Why is Nicolas Cage Selling His Houses?

seeing all his homes makes me feel like an ant inside my own little midwestern ranch. graphic design doesn't earn you too much. i'm moving to LA to be an actor

I think Nic Cage buy that house for invest.

Wow, if I saved up for the rest of my life I wouldn't be able to afford ONE of these houses.

Although it does suck that Nicolas Cage has to sell everything he's worked for, when people like Megan Fox and Dane Cook just keep raking it in.

"Why is Cage selling the majority of his properties, especially during such a terrible time for the housing market?"

Probably to buy blow and hookers.

Why has Cage taken shit role after shit role? The man can act, he really can. But blockbusters don't need acting, they need stunts, explosions, nipples, and robots. Not that there's anything wrong with robots, it's just--fuck, I hate seeing this guy squander his life.

dang...so much stuff to worry about losing when you're too rich

The maintenance (and payments) on these homes would be huge. And with the real estate slump, his appraisals wouldn't come in at what he projected (to refinance - rob Peter to pay Paul kind of a deal). He spends on up-keep... falls behind on taxes. It just happens.

@Brundle - you're right... it does suck that he has to sell. But Fox and Cook aren't in Cage's financial league... but I hear what you're saying. Nick is still making BIG bucks. But things have just (clearly) gotten away from him.

@Synth - once you're rich... even if you take a dip, you can build it up again. If Nick did it once... he'll do it again.

He 'had' some nice homes.. What a shame. Im sure he'll survive.

Actually...

I'll be he's selling everything to finance his new project. He wants to become a Lord of War (I hear he has some experience in that field). And it pays a LOT better than Hollywood is paying him now.

Hmmmm... things that make you go Hmmmm...

nic cage not worry bankrupt, because he's only need to ask a job to jerry brukheimer

Just looked it up...

He's made over $100mil in movie salaries. These properties would be assets of a Corporation he's the head of. But even $100mil - reduced Corp. tax bracket and using his write-offs wouldn't cover this amount of real estate. It's the down-swing in the market that's boning him.

Too much too fast Nick!

haha Just lvoe that photo you guys used!!

Nic Cage moves to his new neighbour hood!!

yea but Ranger, being rich doesn't buy your way out of everything...not that i'm trying to rip on cage or anything, i'm just tired of professionals in the industry using silly and pointless excuses for what is fitting in a story for a movie...do you hear what we're saying cage???...don't sell out to stupid idiotic film producers that can't see real talent for what it is...we need better films and better writers and actors need those things to make it happen....and when i say actors...i'm talking about actors that can act...not look good enough to act lol

I bet that Fu Manchu role is looking pretty good right now

The Bees from Wicker Man kinda fucked his career hey?

He obvioulsy may have bigger financial problems than just the $6 mill with the IRS. Can you say DEGENERATE GAMBLER?

Why is selling the New Orleans House?? It's the only one still dry. That's a hot property in waterworld, Nic...You might wanna hang on to that.

HE IS GETTING RID OF THE HOUSE BECAUSE IT GETS MORE WORK THAN HIM AND MADE FUN OF HIS DOLL HAIR!!!

ooh poor Nicolas Cage, apparently he can now only afford a life of semi-luxury. Seriously, just stay in a 5-star hotel, don't buy a mansion everywhere you go!

See this is what happens when the peak of your career was 1995-1997. Honestly, the guy won an Oscar, starred in John Woo's Face/Off and then made a line of decent or shit films (maybe one or two good ones popped out) leading him down a path where his one safe bets are awful action and sci-fi films (Bangkok Dangerous, Knowing), unhelpful franchises (National Treasure) and animated movies (G-Force, Astro Boy). I'm gonna go watch Face/Off and pretend its 1997 when I thought he was one of the best actors working in Hollywood

His Vegas house is rockin'

because he "got hit with a pawp!"

I have to say, he has great taste in houses. His Bel Aire house is fucking awesome. Looks like a castle. I would have a fucking mote and wenches running around that motherfucker!!

