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RLJE Films has snapped up rights to the psychological thriller Sympathy for the Devil, starring Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage (Mandy) and Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad films), for North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Bringing the film to the AMC Networks business unit was…

EXCLUSIVE: Neon is in pole position to win North American rights to Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe horror-thriller Longlegs in the first (and only, to date) sizeable domestic deal of this year’s EFM. The multi-million dollar pact, which is being worked through with CAA Media Finance and UTA…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of EFM, Capstone Global and Hammerstone Studios have shared a first-look image of Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinnaman in Sympathy for the Devil, the upcoming psychological thriller from Yuval Adler (The Secrets We Keep). Written by Luke Paradise (the upcoming Lost on a Mountain in Maine)…

UPDATE, with Michael Jackson Estate statement Actor Nicolas Cage and representatives for the Michael Jackson Estate paid tribute to the late Lisa Marie Presley, with Cage saying the daughter of Elvis “lit up every room.” Presley was briefly married to Jackson in the mid-1990s, and to Cage in the…

In the first trailer for Universal Pictures’ horror-comedy Renfield, slated for release on April 14, Nicholas Hoult’s henchman of the same name makes it his mission to get out of his “toxic relationship” with his longtime boss, Dracula (Nicolas Cage). The New Orleans-shot film directed by Chris McKay…

Nicolas Cage has starred in a range of film genres throughout his career but one thing that he hasn’t done is star in a musical. The National Treasure actor is now talking about what character he would like to play if he were able to be in a musical. “I haven't done a musical yet,” he told Empire in…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Nicolas Cage has been set to star in horror-thriller Longlegs for Jason Cloth and Dave Caplan's C2 Motion Picture Group. Plot details are being kept under wraps on the project, which producers say will be in the vein of classic Hollywood psychological thrillers. Osgood…

Director Gabe Polsky has been trying to bring Butcher’s Crossing to the screen for over a decade. When he first read the novel, he was struck by the thematic structure and character development. “It’s a story that’s very fundamental about life and about human nature,” says director Gabe Polsky. Based on the John…

Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) goes from Harvard dropout to cowboy in Gabe Polsky’s new film Butcher’s Crossing, with the script written by Polsky and Liam Satre-Meloy, based on a book by John Williams. Andrews is looking for adventure on the open frontier. School wasn’t cutting it, and now he’s looking for people to…

EXCLUSIVE: After The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and the upcoming Renfield, Nicolas Cage isn’t done showing off his comedic chops as sources tell Deadline he is set to star in the A24 comedy Dream Scenario. A24 is set to finance and produce the pic, with Kristoffer Borgli directing. Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Cage's vodka-loving dragon has a new home. Deadline understands that Highfire, the TV series based on Eoin Colfer's adult thriller novel, is now in the works at Paramount+. In 2020, we revealed that the project, which will see The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent star voice the lead character…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…