“Deadpool & Wolverine” was the second biggest movie of the year, following “Inside Out 2,” but it could have been even bigger. The highest-grossing R-rated movie ever globally, it raked in 1.3 billion this year worldwide, became the 18th highest-grossing film of all time, and became the sixth highest-grossing Marvel movie ever, only bested by four “Avengers” films and “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”

Filled to the brim with cameos, of course, Chris Evans as the Human Torch, Channing Tatum as Gambit, Wesley Snipes as Blade, Jennifer Garner as Elektra and more, there were definitely more cameos on the table in early drafts.

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It’s been two weekends since the release of “Deadpool & Wolverine,” and it’s been a massive hit for Marvel Studios. But now is also when Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy are ready to talk about all the cameos in the film. So, if you haven’t seen the film yet and don’t want to be spoiled, then you should definitely avoid… basically the whole internet. 

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Without a doubt, the most buzzed about part of “Longlegs” is the performance by Nicolas Cage. Hidden from most of the marketing, Cage plays a serial killer in the film, under a heavy bit of makeup making him unrecognizable. That said, he’s truly terrifying and one of the best parts of the film. He’s so good that people will probably want to see Cage take on another serial killer role in the future.

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For all intents and purposes, Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is Maika Monroe’s film. She’s in nearly every frame of the movie. But when people talk about how wild the film is, they’re probably going to start with Nicolas Cage’s performance as the title character, a serial killer with a very unique appearance. And you’d probably be surprised where Cage gathered his inspiration for Longlegs from.

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The modern horror film is missing a key ingredient that you seemed to always have in decades past—creepiness. Instead of taking your time and allowing dread and terror to hang around you, creeping inside of your brain, modern horror films rely so heavily on jump scares. Sure, that scares you in the moment, but it doesn’t lead to a truly horrifying experience. That’s where a film like Osgood Perkins’ frightening, wild, and endlessly dark “Longlegs” comes in. 

Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is a female FBI agent who has a knack for incredibly reliable hunches.

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Not many people have seen the film, but one thing is for sure—NEON has hit the ball out of the park with the marketing of “Longlegs.” It’s especially commendable because clearly Nicolas Cage plays a vital role (and he’s seemingly under makeup even) and there is barely a glimpse at him in any of the trailers. But it’s working, and apparently the film is pretty damn good too.

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Nicolas Cage never went away, but he’s had a recent career resurgence. “Pig” and “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” were both critical successes for the star. Last year’s more commercial “Renfield” put Cage’s talent front and center as he took on the iconic, villainous role of Dracula. And the surreal, nuanced turn in “Dream Scenario” even put him back in the Oscar conversation last year, even if he ultimately missed a nomination.

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Even though it’s clear that most streaming services are looking to be more frugal, that isn’t stopping Prime Video from giving the greenlight to a couple brand-new, IP-driven series, “Noir” and “Tomb Raider.”

READ MORE: ‘The Boys’ Gets Early Season 5 Renewal And ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Is Coming Back For Season 2

Today, as part of the streaming service’s TV upfronts, Prime Video announced that two new series are moving forward.

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The Cannes Film Festival is quickly approaching and begins on Tuesday, May 15, next week. With that comes lots of first-look images, new trailers, new clips, and more promotional aspects of some of the most highly anticipated films of the year (see our Cannes 2024 preview here). Three clips from David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” recently appeared on the Cannes Film Festival website, and more promotional elements are also surfacing.

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Nicolas Cage has a knack for picking interesting films lately. Even if the final product isn’t so great, there’s no denying Cage likes to perform in films that are unique. And his latest, titled ‘The Carpenter’s Son” looks to be no different.