Beautiful homes. I honestly think that I've gained a little bit more respect for Nic Cage today after peering into his life a little..

Fuckers rich... has good fucking taste... In houses... If only he could transfer some of that taste for homes into taste for scripts... I think he just needs to work with a better director, to be honest. He's been working with shit directors on shit movies for a long time.. He ALMOST had it with Alex Proyas. Knowing was probably his best movie since Matchstick Men.. Really though... A better director could really help. He needs to be told HOW to act and he's usually pretty good...

He probably just realized that noone needs ten houses.

He will bounce back, and when he does he's gonna buy double the houses he used to own then sell them again then buy triple and so on

@synth @ Trig - these Actor's still don't have the power in Hollywood you may think they have. They didn't pick shitty movies to do. They took what was offered to them. They're working Actors... have bills (obviously)... they have to work. And we ALL KNOW every script that comes around isn't a Shawshank or Gladiator/Braveheart offering. They take what they can get.

Hmmm I dont know ranger.

It's nicolas cage we're talking about.. He comes from a fairly prestigious background as far as the cinematic community is concerned.. He is after all Nikolai COPPOLA. That really says something about his pull in hollywood I think.

He's shown in the past that he can be on top of a role and have relatively unflinching taste when it comes to films. Then he started up with the Bruckheimer shit. Not to say it was bad.. Cause a lot of it was a lot of fun and really good (The Rock) But to say that he's just trying to pay bills? I doubt that very much. He's still one of the more sought after leading men working today and 30 years in the business I would think he would have a better grasp on his career at this point.

I don't know why he's selling his houses, theres a good chance that he's just got too many.. obviously that's probably why...

But come on... Hes in the ranks of Will Smith and Tom Hanks... he may not be as good all the time.. but he definitely picks and chooses what he likes and what he wants to do.

Also.. Ranger, it's not that Im concerned that he does a bomb every now and then.. Its just that it's been one after the fucking other man.
The only real redeeming films hes done were the National Treasure films.. and thats saying something when those were your best efforts in a decade.

@trig - oh, I took your comment in the right light (as you did mine) my friend. I'm just saying that's the shit Hollywood makes, offers Nick, and he takes it.

One think that can kill a career FASTER than doing shitty movies... is to sit around with a pickle in your ass awaiting the next Braveheart. By then... producers/casting agents don't want you because your name has gone cold.

As bad as it may be... Nick has done it right.

I guess it takes a lot of cash to pay for the new mega-realistic hair-plugs he's ordering from Japan. By God, no wonder he takes so many shitty roles, he needs the money to pay for all these fuckers. Oh, Ranger, it's warlord, not lord of war (not correcting you, just quoting a line from the film). That film absolutely showed he can still be a great actor, now it is up to him to attempt to really act and only sign up for films with good scripts, but that probably won't happen.

Ugh. Why is it then, that Christian Bale and Johnny Depp and how about Jude Law even, can go through their respective careers doing little to no crap...

Ill give Nic Cage the benefit of the doubt, he still gets people in the seats, I think that most of his recent movies, as shitty as they've been had usually had really good marketing behind them. Perfect release dates, cool posters lots of pre buzz, good or bad.

Hes marketable.. thats for damn sure. I just think that he should stick to kaufman scripts and working with ridley scott and I would be happier with the guy... cause I do like him quite a bit when hes hitting his A game...
I'd like to see him get back together with the coens even.

@Duche - I remember the quote... lol.

@Trig - all good suggestions, and points. There is a hierarchy in Hollywood. The best stuff gets offered to the A-actors you listed, if they turn it down... it gets offered to the Cage's of the biz. I think Nick is on the A-List... but just on the B side of that page. I don't blame Nick. You should see the shit I'd be willing to film for the millions he's offered... lol.

As for Ridley Scott. Sure... he's one of the best. But he's not cranking stuff out like Spielberg once did. I don't even know how he packed that much realism into Blackhawk Down! That was incredible. Plus, I'm a Bladerunner fan.

