wanted to be James Dean," he said. I caught him in Rebel Without a Cause, east of Eden. Nothing bothered me, no rock song nor classical music—the way Dean affected me in Eden. It blew my mind. "I'm sure that's what I want to do," I was like.

He begged his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, to take a screen test, saying, "I'll see you acting." His outburst was met with "silence in the car." Coppola had already directed Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, and Robert De Niro by this point in his career. Although Cage appeared in some of his uncle's films early in his career, he changed his name to Nicolas Cage to prevent the appearance of nepotism as Coppola's nephew. Luke Cage and composer John Cage's names inspired his choice of name.

Personal life

Christina Fulton, with whom he has a son, Weston Coppola Cage, was born December 26, 1990). Weston has appeared in two black metal bands and appeared in his father's film Lord of War as a helicopter mechanic. Two grandsons were born in 2014 and 2016 in Weston, Cage.

Cage has been married five times. Patricia Arquette, his first wife, married in April 1995 and divorced in 2001.

Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's daughter, was Cage's second marriage. (Cage, an Elvis immigrant, took inspiration from Elvis' appearance in Wild at Heart.) They married on August 10, 2002, and filed for divorce 107 days later on November 25, 2002. On May 16, 2004, the divorce was finalized.

Alice Kim, Cage's third wife, was the queen. On July 30, 2004, they were married at a private ranch in northern California. On October 3, 2005, she gave birth to their son Kal-El (after Superman's birth name). In January 2016, they divorced.

Cage married Erika Koike in Las Vegas in March 2019, but only to request an annulment four days later. He was granted a divorce from Koike three months later.

Cage married Riko Shibata on February 16, 2021. In January 2022, they announced that they were expecting a child, their third child. August Francesca, their daughter, was born on September 7, 2022.

Cage grew up in a Catholic family, but he is reluctant to discuss faith openly and refuses to respond to questions concerning religion in his interviews. When asked whether the film was a religion-themed film or not, Cage replied, "Any of my personal convictions or viewpoints could jeopardize your own personal relationship with the film." I think movies should be left enigmatic, with more questions than answers being asked. I don't want to ever preach. So [whatever you get] from the movie [is] much more interesting than [anything] I could ever have."

Santa Cruz said he was not a politically active actor and that he should do it in his jobs as he learned "more about nuclear power from the film "The China Syndrome." During the 2020 race, Cage endorsed Andrew Yang for president.

Cage has been dubbed one of Hollywood's most generous actors. He gave Amnesty International $2 million for them to use to provide rehabilitation shelters, medical, and reintegration services to some of the 300,000 children forced to combat in conflicts around the world. In addition, he has donated $1 million to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. He was the first artist to promote ArtWorks, an artist collaboration initiative to raise concerns of fundamental human rights at work, such as freedom from slavery and child labor.

Cage has also been recognized by the United Nations for his contributions and his appointment as a UN envoy for Global Justice in 2009 and again in 2013. He fought for Lord of War on the international battlefield to raise concerns of international arms control, backed "Heal the Bay," the UN Negro College Fund's efforts, and the Royal United Hospital's Forever Friends Appeal to build intensive care units for babies.

According to Forbes, Nicolas Cage was once one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, earning $40 million in 2009, but he failed to make Forbes' Top ten List in 2014. Cage had a Malibu home where he and Kim lived, but the property was sold in 2005 for $10 million. He bought a house on Paradise Island, Bahamas, in 2004. In May 2006, he purchased a 40-acre (16 ha) island in the Exuma archipelago, 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Nassau and close to a similar island owned by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. In 2006, he bought the medieval castle Schloss Neidstein in the Oberpfalz area in Germany and sold it in 2009 for $2.5 million. His grandmother, who lived in Cochem an der Mosel, was German.

In August 2007, Cage purchased "Grey Craig," a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2) brick-and-stone country manor in Middletown, Rhode Island. The home has 12 bedrooms and ten full bathrooms, as well as overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, which is a 26-acre (11 ha). The Norman Bird Sanctuary is in the west, and it is located in the Norman Bird Sanctuary. The selling was ranked as one of Rhode Island's most expensive residential transactions. In 2007, Cage bought Midford Castle in Somerset, England. Cage built his homes in Rhode Island, Louisiana, Nevada, and California, as well as a $7 million island in the Bahamas, shortly after selling his German castle.

