Nicolas Cage Joins 'Massive Talent' Co-Stars, Wife Riko, & Son Weston at L.A. Screening

Jessica Alba sure knows how to have a good time!The L.A.’s Finest actress celebrated her 41st birthday on Thursday, April 28. In honor of the big day, she invited some huge stars to Los Angeles hotspot Delilah in West Hollywood.A source close to the Honest Company founder told E! News that she rented out the entire restaurant for the occasion.“The music was loud and it was definitely a dance party,” the party insider told the publication.

Carson Burton The VFX team on “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” is no stranger to the intensive process of de-aging a known figure such as Nicolas Cage. For the film, the team was tasked to make Cage, who is 58 years old, appear about 20-25 years younger for the character of Nicky Cage. Nicky, Cage’s imagined younger self in the film, aims to keep the character of Nick Cage (with a K) on the road of being an uber-popular celebrity.

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent have revealed that Daniel Day-Lewis was once in line to play Nicolas Cage in the new film.The movie sees Cage play a fictionalised version of himself alongside the likes of Pedro Pascal and Tiffany Haddish, who portray different characters to their actual selves.Writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten have opened up about early struggles getting the film made, with Cage initially hesitant to take on the role of playing himself.“We were told that Nick has done these projects before and he’s not wild about Nick as Nick,” Etten recalled to The Hollywood Reporter. “And we weren’t two guys who had a huge body of work that you could point to and be like, ‘No, trust us.’“We knew that we needed to have a real offer to go along with the script.

Nicolas Cage almost didn’t play Nicolas Cage in his new movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” Nicolas Cage tackles one of his most out-there roles yet: a capital-A Actor named Nicolas Cage, who’s adored by fans all over the world for the intensity and eccentricity he brings to his work. Here’s a man who once pulled two of his teeth for a part (“Birdy”), but had the good sense to stop short of actually chopping off his hand to play Cher’s hot-blooded brother-in-law in “Moonstruck.” This was before he had all his teeth redone, replacing the devilishly crooked smile that was his signature for the gleaming white grin and flaming wig of “Ghost Rider.”Somewhere in the metaverse, a parallel reality exists where Cage’s big comic-book movie would have been the lead role in Tim Burton’s “Superman Lives.” That’s a disaster averted, according to screenwriter Kevin Smith.

John Lennon and Cage's late father August 'Augie' Coppola. Explaining the meaning behind the name, Cage recalled how his disc jockey father would blast The Beatles' Let It Be album, particularly the song Across The Universe, at his radio station. When the National Treasure heard the song for the very first time at just four-years-old, he was left 'frozen, paralyzed by the music.

Nicolas Cage has announced he's set to become a father again at the age of 58 as he and his wife Riko Shibata, 27, are expecting a baby girl together.The Hollywood actor shared the exciting news on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday 12 April as he said: "I'm gonna have a little girl." He went on to share that he and wife Riko already have a name in mind for their first child together. The pair plan on giving her the moniker Lennon Augie, in tribute to the late John Lennon as well as his late father August 'Augie' Coppola. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter Opening up on the reason behind the names, Nicolas shared how his own father August would blast out The Beatles' Let It Be album.

Nicolas Cage is sharing some very exciting news!

Nicolas Cage is sharing some exciting news! The Oscar winner recently revealed that he is «thrilled» to be expecting a baby girl with wife Riko Shibata.Cage sat down for an upcoming episode of, and made the heartwarming announcement while promoting his new comedy, .«I'm gonna announce some big news for everybody — I'm gonna have a little girl,» Cage said, smiling.He also explained that he and Shibata have already decided on a name, which is inspired both by his «favorite song ever written» -- The Beatles' «Across the Universe,» off their 1970 album — and his father's name, August Coppola.«Her name is gonna be Lennon Auggie,» Cage shared. «I'm gonna call her Lenny for short.»After some heartfelt celebration and congrats from Clarkson, Cage marveled, «I'm thrilled! It's gonna be the biggest adventure of my life.»Cage spoke with ET's Will Marfuggi last week at the Los Angeles premiere of his new movie, and he shared what he's most looking forward to about welcoming a new baby into his life.«I miss it all. I miss watching a child discover things for the first time,» Cage, who is already a dad to Weston, 31, and Kal-El, 16, gushed.

Vampire’s Kiss and The Wicker Man alongside lesser-known obscurities like 1991’s erotic spectacle Zandalee and 1993’s noir-ish flop Deadfall, the video expertly served up four minutes of Nicolas Cage screaming his gills off. Cage fans and skeptics alike ate it up.That cut inspired other highlight reels — Nicolas Cage laughing, Nicolas Cage being silent — but it also presaged a decade in which Cage was often treated more as meme than human.

enthusiastically agree with this assessment. The riotous comedy is something of a “Cage Your Enthusiasm.” Like Larry David on the long-running HBO series, Cage plays a fictionalized version of himself who can’t do anything right. Nic’s career has plateaued, he’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and his marriage has crumbled — he lives away from his wife (Sharon Horgan) and daughter (Lily Mo Sheen) in the Sunset Towers Hotel and downs whiskey like water. So when his agent (Neil Patrick Harris) gets a $1 million offer for Cage to fly to Mallorca and spend a weekend with a wealthy fan, Javier (Pedro Pascal), the actor has no choice but to hop on a plane to Spain.Soon after arriving, however, he learns that two FBI agents (Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz) are on the hunt for his Spanish host because they believe he’s kidnapped the daughter of a political candidate.Says Haddish to Cage: “I loved you in ‘Croods 2’!” There are so many delicious cracks at his erratic résumé: “Gone in 60 Seconds,” “Face/Off,” “The Rock,” “National Treasure,” they’re all in here. Pascal — whose sensitive, goofy performance is a surprise — gives an emotional speech about how he and his father were brought together by “Guarding Tess.” Hilarious.

Nicolas Cage is back on the late night circuit for the first time in well over a decade, and he’s already leaving our mouths agape!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNicolas Cage is back… not that he went anywhere.The actor’s latest movie “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” a meta comedy in which he plays a fictionalized version of himself, is one of several films opening nationwide over the weekend. It’ll compete against director Robert Eggers’ Viking epic “The Northman” and Universal and DreamWorks’ animated family film “The Bad Guys,” as well as last weekend’s champion “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.”Unless ticket sales crash in week two, “The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the third chapter in the “Harry Potter” spinoff series, should retain the domestic box office crown.

Director Tom Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten found themselves suddenly out of work when their sitcom “Ghosted” ended up on Fox’s cancellation chopping block. Determined to work together again, the pair began brainstorming ideas for what they could possibly do next.