Alec Baldwin said it best on Inside the Actor's Studio. He said: 'If you look at everything I've been in... and wonder why I even did half of those projects. I did it for the MONEY! I'm an actor... I like to work.'

Truer words were never said in the Biz.

Ranger, I remember that quote actually. Very true. It is, at the end of the day, a job...

Point taken.

There isn't enough closest for all his movie wigs now. Duh.

I love that show Trig. Alec was WAY MORE entertaining than I expected.

The best thing for me about Inside the Actor's Studio, is even if you're not the biggest fan of their guest that day... After you hear their thought processes... why they picked certain roles... I want to look into more of their work.

Ever see Billy Bob on there change his face instantly to SlingBlade (some call it a Kaiser Blade, but I call it a SlingBlade)... uh-huh!

Good show. I think one of the best on TV.

Holy Shit I knew the guy has made alot of money, but enough to buy all this??? wow

Apparently not.

Even with the $100mil. he's made in his career... after taxes, etc. Just keeping the $35mil BelAire place would have been a push. Clearly the downturn in the market has affected his appraisals and his refinancing plans. He just bit off more than his bank could chew. I don't blame him though... usually Real Estate is the way to go... usually.

"Why is Nicolas Cage Selling His Houses?"

Because he can't afford them. Next question.

Sure, sure Mink... take the Reader's Digest version way out!

lol.

Why should I care again? Because you say so? I'll leave the ponderables of Nicholas Cage's financial desperation for you, Ranger. You seem to be obsessed with money and what not.

"Knowing was probably his best movie since Matchstick Men"

You're joking, right?

He had a good twitch in Matchstick men.

As far as being obsessed about money. No. I happen to know something about Real Estate though. And it's a bugger to live without (money that is).

I liked Nick in Windtalkers and Lord of War. Now... whether I just like the movie and he was in it, it's hard to tell. But I liked them both.

"Knowing was probably his best movie since Matchstick Men"

Lord of War and The Weather Man were good films, with or without Cage, and arguably, would've been better without him.

Knowing is pure junk. Its poorly edited, possesses a plot less believable than Juilanne Moore's The Forgotten, and is replete with a cachophony of Nicolas Cage talking about shit he obviously either doesn't understand, or does and doesn't care about.

The script is just stupid. And the special effects used during the denoument are barely improved over those found in Armageddon.

You're oh so negative.

Agreed. Knowing was ridiculous.

Ill give you Lord of War but not Weather Man..

I would rather watch Knowing over Weather Man any day of the week... I have no argument as to why I just didn't like the movie.

Mmmmhhmm.. I don't know man.. Alex Proyas has a lot of talent.. When it comes to cinematography anyways.. The plot was terrible.. and not once in my comment did I say it was a good movie.. but when compared to Next and Bangkok Dangerous and fucking Ghost Rider, it's a pretty fucking good movie...

Fucking negative nancy...

Kids, this is what happens when you have a hit every two years.

It was pure shit, dude. Pure fucking shit. Sure, it's marginally better than Next (I guess), as if ripping off Dick's 'Golden Man' into a film starring Nicolas 'The Rug' Cage and Julianne Moore is ever a good idea, and better than Ghost Rider (again, marginally), but at least Next and Ghost Rider had something Knowing doesn't: a fucking script.

The entire premise, from beginning to end made no fucking sense. Aliens can see the future, or at least predict fifty years in advance, when and where a star is going to massively increase its stellar outflux. but they can't do anything but give some deranged kid a bunch of numbers to write down and put in a fucking time capsule no one will see for five decades?
And, fuck, that's just the film's beginning!

Yeah, Alex Proyas had talent. Once. In Dark City. And that's it. Someone should revoke his directing license or whatever and force him to watch I, Robot and Knowing repeatedly until his eyes climb up the optic nerves and eat his cerebrum.

"When it comes to cinematography anyways"

Then he should stick with the job of DoP, and leave directing for someone else. Either that, or Proyas should only direct what he writes, like he did with DC.

But, fuck it, he's just hungry too. Like Cage, he'll take any bone thrown his way just to pay the bills.