The Internal Revenue Service issued information in New Orleans on July 14, 2009, regarding unpaid federal taxes on property owned by Cage in Louisiana. According to the IRS, Cage failed to pay over $6.2 million in federal income tax for the year 2007. In addition, the Internal Revenue Service has a second lien for more than $350,000 in unpaid taxes dating from 2002 to 2004. On October 16, 2009, Cage filed a $20 million lawsuit against his company director, Samuel J. Levin, alleging negligence and fraud. Levin was reportedly "had failed to pay taxes when they were due and had invested [Cage] in speculative and risky real estate investments, resulting in (the actor) suffering catastrophic losses.' Cage is also being sued by East West Bank and Red Curb Investments for outstanding, multi-million dollar loans.

Samuel Levin lodged a counter-complaint and replied to the lawsuit by saying he warned Cage that he was living beyond his means and pleaded with him to spend less. "Instead of listening to Levin," Levin's letter states, "cross-defendant Cage (Coppola) spent the majority of his free time browsing for high ticket sales and ended up with 15 personal residences." Levin's lawsuit continued: "In the case, Levin advised Coppola against buying and operating a fleet of yachts, against buying and operating a squadron of Rolls Royces instead of investing millions of dollars in jewelry and art."

Levin claims that the purchase of three additional residences at a total cost of more than $33 million (including 9 Rolls Royces), the buying of 22 cars (including 9 Rolls Royces), 12 pieces of expensive jewelry, and 47 purchases of artwork and exotic items were among Cage's "shopping sprees" in 2007. A Tarbosaurus skull was one of those items on display. Since determining that it was missing, he has since returned it to Mongolian officials.

He owned the "Most Haunted House in America," a home in New Orleans, Louisiana, according to Cage. In the aftermath of Cage's financial difficulties, the house, also known as "The LaLaurie House," was auctioned and sold on November 12, 2009, alongside another New Orleans property for a total of $5.5 million. Despite an opening bid of $10.4 million, much less than the $35 million that Cage had intended to sell it for at, his Bel Air home, which had six loans totaling $18 million, failed to sell at a April 2010 foreclosure auction, despite an opening bid of $10.4 million, much less than the $35 million that Cage had originally intended to sell it for. The house, which was built in 1940 for $110,000, had been owned by Dean Martin and singer Tom Jones at various times.

The house was eventually sold for $10.5 million in November 2010. Another home in Nevada is also up for auction. Cage also sold his Action Comics #1 in an online auction operated by Heritage Auctions for a record-breaking $2.16 million) in November 2011 to help with paying his tax liens and other debts. In 1997, Cage bought the comic for $110,000. The comic had been stolen from him in 2000, and Cage had received an insurance refund for it. It was discovered in a storage locker in the San Fernando Valley in March 2011 and was confirmed by ComicConnect.com to be the copy that had been sold to Cage previously. By May 2017, Cage was expected to be "going left and right" in order to pay off his remaining debts. Cage's by 2022, he had mainly paid off his debts and wanted to be more selective with his film roles.

Cage had stolen a chihuahua and was jailed twice for driving inebriated while filming Peggy Sue Got Married, according to Kathleen Turner in her 2008 memoir, Send Your Roses. Later, she confessed that Cage did not steal a chihuahua and she regretted it. Cage was convicted of libel against Turner, her publisher, Headline Publishing Group, and Associated Newspapers (whose newspaper, The Daily Mail, had repeated the charges when they published an excerpt from the book). Christina Fulton sacked Cage in December 2009 for $13 million and the house in which she was living. The suit was filed in reaction to a demand that she leave the house; the order was prompted by Cage's financial difficulties. In June 2011, the lawsuit was settled.

On April 15, 2011, Cage was arrested in New Orleans' French Quarter district for suspicion of domestic violence battery, causing disturbance of the peace and public intoxication. After Cage allegedly grabbed his wife's upper arm while appearing to be under the influence of alcohol, a police officer was flagged down by onlookers. Duane "Dog" Chapman held prison until a $11,000 bail was posted. He was then scheduled to appear in court on May 31, 2011. On May 5, 2011, the New Orleans District Attorney announced that the charges against Cage had been dismissed.

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Career

Cage made his acting debut in the 1981 television drama The Best of Times, which was never picked up by ABC. His film debut came in 1982, with a minor role as an unidentified co-worker of Judge Reinhold's character in the coming-of-age film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, having auditioned for Reinhold's role. Cast members were quoting his uncle's films frequently, causing him to rename him. Cage's first acting role was opposite Deborah Foreman in the romantic comedy Valley Girl (1983), in which he played a punk who falls in love with the titular valley girl, a plot that was vaguely influenced by Romeo and Juliet. The film was a modest box office success and has been dubbed a cult classic. He auditioned for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncle's film The Outsiders, which is based in S.E. Hinton's book was great, but Matt Dillon took first place. Cage, on the other hand, will co-star in Coppola's version of another Hinton book, Rumble Fish, in the same year.

