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Scipio spoke to Bleeding Cool about returning to the franchise, working with Smith and Lawrence, comparing 'Ride or Die' to the previous 'Bad Boys for Life,' stunts, reflecting on his work on another memorable self-aware action-comedy in Lionsgate's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2023), and The Expend4bles (2023). Jacob Scipio in "Bad Boys for Life" (2020)[...]

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent flew a bit under the radar last month when it was released, which is a real shame because it's one of the best movies of the year so far It was made on a modest $30 million budget; it just couldn't find a place in a packed April and[...]

When it comes to the conception of Lionsgate's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, there's a wide range of films covered of the film's subject in star Nicolas Cage Among them highlighted was Paramount's Face/Off, as we see Cage's villainous character Castor Troy's signature golden guns highlighted While promoting the Tom Gormican film, the actor[...]

In fact, the star of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which parodies his career and life, plays a fictionalized version of himself, and he has turned down some of the biggest franchises in cinema history One such difference between the film and the real-life version of the actor is his priorities opening up to[...]

Coincidentally with his latest role as the mysterious Nicolas Cage wealthy superfan Javi in Lionsgate's upcoming The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, life had a way of imitating art Not that Pascal went method or anything, but he was already inspired by Cage's work growing up talking to Entertainment Weekly on his own fondness of[...]

While promoting his upcoming film, where the actor plays a fictionalized version of himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Cage hosted an Ask Me Anything on Reddit One of the questions came from the username BennieWilliams asking him if there were other inspirations behind his character in Kick-Ass as Big Daddy aside from[...]

Upon its surface, an actor like Nicolas Cage would probably be squeamish and tentative before taking on a project like The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, given the nature of its story The film follows Cage playing a fictionalized version of himself that goes to a wealthy superfan Javi (Pedro Pascal) home for his birthday[...]

It's finally April which means we are finally in the month where we get to see The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent This movie has been at the top of my personal "must-see" list since I first saw the trailer in August 2021 during CinemaCon, and everything that we've seen released in the lead-up has[...]

The buzz for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent has been slowly growing since people learned that movie even existed last year Now that the early reactions have come out of South by Southwest and they were extremely positive, people are getting even more excited We're a little under a month away from the movie getting[...]

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is screening at South by Southwest this weekend, and I'm not saying I'm turning green with envy, but I'm turning green with envy Everything about this movie just looks like so much fun, and the more marketing and promotional material we see from it, the more I want to[...]

We got a new trailer for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent this week, and this movie still looks just so delightful It's still very much up in the air whether or not this thing will actually work, but everything we've seen so far does look like a lot of fun The posters appear to be[...]

We here at Bleeding Cool got the chance to see the first footage from The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent at CinemaCon back in August, and it went from not being on our radar to "can we see this movie now, please." It's been a movie that we've been keeping an eye on since August, and[...]

We got the chance to see footage from The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent at CinemaCon back in August during the Lionsgate presentation, and it shot right to the top of our lists Now Lionsgate has released a trailer for the movie after releasing some images and a poster the other day This isn't all the[...]

If there is one movie from Lionsgate that needs to be on your radar, it is The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent We got to see some footage from this movie during the presentation at CinemaCon, and it looks fantastic So it's lovely to see that Lionsgate finally released some stuff from the film They[...]

While promoting his latest film, Prisoners of the Ghostland, the actor opened up to Collider about his upcoming project, the fourth-wall breaking action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, where he plays a fictionalized version of himself He's down on his luck and accepted $1 million to attend the birthday party of a billionaire fan[...]

They showed up the first footage of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and it looks incredible It features Nicholas Cage playing himself, a he goes through a career transition and gets paid to hang out with a rich guy (Pedro Pascal) It turns out Pedro is a wanted criminal, and Cage is brought in to try[...]

Lionsgate released their latest wide poster for their upcoming self-aware comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent that stars Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself who is cash-strapped agreeing to make a paid appearance at a billionaire super fan's birthday party Cage goes uncover for the CIA as an informant since the superfan[...]

In what's probably the most meta comedy since Being John Malkovich (1999) and My Name is Bruce (2007), actress Tiffany Haddish is the latest to join The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, according to Deadline Hollywood The film stars Nicolas Cage, who plays a fictionalized version of himself on the verge of financial ruin when[...]

Add The Mandalorian star, Pedro Pascal, as the latest to join overly indulgent film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, because Being Nicolas Cage is just too bland a title The Wrap confirmed Pascal will play Javi, a Cage superfan who is not that he appears to be The Oscar winner will play a fictionalized[...]

Nicholas Cage is set to star in a new film titled The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent It may in fact be the most difficult role he has ever played: himself The meta-film would see Cage playing Nicholas Cage, down on his luck, taking a offer of $1 million to appear at a Mexican billionaires[...]