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===Career=== | ===Career=== | ||
In order to avoid cries of ] as the nephew of ], he changed his name from Nicholas Coppola to Nicolas Cage early in his career.<ref>http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=28200</ref> The assumed surname is inspired by ] character ], a streetwise superhero. Since his feature film debut in '']'', in which he had a minute role opposite ],<ref name="actors"/> Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat. | |||
He has been nominated twice for an ], and won once, for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in '']''.<ref name="actors"/> His other nomination was for playing real-life screenwriter ] and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in '']''. Despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared with his more mainstream, action-filled efforts. In 2005, for example, audiences ignored two offbeat, non-mainstream films he headlined, '']'' and '']''. Despite good reviews for his acting and nationwide releases for both films, neither found a significant audience. Poor reviews for the film '']'' did not, inversely, create a hit; to further buck the trend, the critically-panned '']'' (2007) was a significant hit, earning more than ]45 million during its opening weekend (landing in the top spot) and over $208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on 25 March 2007. More recently he also starred in the 2007 movie '']''. | |||
NICK CAGE SUCKS AT LIFE> GHOST RIDER SUCKED. HE SUCKs.AND HE IS GAY! GAY! GAY! GAY! COCKS GAY! In order to avoid cries of ] as the nephew of ], he changed his name from Nicholas Coppola to Nicolas Cage early in his career.<ref>http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=28200</ref> The assumed surname is inspired by ] character ], a streetwise superhero. Since his feature film debut in '']'', in which he had a minute role opposite ],<ref name="actors"/> Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat. | |||
NICK IS GONNA OWN THIS CURSE! CAUSE HE TAKES IT IN THE BUTT! LOL LOL LOL COCKS | |||
its opening weekend (landing in the top spot) and over $208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on 25 March 2007. More recently he also starred in the 2007 movie '']''. | |||
]'' in March 2007.]] | ]'' in March 2007.]] | ||
Most of his financial successes have come from his forays into the action-adventure genre. In his second highest grossing film to date, '']'', he played an ] historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the ]. Other action hits in which Cage has starred include '']'', in which he played a young FBI chemical weapons expert who infiltrates ] in hopes of neutralizing a terrorist threat, '']'', a ] film where he played both a ] and a ], and '']'', director ]'s film regarding the ]. He also had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind ] in ]'s fake trailer ''Werewolf Women of the S.S.'' from the critically-acclaimed B-movie double feature '']. | |||
Most of his financial successes have come from his forays into the action-adventure genre. In his second highest grossing film to date, '']'', | |||
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In recent years, Cage has experimented in other film-related fields besides acting. He made his directorial debut with ''Sonny'', a low-budget drama starring ] as a male prostitute whose mother (]) serves as his pimp.<ref name="saturn" /> Cage had a small role in the grim film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theatres. | |||
Cage's producing career has also seen success. '']'', the first film produced by Saturn Films,<ref name="saturn" /> the company he founded with partner Jeff Levine, was nominated for an Academy Award. He also produced '']'', a death penalty-themed thriller with ] and ]. | Cage's producing career has also seen success. '']'', the first film produced by Saturn Films,<ref name="saturn" /> the company he founded with partner Jeff Levine, was nominated for an Academy Award. He also produced '']'', a death penalty-themed thriller with ] and ]. | ||
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* ] (married on ], ] – divorce finalized ], ]) Cage proposed to her on the day he met her in the early 80s. Arquette thought he was strange, but played along with his antics by creating a list of things Cage would have to do to ''"win her hand"'', including obtaining the autograph of reclusive author ]. However, when he seriously started working through the list of demands, Arquette became scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and went on to marry. | * ] (married on ], ] – divorce finalized ], ]) Cage proposed to her on the day he met her in the early 80s. Arquette thought he was strange, but played along with his antics by creating a list of things Cage would have to do to ''"win her hand"'', including obtaining the autograph of reclusive author ]. However, when he seriously started working through the list of demands, Arquette became scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and went on to marry. | ||
* ] (married on ], ] and separated after four months in ]; their divorce was finalized on ], ]) — the daughter of ], of whom Cage is a fan and based his performance in '']'' on. He later said they shouldn't have been married in the first place. | * ] (married on ], ] and separated after four months in ]; their divorce was finalized on ], ]) — the daughter of ], of whom Cage is a fan and based his performance in '']'' on. He later said they shouldn't have been married in the first place. | ||
* His third (and current) wife, Allison, is a former hibachi chef, with whom he has a son, Kal-El (born ], ]). She had a minor role in the 2007 movie '']'' which he produced. They were married in a island off the coast of New Zealand. They had my father's band perform. Kal-El attends the Baldwin school in a Philadelphia suburb. | |||
