- You may not know this, but in addition to being the owner of a series of unfortunate hairpieces and a private island used primarily for wolf-like moon howling, Nicholas Cage also owns a crap-ton of comic books. In fact, he once owned a copy of the most valuable comic book in the world: “Action Comics Number 1,” which features the first appearance of Superman and is valued at $1.5 million. In 2000, the issue was stolen from Cage, and was found in a storage locker more than a decade later. Now this event is being fictionalized into a movie called Action No. 1. So the question is: Who should play Nicholas Cage? The answer: Nicholas Cage. He will play himself as a mullet-wearing voodoo priest with a porn-stache and Tourette’s syndrome. And it will be glorious.
- Elle Fanning, who staked her name to the title of “most talented Fanning” with her turn in Super 8, is going to take a nap. That is to say, she’s going to play the Sleeping Beauty in Maleficent, with Angelina Jolie in the titular role. Jolie figures to be dealing with a lot of makeup and computer-generated prosthetics. No, not because she’s playing a witch, but because her weight has dropped so low that she’s officially translucent.
- Topher Grace, who keeps insisting that he’s not dead, is more than just a seemingly forgotten sit-com star; he’s also a Star Wars addict. Last week he unveiled an 85-minute movie that he personally edited, which was composed of content from all three prequels. Shockingly, the response was overwhelmingly good, a word rarely associated with those three films. While chances are we will never see the finished work, it’s nice to know that a watchable version exists, and we owe it all to the kid from “That 70s Show.”
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