Cage appeared in three period films in 1984, none of which were well received at the box office. Cage's rival Sean Penn appeared as an acquaintance who is awaiting deployment to the US Marine Corps in the drama Racing with the Moon (1984). Coppola's crime drama The Cotton Club saw him perform a fictionalized version of mob hitman Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, receiving praise from critic Paul Attanasio for "artfully [using] his few hours to create a brawny, ferocious thug." Alan Parker's last year as president of Vietnam was his drama Birdy, in which he starred with Matthew Modine as two close friends and their trauma from serving in the Vietnam War. Cage lost weight for the role and had two of his front teeth pulled out to appear disfigured. Despite underperforming at the box office, the film, and Cage and Modine's performances, all received rave feedback, including New York Times critic Janet Maslin's comment, "Mr. Cage very sympathetically captures Al's excitement and apprehension." These actors work miracles with what might have been unplayable."

Cage appeared in The Boy in Blue and his uncle's fantasy comedy Peggy Sue Got Married (1987) as the husband to Kathleen Turner's character, who has travelled back in time to their high school days. He appeared in Coen brothers' crime film Raising Arizona (1987) as a dim-witted ex-con. Cage's biggest breakthrough came in 1987 with the romantic comedy Moonstruck, in which he costarred alongside Cher as a hot-tempered baker who falls in love with his estranged brother's widowed fiancé. Both critics and audiences loved the film, earning Cage's Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in his retrospective analysis.

Cage appeared in the black comedy Vampire's Kiss in 1989 as a man who falls in love with a vampire and then finds out he is a vampire. The film was a big box office loss, but it has since emerged as a result of Cage's incredible and over-the-top success on internet memes, largely due to Cage's surrealistic and over-the-top success. Mr. Cage's "storming, self-indulgent presence" ended the film, according to critic Vincent Canby. He appeared in David Lynch's romantic crime film Wild at Heart (1990) in Zimbabwe, from gangsters hired to murder Cage's character "Sailor" Ripley. Cage was attracted to the venture because it allowed him to impersonate Elvis Presley, one of his heroes, in scenes in which Sailor appears. Since winning the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, Wild at Heart received mixed reviews on its first day. For the avant-garde concert performance, Cage will reunite with Lynch and Dern. Industrial Symphony No. 10 is a performance by Cage. 1.

He appeared as a helicopter pilot in the action film Fire Birds (1990), which was also panned by critics and also negative compared to Top Gun (1986). The erotic thriller Zandalee (1991), Cage's next film, was released in the United States, where it did not receive a theatrical release. Roger Ebert's "goofy 'everyman'" role in the romantic comedy Honeymoon (1992) earned him some deserved critical attention, including from Roger Ebert, who defended Cage despite some commentators' finding his acting "excessive" and earned Cage his second Gloden Globe nomination. This was his first time hosting the program, he hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live to promote the film. None of Cage's three films in 1993, Deadfall (directed by Christopher), Amos & Andrew, and Red Rock West, all did well at the box office, although critics lauded the last-mentioned neo-noir thriller in which he played a drifter mistaken for a hitman. Cage with Shirley MacLaine as a Secret Service agent guarding a former First Lady (1994) was dismissed as a derivative by some commentators, although others dismissed it as being derivative. He appeared in the romantic comedy It Could Happen to You as a cash-trapped police officer who wants to share his lottery earnings with a waitress and then the much-anticipated box office flop Christmas comedy Trapped in Paradise with the Saturday Night Live actors Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey. According to Lovitz, Cage directing portions of the film because its producer, George Gallo, gave no direction.

Many observers praised Cage's performance in the crime film Kiss of Death (1995) as the film's best film yet, but his most notable role in the film's Leaving Las Vegas as an alcoholic screenwriter in Las Vegas was a prostitute. The role was recognized by the Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. In Adaptation, his other nomination was for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald. Martin Scorsese's 1999 New York City paramedic drama Bringing Out the Dead and Ridley Scott's 2003 black comedy crime film Matchstick Men, in which he played a con artist with obsessive compulsive disorder. The bulk of Cage's films that have received financial success were in the action/adventure genre. These include The Rock, in which Cage plays a young FBI chemical weapons expert who invades Alcatraz Island in the hopes of neutralizing a terrorist threat, Con Air, a film in which he portrays a former army ranger who has to prevent hijackers on an airplane, and World Trade Center director Oliver Stone's film about the September 11 attacks. The suspense thriller 8mm (1999) is considered a cult film. He appeared in Captain Corelli's Mandolin in 2001 and learned how to act the mandolin from scratch for the role. Sonny, a 2002 film, made his directorial debut.

