Jun 11 2009 Nicolas Cage Clears Some Things Up

Nicolas Cage, on his behavior on the set of The Sorcerer's Apprentice:

I did not hire a voodoo priestess to break a hex.

So there you go.

(From MTV.)

May 5 2009 Nicolas Cage Film Takes Out an Institution

Disaster on the set of The Sorcerer's Apprentice! While shooting a car chase sequence in Times Square yesterday, a stuntman in a Ferrari lost control and crashed into the front of a Sbarro's, injuring two and temporarily shutting down the one place in the city to get a genuine New York slice:

A movie chase scene got too realistic early today when a car jumped a curb during a film shoot and smashed into the entrance of a Times Square restaurant, injuring two people, police and witnesses said.

The action scene gone awry unfolded at the Sbarro at 47th Street and Seventh Avenue shortly before 1 a.m.

Street closing notices posted by the police indicated the shoot was for the Nicolas Cage film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."

(via Digg)

Oh, good, Jerry Bruckheimer and National Treasure-director Jon Turteltaub managed to squeeze a high-speed Ferrari chase into The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Sounds like they might have slightly tweaked the original 1797 Goethe poem. Who would have thought?

Well, regardless, let's hope no one else gets injured during shooting. They still have to shoot the big scene where the apprentice fires a rocket launcher while hanging one-handed off the wing of a Harrier.

Crash video below the cut.

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Mar 27 2009 See the Magic in Nicolas Cage: Sorcerer

JustJared has posted the first shots of Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel on the set of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a live-action take on the poem most famously portrayed in Fantasia.

I think it's obvious enough what they're going for here:

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