READ MORE: ‘Arcadian’ Review: Nic Cage-Led Monster Movie Manages Heart & Horror in Equal Measure

According to Deadline, Nicolas Cage is set to star opposite FKA Twigs, Noah Jupe, and Souheila Yacoub in the upcoming supernatural horror film, “The Carpenter’s Son.” The film, directed by Lotfy Nathan takes inspiration from the Bible and Jesus’ childhood to tell the story of a boy who discovers he has powers after rebelling against his guardian.

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A father and his twin teenage sons fight to survive in a remote farmhouse at the end of the world. In the new RLJE indie “Arcadian,” Nicolas Cage must try and parent and keep his children alive during a perilous post-apocalyptic setting where pollution has destroyed much of the world and created dangerous mutated creatures.

The film stars Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, and Sadie Soverall, but if you’re looking for “rage Cage,” you’ve come to the wrong place.

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In Benjamin Brewer’s compelling solo directorial debut, “Arcadian,” humanity’s last remnants grapple with the harrowing aftermath of a mysterious apocalypse, where our species survival hangs by a thread amidst the looming threat of monstrous adversaries that come in the night. This atmospheric tale manages to blend family domesticity and raw emotion with gripping horror and excellent creature effects, weaving a fresh and engaging narrative. Despite this being a tale we’ve definitely seen before, the film should manage to make horror audiences clutch their pillows or popcorn with its sharply crafted scares and potentially even tug at the heartstrings of those with children.

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Last month, it was reported that Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage was in “serious talks” to reprise his “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” role for a live-action “Spider-Man Noir” series incarnation. And just this past weekend, during a recent chat with Collider at the SXSW festival in Austin to promote his new film “Arcadian,” Cage confirmed those conversations. The actor also cited some of the period aspects as being an appealing angle, being able to channel 1930s screen legends like Humphrey Bogart, Edward G.

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Nicolas Cage (“Dream Scenario,” “Mandy”) clearly likes his “The Trust” director Benjamin Brewer as they’ve reunited for “Arcadian,” a post-apocalyptic thriller that will make its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 11 and arrive in theaters on April 12 via RLJE Films who picked the film up for distribution earlier this year.

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Sony is really taking a beating with its Spider-Man universe of late. While the “Spider-Man” movies produced by Marvel are still gigantic mega-hits and the animated ‘Spider-Verse’ movies are critically acclaimed blockbusters (the first one won the Best Animated Feature Oscar), the rest of their SSMU (Sony’s Spider-Man Universe) woefully lags behind. “Morbius” was 2022’s superhero laughingstock, and “Madame Web” appears as if it will be 2024’s version (the film opened to a paltry $25.8 million this weekend and was a huge critical dud).

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“Every year, there is another.” Dropped on Twitter last past weekend, a cryptic teaser that fans had to decipher and translate, Neon showed us all—even those who didn’t understand what they were seeing—the first look at “Longlegs.” An FBI horror thriller that sounds a little like “Silence Of The Lambs” in its mix of crime agencies and horror films, the movie is written and directed by Oz Perkins, the filmmaker behind “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House” and episodes of “The Twilight Zone” (Perkins is also an actor and the son of classic Hollywood actor Anthony Perkins).

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If there is anyone in Hollywood who marches to the beat of their own drum, it’s Nicolas Cage. Whether he’s doing incredibly unique performances in wild genre films or really nuanced performances in acclaimed dramas, you don’t know what you’re going to get with Cage. So, it really should be of no surprise to hear that Nicolas Cage is ready to quit film entirely and devote his life to TV acting.

In a new interview with UPROXX, Nicolas Cage talked about his desire to leave film shortly and “switch formats” in an effort to keep acting interesting for him as he ages.

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Of all the cameos in Andy Muschietti‘s “The Flash” (and there were a lot of them), Nic Cage‘s brief appearance as Superman easily soars to the top of the list. But EW reports (via Yahoo Entertainment) that according to the actor, what the audience sees of his Kal-El onscreen isn’t what he did on set. Far from it, in fact.