* His third (and current) wife, | |||
Cage had a ] home where he and Allison lived, but in 2004 he bought a property on ], ]. In 2005, he sold his Malibu home for $10 million. In May 2006, he bought a 40-acre island in the ] ] which had been on the market for $3 million, some 85 miles southeast of ] and close to a similar island owned by ] and ].<ref>http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1195930,00.html</ref> | |||
On ], ], Cage bought the old medieval castle of ''Schloss Neidstein'' (see ]) in the ] region in ]. His grandmother was ], living in ].<ref>http://www.zeitung.org/zeitung/910086-100,1,0.html</ref> | |||
In August 2007, Cage purchased a home in ], ]. The 24,000-square foot, brick-and-stone country manor, on 26 secluded acres, has 12 bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms and sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean from its perch bordering the Norman Bird Sanctuary. Cage sale ranks in the state’s most expensive residential purchases, eclipsed by the $17.15 million sale last December of the Miramar mansion on Bellevue Avenue in Newport. | |||
The name of his second child is also the birth name of his dog, a ] given to him on his 10th birthday. Nicolas said in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest that he liked the name Kyle, but his wife wanted a unique name. Cage is a long-time fan of comic books and considers them to be the modern equivalent of mythology. He was once attached to play Superman in a film to be directed by ]. Cage even did costume fittings, but the project was cancelled due to budget and screenplay concerns. | |||
NICK SUCKS AND SO DOES NATIONAL TREASURE! | |||
Nicolas was director ]'s first choice to play ] in the movie '']''. (Apparently this was before he met ].) Cage has a tattoo of ] on his body (which, in an ironic twist, had to be covered with makeup when he played the character in a big-budget film adaptation). He has even created a ], with his son Weston, called '']'', which is published by ]. | |||
==Filmography== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Year !! Film !! Role !! U.S. box office gross | |||
|- | |||
| ] || '']'' || Brad's Bud || $27,092,880 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Randy || $17,343,596 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Smokey || $2,494,480 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Nicky and Bud || $6,045,647 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Vincent Dwyer || $25,928,721 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Sergeant l Columbato ||$1,455,045 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || ] || $275,000 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Charlie Bodell ||$41,382,841 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || H. I. McDunnough ||$22,847,564 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Ronny Cammareri ||$80,640,528 | |||
|- | |||
| ] || '']'' || Man In Red Sports Car || N/A | |||
|- | |||
| ] || '']'' || Peter Leow ||$725,131 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="4"| ] || ''Time to Kill'' || Enrico Silvestri ||N/A | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Jake Preston ||$14,760,451 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Sailor || $14,560,247 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Johnny || N/A | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="1"| ] || '']'' || Jack Singer || $35,208,854 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Amos Odell ||$9,745,803 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Eddie || $18,369 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="5"| ] || '']'' || || N/A | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Michael Williams || $2,502,551 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Doug Chesnic || $27,058,304 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Charlie Lang || $37,939,757 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Bill Firpo || $6,017,509 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Little Junior Brown || $14,942,422 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Ben Sanderson || $32,029,928 | |||
|- | |||
| ] || '']'' || Dr. Stanley Goodspeed || $134,069,511 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Cameron Poe || $101,117,573 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Castor Troy/Sean Archer || $112,276,146 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Seth || $78,685,114 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Rick Santoro || $55,591,407 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Tom Welles || $36,663,315 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Frank Pierce || $16,797,191 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Randall "Memphis" Raines || $101,648,571 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Jack Campbell || $75,793,305 | |||
|- | |||
| ''Welcome to Hollywood'' || Himself || N/A | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Himself || N/A | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || Captain Antonio Corelli || $25,543,895 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || ] (Voice) || N/A | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Sgt. Joe Enders || $40,914,068 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || ] and Donald Kaufman || $22,498,520 | |||
|- | |||
| ''Sonny'' || Acid Yellow (Also director) || $30,005 | |||
|- | |||
| ] || '']'' || Roy Waller || $36,906,460 | |||
|- | |||
| ] || '']'' || ] || $173,008,894 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="2"| ] || '']'' || Yuri Orlov || $24,149,632 | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || David Spritz || $12,482,775 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="3"| ] || '']'' || Zoc (Voice) || $28,142,535 | |||
