Tag: Leaving Las Vegas
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Nicolas Cage Claims He Personally Chose Tim Burton To Direct The Failed DC Film Superman Lives
I’ve never been much of a superhero movie fan, but one I’d have gladly queued up for back in the 1990s would have been Tim Burton directing Nicolas Cage in “Superman Lives.” Along with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s wildly ambitious non-starter “Dune,” it must go down as one of the greatest what-ifs in cinema history, especially during that…
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John Cusack Wanted His Con Air Character To Stand Out From Other Action Heroes In One Key Way
Celebrating over 25 years of gonzo action mayhem, “Con Air” still packs a real punch. The explosive Simon West-directed spectacle sees a group of some of the most dangerous convicts in the state taking control of the transport plane extraditing them, with one man, played by Nicolas Cage, trying to make it back home to…
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Nicolas Cage Tried to Build an 80 Million Film Studio in Las Vegas, But ‘Then Elon Musk Came In’
Nicolas Cage revealed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that he once tried to get a movie studio built in Las Vegas and had even secured 80 million to do so. What went wrong? The actor said Elon Musk came to town and Las Vegas opted to put the money into the Tesla corporation instead of his…
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Nicolas Cage Wants to Work with Ari Aster and Christopher Nolan Next
This month’s release of “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” a buddy comedy that stars Nicolas Cage as himself, has led to a renewed interest in the actor’s eclectic filmography. While films like “Face/Off” and “Leaving Las Vegas” have always been beloved, many cinephiles are using Cage’s moment in the spotlight to discover the excellent…
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“The Script Had to be Drunk — Drunk Alongside the Characters”: Director Thomas Vinterberg on Balancing Humor and Sadness In His Unexpectedly Life-Affirming Another Round
A besotted cinematic sub-genre consists of films about drinking — liquor, bars and the imbiber’s life. Whether the lives portrayed are rowdy and boisterous ones, or, as is often the case, destructively out-of-control, these films — ranging from Days of Wine and Roses and The Lost Weekend to Leaving Las Vegas — usually map their…
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‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’ Review: Through the Years With Ronnie Wood, a Rolling Stone Who Never Stopped Being Lovable, Even in Excess
Ronnie Wood has always seemed like he’d be nothing if not an enjoyable hang. That proves to be very much the case with “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” a documentary about the Rolling Stones guitarist from British director Mike Figgis (“Leaving Las Vegas”), who has clearly been hitting it off for quite a while with…
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Busan: Mike Figgis to Make ‘Shame’ in Korea With Saram Talent Agency
Newly-enthralled by the dynamism of Korean cinema, leading European filmmaker Mike Figgis is to make “Shame,” an Asian omnibus short film project with South Korean talent agency Saram Entertainment. Known for “Leaving Las Vegas” and “Timecode,” Figgis is head of the competition jury this week at the Busan International Film Festival.“The project will be a…
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Mike Figgis and Mohsen Makhmalbaf to head Busan juries
Figgis to head New Currents jury, while Makhmalbaf will head the jury for the Kim Jiseok Award.UK director Mike Figgis will head the New Currents jury, while Mohsen Makhmalbaf heads the Kim Jiseok Award jury, at the upcoming 24th Busan International Film Festival.The New Currents section showcases first and second features from up-and-coming Asian directors.…
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Andy Gruenberg, Longtime Film Distribution Executive, Dies at 68
Andy Gruenberg, a longtime film-distribution executive who most recently oversaw theatrical distribution for Netflix, died suddenly on January 18. He was 68.Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 10, 1950, Gruenberg spent his childhood in Milwaukee and his working life in the film industry; his tenure included stints at Warner Bros., Columbia, MGM, and Miramax,…