READ MORE: Tim Burton Didn’t Care For Nic Cage’s Cameo In ‘The Flash’: “I’m In Quiet Revolt Against All This”

In “The Flash,” Cage cameos as the iconic superhero he was going to play in the ’90s for Tim Burton for “Superman Lives“ before Warner Bros.

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Based on word of mouth out of TIFF, A24 may have yet another hit on their hands with Kristoffer Borgli‘s “Dream Scenario“? Don’t believe the hype? Well, leading man Nicolas Cage has a new behind-the-scenes promo for the upcoming satire, explaining why critics are so excited about this one.

READ MORE: ‘Dream Scenario’ With Nicolas Cage Tops 2023 TIFF Platform Slate

And, yes, it has a lot to do with Cage himself.

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It’s interesting to see how director Werner Herzog’s career has evolved in recent years, penetrating into the mainstream world of pop culture with a pivot to acting work on things such as “The Mandalorian,” “Jack Reacher,” “The Simpsons,” and even something as oddball as “Rick & Morty” (to be fair, he keeps cranking out docs and films, they just haven’t had the same cultural reach as late).

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You’ll forgive us for not seeing everything at the Toronto International Film Festival, some things fall through the cracks, and arguably the biggest, one we’re still dying to see is “Dream Scenario” starring Nicolas Cage. It’s a surreal A24 comedy starring Cage, co-produced by Ari Aster (“Beau Is Afraid”), with the music made by occasional Arcade Fire musician Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy).

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The Toronto Film Festival is almost a month away and that means there are more films still to be announced as part of the 2023 slate. Today, TIFF revealed the 10 movies selected as part of the competition Platform program. They include works from 12 countries across three continents including Kristoffer Borgli’s follow-up to “Sick of Myself,” “Dream Scenario” which just happens to star Nicholas Cage.

READ MORE: TIFF 2023: New Films From Taika Waititi, Craig Gillespie, Anna Kendrick, Viggo Mortensen

While the Platform program is entering its eighth year, it has included notable works such as Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight,” Pablo Larrain’s “Jackie,” William Oldroyd’s “Lady Macbeth,” Armando Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin,” Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal,” and Alice Winocour’s “Proxima,” among others.

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There’s always that moment, that special moment, when an actor of some note first appears onscreen in any one movie or show. From the moment their presence becomes known, they instantly turn on an uber-signature persona that is unique to the individual. Many can pull this off, usually the more high-profile the personality, but few can elicit the type of smile Nicolas Cage can produce as he slides into the backseat of a car when the audience first lays eyes on him in his newest effort, “Sympathy for the Devil.“ Sporting his own menacing grin, it’s everything one’s come to expect from the offbeat character that is Cage, and in that briefest of seconds, is somehow able to remind the viewer of what this man is all about and what may lay in store over the course of the film’s 90 minutes.

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It’s kinda nice to be at the point in Nicolas Cage’s career where the actor is willing to take truly batshit crazy roles. And a lot of the time, it feels as if the films he stars in are tailor-made for his own unique brand of acting. So, while on paper, “The Retirement Plan” feels like a lame attempt to replicate the “Taken”/Old guy with a particular set of skills formula, everything feels more interesting and exciting with Cage leading the way.

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Since its inception in 1996, Quebec’s Fantasia International Film Festival has grown into the premiere festival for genre film. And the 2023 edition of the festival, set to kick off on July 20, now has a guest of honor that’s perfect for its niche. Deadline reports that Nicolas Cage will receive the Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award at Fantasia Fest later this month. The actor will also be at the fest for the world premiere of his latest film, “Sympathy For The Devil.”

READ MORE: ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Is Unhinged As A Psychopath Terrorizing A Man In His Car

Directed by Yuval Adler, “Sympathy For The Devil” sees a cat-and-mouse game unfurl between Joel Kinnaman‘s “The Driver” and Cage’s mysterious “The Passenger.”  Luke Paradise pens the film’s script, where nothing is what it seems.

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