|- | |||
|| ''] || Edward Malus || $23,649,127 | |||
|- | |||
|| '']'' || John McLoughlin || $70,236,496 | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan="4"| ] || '']'' || ] || $114,824,199 | |||
|- | |||
|'']'' || ] - segment '']'' || $25,031,037 | |||
|- | |||
|'']'' || Cris Johnson || $28,149,968 | |||
|- | |||
|''] || ] || | |||
|- | |||
|rowspan=2|] || ''Time Share'' || || | |||
|- | |||
| '']'' || | |||
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==Criticism== | |||
Cage has drawn much criticism from fans and film critics alike for his acting style. Another popular point of Cage's critics is his habit of remaking classic movies into significantly worse incarnations, including the 1973 horror cult classic <i>the Wicker Man</i>, and the 1987 Cannes Film Festival winning <i>Wings of Desire</i>, which became <i>City of Angels</i>. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Nicolas Cage | |
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Nicolas Cage posing for photos with fans on the set of National Treasure: Book of Secrets at the University of Maryland. | |
Born | Nicholas Kim Coppola |
Other names | Nikky Cage |
Years active | 1986 - present |
Spouse(s) | Patricia Arquette (1995-2001) Lisa Marie Presley (2002-2004) Alice Kim (2005-present) |
Nicolas Cage (born January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. He has also worked as a director and producer, through his production company Saturn Films. As of 2007, Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role, winning the award for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas.
Biography
Early life
Cage was born Nicholas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California. His father, August Floyd Coppola, is a writer and comparative literature professor, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a choreographer and ballet dancer who suffered from chronic depression. The two divorced in 1976. Cage's mother is of German descent and his father is Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the cousin of director Sofia Coppola and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are Christopher Coppola, a director, and Marc "The Cope" Coppola, a New York radio personality. Cage is a Christian, he was raised Catholic.
Cage, who went to Beverly Hills High School (the same high school as fellow entertainers Albert Brooks, Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Rob Reiner, Bonnie Franklin and David Schwimmer), aspired to act from an early age. His first (non-cinematic) acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy. He is also good friends with fellow actor Johnny Depp, whom he advised to get into acting.
Career
In order to avoid cries of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name from Nicholas Coppola to Nicolas Cage early in his career. The assumed surname is inspired by Marvel Comics character Luke Cage, a streetwise superhero. Since his feature film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, in which he had a minute role opposite Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat.
He has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, and won once, for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. His other nomination was for playing real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Kaufman's fictional twin Donald in Adaptation.. Despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared with his more mainstream, action-filled efforts. In 2005, for example, audiences ignored two offbeat, non-mainstream films he headlined, Lord of War and The Weather Man. Despite good reviews for his acting and nationwide releases for both films, neither found a significant audience. Poor reviews for the film The Wicker Man did not, inversely, create a hit; to further buck the trend, the critically-panned Ghost Rider (2007) was a significant hit, earning more than $45 million during its opening weekend (landing in the top spot) and over $208 million worldwide through the weekend ending on 25 March 2007. More recently he also starred in the 2007 movie Next.
Most of his financial successes have come from his forays into the action-adventure genre. In his second highest grossing film to date, National Treasure, he played an eccentric historian who goes on a dangerous adventure to find treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States. Other action hits in which Cage has starred include The Rock, in which he played a young FBI chemical weapons expert who infiltrates Alcatraz Island in hopes of neutralizing a terrorist threat, Face/Off, a John Woo film where he played both a hero and a villain, and World Trade Center, director Oliver Stone's film regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks. He also had a small but notable role as the Chinese criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu in Rob Zombie's fake trailer Werewolf Women of the S.S. from the critically-acclaimed B-movie double feature Grindhouse.
In recent years, Cage has experimented in other film-related fields besides acting. He made his directorial debut with Sonny, a low-budget drama starring James Franco as a male prostitute whose mother (Brenda Blethyn) serves as his pimp. Cage had a small role in the grim film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theatres.
Cage's producing career has also seen success. Shadow of the Vampire, the first film produced by Saturn Films, the company he founded with partner Jeff Levine, was nominated for an Academy Award. He also produced The Life of David Gale, a death penalty-themed thriller with Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet.