You need to get laid...

Obviously you've never watched I, Robot on BluRay on a plasma... Fuck yeah.. shitty or not.. fuckin' awesome...

Yeah once again.. I never argued that I liked Knowing.. I really didn't like knowing.. I just don't think it needs to be slammed that hard when compared to his last few outings.. regardless of anything I'll watch anything that makes use of Beethovens Symphony Number 7... 2ND MOVEMENT!!!! Cause that's the kind of shit i like to do..

You shouldn't take everything so seriously Mink. You know... How about a little humor... Maybe crack a smile... Maybe! Sing a SONG!

This is me singing! LAlalaLalalALala...

And at the very least, The Weather Man has Michael Caine, who's worth five Nicholas Cage's. Yeah, right though, like I believe Michael Caine's sperm would ever make a Nicholas Cage. And if nothing else, TWM had a message, it had something to say about life and the journey of modern existence in America.

I can't believe I can never find the time to meet my deadlines yet, for some reason I can find so much time to talk about movies..

You know if I spent as much time working as I do bullshitting on movies I'd be a fucking billionaire... Sadly I like movies far toooo much..
I watched worlds greatest dad last night.. man that was fucking strange.. it was actually kind of good though.. not what I expected.. you know... bobcat goldthwaite directed it.. and its nice to see him working... good fucking soundtrack too... You should all watch it...

"And if nothing else, TWM had a message"

Yeah, a message about pre teen camel toes...

"Obviously you've never watched I, Robot on BluRay on a plasma... Fuck yeah.. shitty or not.. fuckin' awesome..."

No, but I watched a PBS Nova program on the modern forensic application of examining animal shit in murder cases. I'd hazard a guess the experiences are identical, with the exception that the PBS program taught me something.

And you seem to be one of those guys that approach a film from the 'image' side, not the story side. Which explains why you appreciate 'the cinematography' of shitty Proyas films over the insipid plots and script details. They 'look good'.

I grew up reading books, and when I started watching films, I approached them in the same way. From the story side. What makes the story good. Do I care about the characters, does the film have beauty, depth, a message? All of this matters to me, not 'does the film look good in 'IMAX' or on a fucking plasma TV. Like I'm that shallow. Like I give a shit about whether a film makes for a good carnival ride.

Hell, if VHS didn't degrade, if the pplayers were't so prone to mechanical failures, if VHS tapes had random access, rather than sequential magnetic access, Would have never bothered with DVDs. Like I give a shit about the special features. Like better resolution makes the film's story one iota better. But hey, it LOOKS better, so that's what matters.

"regardless of anything I'll watch anything that makes use of Beethovens Symphony Number 7... 2ND MOVEMENT!!!! "

Yeah, see if Beethoven could've seen that his music would appear in cinematic lobotomies like Knowing, he might've become a banker instead.

Just listen to the music, dude, use your imagination instead. That's what I do, and what I see when I listen to beautiful music is far better than most of what I've seen in films (most of which is often a rock score set to a frenetically paced action sequence).

"Yeah, a message about pre teen camel toes..."

You should chalk that up to your shallowness, not the film's.

"You need to get laid..."

Why? Because the only approach to life is found in a high?

Jeeesus buddy.. chill the fuck out.. what the fuck is wrong with you?....

Honestly.. I look at films from both sides.. A truly great film has to have depth in everything story and imagery..

Fucking sew me if I find it entertaining to watch something thats crystal clear and mindlessly entertaining.. that doesn't make me shallow at all.. it means I enjoy the cinematic experience in any form it comes. I don't break it down to its very core like you do. I could, I really could but Im not a miserable person and I really do just try to enjoy everything instead of being the worlds biggest fucking critic.

Get a fucking life man... Im just trying to joke around..

Im really glad that you grew up on books.. Im way too fucking retarded to read a book though.. fuck.. Maybe if it was in 3D..?

Hahaha.. sew me... please don't sew me... I dont want to made into a lamp shade...

