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"Welcome to eighth-grade biology, class! Anyway, as you can see from the textbooks on your desks, we will have an exciting semester of learning the apiary arts, arthropod handling, the habitats of lagomorphs, the psychoactive properties of tropical reptiles, and, ahem, human sexuality in the context of the automotive revolution. Also, it's the 1990s, and we're in Serbia. Did I mention that?" More »
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New York Comic Con saw the premiere of new grizzled Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance footage, including Ciarán Hinds done up like the devil and skulls barfing fire. Plus, find out how Crank directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor rebooted the Penance Stare. More »
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Are you an unhinged billionaire? Are you a sucker for impulse buys? Do you sit around wondering if the fellow née Nicolas Kim Coppola is an immortal Confederate soldier who feasts on human blood? Then have I got an eBay purchase for you, pilgrim! More »
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Just because Nicolas Cage is still playing damned stuntman Johnny Blaze in the new Ghost Rider movie doesn't mean that we should expect the family-friendly character from the first film. We've seen a Ghost Rider who's more demon than superhero. More »
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Ever since we saw the gunfight sex scene from Nic Cage's bat-out-of-hell-screwing-shooting-vengeance flick Drive Angry, we've wanted to know more. Now the director Patrick Lussier is cracking open Nic Cage's own personal Hell for us. And chatting about the Hellraiser-reboot. More »
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Nicolas Cage may have hoped Season of the Witch would be a searing Medieval war drama with monsters — but it has more of a Monty Python feel to it. Are you ready to meet the Knights who say Nic? More »
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I hated Season of the Witch when I first saw the trailer. Now I want to watch it. What's the tipping point between bad and so-bad-I-must-see-it? More »
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How will the next Ghost Rider movie be different, now that the directors of the Crank movies are on board? In our exclusive interview, star Nic Cage tells us to expect crazy stunts, sarcasm, and a darker, weirder Johnny Blaze. More »
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Why are pre-apocalyptic stories so popular? We get why everyone loves post-apocalyptic worlds: Everybody wants to fantasize about surviving, rebuilding, remaking the world in a new image. But why do people love stories that take place before a horrible disaster? More »
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The living spirit of vengeance is back! Nic Cage is in Romania filming Ghost Rider 2, and here are the first set pics and video to prove it. Spooky castles and bad-ass bikes below! More »
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Ghost Rider haters, beware — the spirit of vengeance is returning to your screens. Nic Cage has already promised to star in the sequel, filming in Romania, and now the first script review has turned up online. More »
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We got our first look at the trailer for Nic Cage's muscle car and hellfire fueled rampage Drive Angry. Plus, we talked to Cage himself and asked why he plays so many supernatural characters that are literally Hell on wheels. More »
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The weird thing about The Sorcerer's Apprentice is, it takes more trouble to give a pseudo-scientific explanation for its goings-on than most science-fiction films nowadays. And the Apprentice's science-geek chops are foregrounded. It's a fantasy that loves science. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Not every film can be good; in fact, most aren't. But it takes a special kind of failure to make someone just kiss his or her $10 goodbye and get up and leave. More »
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We cornered Nic Cage's wizard in training, Jay Baruchel, to find out just how magical Jerry Bruckheimer's Sorcerer's Apprentice is going to be. Find out how the movie opens, and who would win a Gandalf Vs. Cage sorcery throw-down. More »
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The big reveal at the end of last year's Knowing was more of a cheesy letdown than a transcendant moment — but concept art by superstar book-cover artist Stephan Martiniere shows us how cool it could have looked. Spoilers below. More »
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Did Nicolas Cage really predict the future in his schlocktastic thriller Knowing? That seems to be what tech startup Global Findability is hinting, in their infringement lawsuit against the film. Apparently Cage's method of locating future disasters is already patented. More »
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Science fiction is the antidote to violence... or so says Nicolas Cage, explaining his recent conversion to scifi/fantasy, with movies like Knowing, Astro Boy and the upcoming Sorcerer's Apprentice. More »
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Is life totally random and meaningless? Or is there some predestination, and thus purpose, behind everything? Knowing, opening today, ponders this question and splits the difference: everything is predestined, but it's still all meaningless. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5176248&view=rss&microfeed=true Alfred Molina has been cast as the big bad magic man in Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel's Sorcerer's Apprentice. The modern day fairy tale where Cage is the kindly old magic man who has an interest in Baruchel (who I'm assuming is the mouse in all this). Molina is an evil sorcerer of magician or something. Or maybe the two old guys fighting over who gets to teach the adorable Baruchel. [Slashfilm] More »
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Alex Proyas' Knowing is all about the multigenerational relationships. Nic Cage's character deals with his son and grandson, but he also works with the daughter and granddaughter of the girl who created those numbers. Spoilers! More »
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This whole Seth Rogen phenomenon has yielded one good result: more exposure for sassy Jay Baruchel. Now Baruchel is in line to star in the modernized version of Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice playing, erm, Mickey, I guess. Playing the wizard is omnipresent cheesemaster Nicolas Cage. More »
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It's hard to imagine living with a severe facial deformity, but what about living your life with someone else's face? Until recently, victims of severe facial trauma or burns have had little recourse beyond often ineffective skin grafts. But this week, doctors have declared two face transplants long-term successes. Caution: The photo after the jump shows a facial wound. More »
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Nicolas Cage will be starring in Knowing, where he apparently has knowledge about the future, and Tourette's syndrome. Alex Proyas, who also directed Dark City (yay!) and I, Robot (meh) will direct this flick about a man who digs up a time capsule and finds information inside that he and his son might be responsible for the destruction of the world. Whoops. Not sure where the Tourette's fits in, but I guess we'll find out. [Variety] More »
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