In early December 2006, Cage announced at the Bahamas International Film Festival that he planned to curtail his future acting endeavors in order to pursue other interests. Cage said, "I feel I've made a lot of movies already and I want to start exploring other opportunities that I can apply myself to, whether it's writing or other interests that I may develop". Cage is listed as the executive producer of the The Dresden Files on the Sci-Fi Channel. Interestingly, he is often said to be credited as an executive producer in The Godfather Part III, while it's actually Nicholas Gage, who produced the movie and got a credit for it.
In November 2007, Cage was spotted backstage at a Ring of Honor wrestling show in New York City researching his role for the upcoming movie "The Wrestler".
Personal life
In his early 20s, he dated E.G. Daily for two years, and was later involved with Uma Thurman. In 1988, Cage began dating Christina Fulton, mother of their son, Weston Coppola Cage (b. 26 December, 1990); Weston appeared in Cage's film Lord of War as Vladimir, a young Ukrainian mechanic who quickly disarms a Mil Mi-24 helicopter.
Cage has been married three times:
- Patricia Arquette (married on April 8, 1995 – divorce finalized May 18, 2001) Cage proposed to her on the day he met her in the early 80s. Arquette thought he was strange, but played along with his antics by creating a list of things Cage would have to do to "win her hand", including obtaining the autograph of reclusive author J.D. Salinger. However, when he seriously started working through the list of demands, Arquette became scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and went on to marry.
- Lisa Marie Presley (married on August 10, 2002 and separated after four months in December 2002; their divorce was finalized on May 16, 2004) — the daughter of Elvis Presley, of whom Cage is a fan and based his performance in Wild at Heart on. He later said they shouldn't have been married in the first place.
- His third (and current) wife, Allison, is a former hibachi chef, with whom he has a son, Kal-El (born October 3, 2005). She had a minor role in the 2007 movie Next which he produced. They were married in a island off the coast of New Zealand. They had my father's band perform. Kal-El attends the Baldwin school in a Philadelphia suburb.
Cage had a Malibu home where he and Allison lived, but in 2004 he bought a property on Paradise Island, Bahamas. In 2005, he sold his Malibu home for $10 million. In May 2006, he bought a 40-acre island in the Exuma archipelago which had been on the market for $3 million, some 85 miles southeast of Nassau and close to a similar island owned by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
On July 19, 2006, Cage bought the old medieval castle of Schloss Neidstein (see de:Schloss Neidstein) in the Oberpfalz region in Germany. His grandmother was German, living in Cochem an der Mosel.
In August 2007, Cage purchased a home in Middletown, Rhode Island. The 24,000-square foot, brick-and-stone country manor, on 26 secluded acres, has 12 bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms and sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean from its perch bordering the Norman Bird Sanctuary. Cage sale ranks in the state’s most expensive residential purchases, eclipsed by the $17.15 million sale last December of the Miramar mansion on Bellevue Avenue in Newport.
The name of his second child is also the birth name of his dog, a Labradoodle given to him on his 10th birthday. Nicolas said in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest that he liked the name Kyle, but his wife wanted a unique name. Cage is a long-time fan of comic books and considers them to be the modern equivalent of mythology. He was once attached to play Superman in a film to be directed by Tim Burton. Cage even did costume fittings, but the project was cancelled due to budget and screenplay concerns.
Nicolas was director Sam Raimi's first choice to play Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the movie Spider-Man. (Apparently this was before he met Willem Dafoe.) Cage has a tattoo of Ghost Rider on his body (which, in an ironic twist, had to be covered with makeup when he played the character in a big-budget film adaptation). He has even created a comic book, with his son Weston, called Voodoo Child, which is published by Virgin Comics.