"Why? Because the only approach to life is found in a high? "

No because you're a high strung ass fuck who could probably use a little fucking poontang to calm himself down.. fuck any high would help you man... Smoke some fucking weed...

"it means I enjoy the cinematic experience in any form it comes."

So possessing no taste is your excuse?

"No because you're a high strung ass fuck who could probably use a little fucking poontang to calm himself down.. fuck any high would help you man... Smoke some fucking weed... "

That's right, I need to smoke some weed and get laid. So I can be like you? "Just get wasted man, it's all you need, then you be like usssss, just...like...usss".

Sorry, but I'd rather experience the realities of life, pain and pleasure, fresh and on the edge, and not through the haze of one mind-dulling moment of ecstasy after another.

And who the fuck uses the word 'poontang'? Jesus Christ, don't people talk like adults any more?

"I really could but Im not a miserable person and I really do just try to enjoy everything instead of being the worlds biggest fucking critic."

Which leaves you having what? No real opinion? Just another clone, another drone? And I don't give a shit who you fucked or how much money you think you have, so save that for the other postmodern zombies.

And you don't 'try to like everything', as you've already stated quite emphatically how many fucking Cage movies you don't like, you just lack the ability and temerity to say why.

Anyway, this thread is about Nicolas Cage losing his houses(not 'homes', because I doubt he lives in most of them, but like I give a shit), not whether or not Triggax is justified in getting offended because someone, namely me (and at least about several hundred million other people), think Knowing is a piece of shit.

Im not offended that you didn't like knowing. It was a pile of shit movie. I get offended at know it all piece of shit assholes like yourself telling me im shallow for enjoying something their superior mind has distaste for...

Go fuck yourself buddy. Honestly... Go find something sharp and fuck yourself with it.

I thought we might be able to be friends.
But now I see why everyone on here fucking hates your stupid ass.

Cause you're a prick.^^

"But now I see why everyone on here fucking hates your stupid ass."

Perhaps I missed something, like me giving a shit whether you, or anyone else, likes me. So don't try that 'everyone hates you crap', because it doesn't work on me.

And for the record, I wasn't even talking to you or about you in my second Knowing comment. I was talking about the movie, but you responded with what? Name calling? Ok, I get that, but the blame is on you in this thread. What's that you say? You were just joking? Well so am I, buddy! Ain't it cool?

"Go fuck yourself buddy. Honestly... Go find something sharp and fuck yourself with it. "

You first suggested getting laid and then getting high. I assumed you were speaking from experience. Is that the case here as well?

"Cause you're a prick."

Triggax, I leave you with a movie quote:

Jimmy Dix: You're a real bastard, ya know that, Joe?

Joe Hallenbeck: And then some.

He is selling because everything he touch turnes to crap. And because his properties are haunted.

Nicolas Cage selling his houses are making everyone go crazy lol

reasons.


1. Knowing
2. Meth
3. Greed
4. Look at the films he has been in,for each failed movie you lose a house.. Why cuz you were stupid enough to buy a new house after each movie..
5. having to continiously visit his local std clinic after having after getting the clap and the herp from a 13 hooker peanut butter orgy(just an average wednesday night to him)
6. vanity..

Good movie...

"Perhaps I missed something, like me giving a shit whether you, or anyone else, likes me. So don't try that 'everyone hates you crap', because it doesn't work on me."

I give a fuck about how you feel about that comment..? What the fuck do you mean "Works on me"? Like im trying to hurt your feelings by saying nobody likes you. I don't fucking care how you feel.

There are a million things I can say.. But you're right I lack the ability to articulate like you can.

Not because im a clone, or a drone, or a simpleton... It's Because unlike you I don't have the time to wikipedia a topic before every comment.

How bout let's stop the banter here.

and mink dont worry even though we but heads, honestly you know your shit... and if others are on here and read the postings on a regular basis, you will find that out. even if you dont like minks ideas,, sometimes i dont, hell i think he can be a cock muffin,. but still you know your shit mink, and you have the audacity to say what you think, and you actually do research your info... so fuck the haters....

hes going to kill himself.