National Treasure, his second-highest grossing film to date, stars an eccentric historian who goes on a daring journey to uncover treasure that is otherwise unknown to the Founding Fathers of the United States. Despite national release and positive reviews for his performances, he headlined Lord of War and The Weather Man, but there was no audience for his performances in 2005. The Wicker Man's 2006 remake was poorly reviewed, and it failed to make up its $40 million budget. The much-anticipated Ghost Rider (2007), which is based on the Marvel Comics character, did well, grossing more than $45 million (the top earner) over the weekend and more than $208 million worldwide, which ended on March 25, 2007. He appeared in B-movie's fake trailer Dr. Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie's fake trailer Werewolf Women of the South, which also included a glimpse into an alternate timeline in Cage's film, The Family Man (2000).

Cage appeared backstage at a Ring of Honor wrestling show in New York City in November 2007 looking for the lead role in The Wrestler. However, Cage dropped out of film shortly afterward because he did not have enough time to prepare for the role, and director Darren Aronofsky preferred Mickey Rourke for the lead role. Rourke will continue to receive an Academy Award nomination for his work. Aronofsky said of Cage's decision to leave the film that "Nic was a complete gentleman" in a chat with him, and that he knew my heart was with Mickey and stepped away. I have so much respect for Nic Cage as an actor, and I agree it could have been a success with Nic, but... you know, Nic was one of Mickey's closest friends who are old friends with Mickey who wanted to help with this challenge, so he dropped himself out of the competition."

In the film Bangkok Dangerous, Cage appeared as Joe, a contract killer who had a change of heart while doing a night outing in Bangkok. The film is shot by the Pang Brothers and has a distinct South-East Asian feel. Cage appeared in the science fiction thriller Knowing, directed by Alex Proyas, in 2009. He plays an MIT professor who investigates the contents of a time capsule discovered at his son's elementary school in the film. Startling findings inside the capsule that has already come true lead him to believe that the world will come to an end at the end of the week and that he and his son are somehow involved in the demise. The film received mainly critical feedback, but it was the box office champion on its first weekend.

Cage appeared in the film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by acclaimed German director Werner Herzog in 2009, and he appeared in the film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. He portrayed a corrupt police officer with gambling, opioid, and alcohol use. Critics also loved the film, with the film receiving a score of 87% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Cage was lauded for his appearance, with Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune scribing "Herzog has found his ideal interpreter, a performer whose essence is embedded in the artifice of performance: ladies and gentlemen, Nicolas Cage at his best." Cage with Eva Mendes, who portrayed his love interest in Ghost Rider, was restored in this film. In 2010, Cage appeared in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in which he played the sorcerer, and in the next year, Cage appeared in the period piece Season of the Witch, depicting a woman accused of causing the Black Plague to a monastery. Cage's character in Ghost Rider's sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, which was released in 2011.

Grug Crood was the character in the animated film The Croods, which was released in 2013. The Croods received rave reviews from critics and was a box office hit with a $585 million budget against a budget of $135 million. In the same year that he appeared in The Frozen Ground, a thriller crime drama film produced and written by Scott Walker in his first directorial debut, he apprehend Hansen and his sister, a young girl who managed and written by Cage, flees Hansen's clutches. The film has received mixed reviews, but Cage's performance was cited as a highlight and solid.

In 2013, he appeared in Joe, a free crime drama film directed and co-produced by David Gordon Green, a sequel to Larry Brown's 1991 book of the same name. Nicolas Cage is a tormented man who recruits a 15-year-old boy (played by Tye Sheridan) and shields him from his violent father. On August 30, 2013, the film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, followed by a subsequent screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It was a box office flop, grossing only $2.36 million from a $4 million budget, but critics praised Cage's results and Green's course, giving critical praise.

As a pair of ex-convicts hired to kidnap a baby, Cage's second film with Paul Schrader, the reunited him with Willem Dafoe (after Wild at Heart). On May 20, 2016, the film was at its premiere as the closing entry for the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was announced on November 4, 2016. "It's the right guy for the right job," Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote, "It's the right actor for the right cause, and the end is Schrader's best for years: a lairy, unpleasant, and delicious crime thriller set on black-comic chaos." "A rare film to have been shot in Cleveland, Dog Eat Dog certainly looks like it was shot on the cheap, but it needs to stand on the screen with vigor and humour," Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote.