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | U.S. box office gross |
---|---|---|---|
1982 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Brad's Bud | $27,092,880 |
1983 | Valley Girl | Randy | $17,343,596 |
Rumble Fish | Smokey | $2,494,480 | |
1984 | Racing with the Moon | Nicky and Bud | $6,045,647 |
The Cotton Club | Vincent Dwyer | $25,928,721 | |
Birdy | Sergeant l Columbato | $1,455,045 | |
1986 | The Boy in Blue | Ned Hanlan | $275,000 |
Peggy Sue Got Married | Charlie Bodell | $41,382,841 | |
1987 | Raising Arizona | H. I. McDunnough | $22,847,564 |
Moonstruck | Ronny Cammareri | $80,640,528 | |
1988 | Never on Tuesday | Man In Red Sports Car | N/A |
1989 | Vampire's Kiss | Peter Leow | $725,131 |
1990 | Time to Kill | Enrico Silvestri | N/A |
Fire Birds | Jake Preston | $14,760,451 | |
Wild at Heart | Sailor | $14,560,247 | |
Zandalee | Johnny | N/A | |
1992 | Honeymoon in Vegas | Jack Singer | $35,208,854 |
1993 | Amos & Andrew | Amos Odell | $9,745,803 |
Deadfall | Eddie | $18,369 | |
1994 | A Century of Cinema | N/A | |
Red Rock West | Michael Williams | $2,502,551 | |
Guarding Tess | Doug Chesnic | $27,058,304 | |
It Could Happen to You | Charlie Lang | $37,939,757 | |
Trapped in Paradise | Bill Firpo | $6,017,509 | |
1995 | Kiss of Death | Little Junior Brown | $14,942,422 |
Leaving Las Vegas | Ben Sanderson | $32,029,928 | |
1996 | The Rock | Dr. Stanley Goodspeed | $134,069,511 |
1997 | Con Air | Cameron Poe | $101,117,573 |
Face/Off | Castor Troy/Sean Archer | $112,276,146 | |
1998 | City of Angels | Seth | $78,685,114 |
Snake Eyes | Rick Santoro | $55,591,407 | |
1999 | 8mm | Tom Welles | $36,663,315 |
Bringing Out the Dead | Frank Pierce | $16,797,191 | |
2000 | Gone in Sixty Seconds | Randall "Memphis" Raines | $101,648,571 |
The Family Man | Jack Campbell | $75,793,305 | |
Welcome to Hollywood | Himself | N/A | |
2001 | Italian Soldiers | Himself | N/A |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Captain Antonio Corelli | $25,543,895 | |
Christmas Carol: The Movie | Jacob Marley (Voice) | N/A | |
2002 | Windtalkers | Sgt. Joe Enders | $40,914,068 |
Adaptation. | Charlie and Donald Kaufman | $22,498,520 | |
Sonny | Acid Yellow (Also director) | $30,005 | |
2003 | Matchstick Men | Roy Waller | $36,906,460 |
2004 | National Treasure | Ben Gates | $173,008,894 |
2005 | Lord of War | Yuri Orlov | $24,149,632 |
The Weather Man | David Spritz | $12,482,775 | |
2006 | The Ant Bully | Zoc (Voice) | $28,142,535 |
The Wicker Man | Edward Malus | $23,649,127 | |
World Trade Center | John McLoughlin | $70,236,496 | |
2007 | Ghost Rider | Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) | $114,824,199 |
Grindhouse | Dr. Fu Manchu - segment Werewolf Women of the S.S. | $25,031,037 | |
Next | Cris Johnson | $28,149,968 | |
National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Ben Gates | ||
2008 | Time Share | ||
Bangkok Dangerous |
Preceded byTom Hanks for Forrest Gump |
Academy Award for Best Actor 1995 for Leaving Las Vegas |
Succeeded byGeoffrey Rush for Shine |
Criticism
Cage has drawn much criticism from fans and film critics alike for his acting style. Another popular point of Cage's critics is his habit of remaking classic movies into significantly worse incarnations, including the 1973 horror cult classic the Wicker Man, and the 1987 Cannes Film Festival winning Wings of Desire, which became City of Angels.
See also
References
- ^ Saturn Films, Cage's production company
- ^ Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio
- http://www.usaweekend.com/97_issues/970601/970601cov_st_cage.html
- http://au.movies.yahoo.com/Nicolas+Cage/biography/181846/family/
- http://cagefactor.com/aolchat.html
- http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=28200
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20061211/en_movies_eo/538e2299-5566-4447-a0a5-0bcc3bc26e0a 5
- http://www.sescoops.com/wwe/Hollywood_Heavyweight_Backstage_More_On_Suspensions.shtml SEScoops.com
- http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1195930,00.html
- http://www.zeitung.org/zeitung/910086-100,1,0.html
External links
- Please use a more specific IMDb template. See the documentation for available templates.
- World Trade Center Interview with Nicolas Cage From IGN FilmForce
- Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider video interview with stv.tv/movies