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Time to sell his treasured home not right for Cage
When lean times come to the housing market, even the rich and famous can feel the pinch.
Consider Nicolas Cage. The Oscar-winning actor paid $7 million for his mansion in Los Angeles' Bel Air section in 1998. Then, in autumn 2006, he listed it at $35 million. Local Realtors termed the house overpriced, but Cage, a savvy investor, held tight. Finally, in early December, he took the property off the market.
He can wait for things to heat back up. In the meantime, a book about Gerard Colcord, designer of Cage's landmark home, is in the works, with publication expected in 2008. The house, built in 1940, is an English-style manor on slightly more than an acre with nine bedrooms and nine bathrooms in close to 12,000 square feet. It has a 35-seat theater, wine cellar, game room, pool and circular driveway with a fountain.
And the house has a pedigree when it comes to owners. Besides Cage, whose "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" is now playing in theaters, it was owned by Welsh singer and entertainer Tom Jones and actor-singer Dean Martin. Jones owned the home for 20 years.
Cage's case of home-seller blues is somewhat unusual. Despite a general housing slump, celebs fared well during 2007 in buying and selling homes on Los Angeles' Westside and in Malibu, according to Cecelia Kennelly-Waeschle of Sotheby's International Realty in Malibu.
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Naked invader of Nicolas Cage's house sentenced
A naked man who broke into actor Nicolas Cage's house - and was caught by the actor wearing only his leather jacket - has been ordered to undergo drug rehab. 46-year-old Robert Furo entered the waterfront home near Los Angeles last year, when the Oscar winner was home with his family. The man's lawyer says he was in a stupor caused by sleeping pills.
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Nicolas Cage coming back Down Under to film Knowing
NICOLAS Cage is set for another stint in Melbourne, this time filming the new thriller Knowing. Cage spent several months in Melbourne in 2005 shooting Ghost Rider.
Shooting on Knowing is due to start in March with Sydney director Alex Proyas at the helm.
Proyas -- a prolific television commercial and music video director -- has had feature film success with The Crow, Dark City and the Will Smith hit I, Robot.
Knowing is about a teacher who discovers chilling prophecies inside a time capsule at his child's school. While in Melbourne in 2005, Cage visited various animal parks and enjoyed dinners at the Botanical in South Yarra.
"I managed to enjoy a couple of tours of the different sanctuaries and I got to see the animals up close. That was fantastic," he told the Herald Sun this month.
The Knowing shoot comes on the heels of the Tom Hanks-Steven Spielberg TV series The Pacific, which brought $180 million and 4000 jobs.
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Nicolas Cage Wants Ghost Rider Sequel
Nicolas Cage had never made a sequel until National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Now, that franchise seems to have whet his appetite to return to other characters too. The most likely candidate would be the comic book superhero Ghost Rider.
"All they have to do is call," said Cage. "I would love to see that happen. That would be fun."
Presumably, Mark Steven Johnson and Avi Arad have Cage on speed dial. They will, however, have to follow his mandate. "If I think there's room to grow with the character and if you can make it better than the original, absolutely."
Making the sequel better than the original might not be too hard a feat, considering that critics gave Ghost Rider a 27 percent Tomatometer rating. Then again, it made $45 million in its opening weekend run.
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Time to sell his treasured home not right for Cage
When lean times come to the housing market, even the rich and famous can feel the pinch.
Consider Nicolas Cage. The Oscar-winning actor paid $7 million for his mansion in Los Angeles' Bel Air section in 1998. Then, in autumn 2006, he listed it at $35 million. Local Realtors termed the house overpriced, but Cage, a savvy investor, held tight. Finally, in early December, he took the property off the market.
He can wait for things to heat back up. In the meantime, a book about Gerard Colcord, designer of Cage's landmark home, is in the works, with publication expected in 2008. The house, built in 1940, is an English-style manor on slightly more than an acre with nine bedrooms and nine bathrooms in close to 12,000 square feet. It has a 35-seat theater, wine cellar, game room, pool and circular driveway with a fountain.
And the house has a pedigree when it comes to owners. Besides Cage, whose "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" is now playing in theaters, it was owned by Welsh singer and entertainer Tom Jones and actor-singer Dean Martin. Jones owned the home for 20 years.
Cage's case of home-seller blues is somewhat unusual. Despite a general housing slump, celebs fared well during 2007 in buying and selling homes on Los Angeles' Westside and in Malibu, according to Cecelia Kennelly-Waeschle of Sotheby's International Realty in Malibu.
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Naked invader of Nicolas Cage's house sentenced
A naked man who broke into actor Nicolas Cage's house - and was caught by the actor wearing only his leather jacket - has been ordered to undergo drug rehab. 46-year-old Robert Furo entered the waterfront home near Los Angeles last year, when the Oscar winner was home with his family. The man's lawyer says he was in a stupor caused by sleeping pills.
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