In Brian Taylor's horror comedy film, Mom and Dad, which premiered in the Midnight Madness section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, Cage appeared alongside Selma Blair and Anne Winters. It was unveiled in theaters on January 19, 2018, and critics applauded it, with review firm Rotten Tomatoes referring to his appearance as "over the top." Director John Waters praised the film, naming Mom and Dad as one of the best movies of the year, putting it fourth on his personal top list.

Cage appeared in Mandy, an action thriller film that premiered on January 19 at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. "For all of Cage's endless feral performances, good, bad, and forgettable," RogerEbert.com's Nick Allen praised the film, saying that Cosmatos' style-driven, '80s-tastic enthusiasm for strange worlds and characters took full advantage of Cage's fantasticness, as well as some." Mandy's producer Elijah Wood revealed in October that he planned to sizing up an Oscar race for Nicolas Cage and composer Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhannjóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann Jóhann

In the animated film Teen Titans Go! later this year, Cage voiced Superman. Back to the Movies. In Tim Burton's cancelled Superman film, Superman Lives, he was supposed to appear in the 1990s. In Spider-Man: In Spider-Man Noir (2018), he portrayed an alternate monochromatic 1930s universe version of Peter Parker/Spider-Man Noir. Cage's vocal appearance was based on Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson's films.

At the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Viktor and Irina Yelchin premiered a documentary about their son Anton Yelchin, Love, Antosha. Garth Price produced a series of interviews with some of Anton's relatives and collaborators, such as Kristen Stewart, J. Abrams, Jennifer Lawrence, Jodie Foster, John Cho, and Martin Landau. During the film's Narrator, Cage appeared as the Narrator. Anton's book "Total" was published.

Cage had signed to appear in Richard Stanley's Color Out of Space, based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Colour Out of Space." This was Stanley's first feature film since being fired from The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996). Color Out of Space premiered on September 7, 2019, during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness segment, where Cage was recognized for his work with the Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative Award. Following select preview screenings on January 22, the film was released in 81 theaters in the United States on January 24, 2020.

Sion Sono was working on his first overseas project and English-language debut, Prisoners of the Ghostland, starring Nicolas Cage, in December 2018. The film "couldest movie I've ever made," Cage said. Its plot revolves around a notorious criminal, Hero (played by Cage), who is sent to help the governor's adopted granddaughter, who has disappeared into a mysterious place named Ghostland. On January 31, 2021, the film made its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

In May 2020, it was confirmed that Cage would be playing Joe Exotic in a scripted eight-episode Tiger King story, written and produced by Dan Lagana. In July 2021, it was revealed that the scheme had been shelved.

DreamWorks Animation released a sequel to the film The Croods in April 2013. Nicolas Cage would reprise his role in the sequel as Grug from the first film in September 2013. On November 25, 2020, the Croods: A New Age, directed by Joel Crawford, was released in the United States for the first time.

Cage produced and appeared in the 2021 film Pig, and he received critical praise for his performance. In the 2022 action comedy film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, he earned further recognition for portraying a fictionalized version of himself.

In November 2021, Cage appeared in Renfield, the Universal Classic Monsters spin-off film. Cage will appear in a supporting role in Nicholas Hoult's legendary R.M. Dracula's Renfield has returned to Dracula. Chris McKay's script, written by Ryan Ridley, will be directed by him from Robert Kirkman's original story. David Alpert, Bryan Furst, and Sean Furst will star in the comedy starring McKay and Kirkman. Skybound Entertainment and Universal Pictures will co-produce the film. Principal photography began in early 2022.

Cage made his directorial debut in 2002 with Sonny, a low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) appears as his pimp. Cage was only involved in the film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a small number of theaters. Shadow of the Vampire, Cage's first film release, is the first attempt by Saturn Films to film Cage's film career.

Cage revealed at the Bahamas International Film Festival in early December 2006 that he planned to suspend his future acting efforts to pursue other causes. Cage is the executive producer of the Dresden Files for the Sci-Fi Channel.

Cage, a diehard comic book collector, auctioned a set of 400 vintage comic books at Heritage Auctions for more than $1.6 million in 2002. Voodoo Child, he and his son Weston's, created in 2007, which was published by Virgin Comics. Cage is a fan and admirer of painter and underground comic artist Robert Williams. He has written articles for Juxtapoz magazine and bought the painting Death on the Boards.

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