Synopsis
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Nicolas Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a super fan. When things take a wildly dangerous turn, Cage is forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones. With a career built for this very moment, the Academy Award-winning actor must take on the role of a lifetime; Himself.
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Movie Details
| Production Budget: | $30,000,000 |
| Dominican Republic Releases: |
April 21st, 2022 (Wide), released as El Peso Del Talento |
| Video Release: |
June 7th, 2022 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment |
| MPAA Rating: |
R for language throughout, some sexual references, drug use and violence.
(Rating bulletin 2726 (cert #53321), 4/6/2022) |
| Keywords: |
Action Comedy, Fictionalized Version of Yourself, Same Actor, Multiple Roles |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Action |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
Lionsgate, Burr! Productions, Saturn Films |
| Production Countries: |
United States |
| Languages: |
English |
April 14th, 2023
No less that six new wide releases arrive in theaters this weekend, the most of the post-pandemic era, beating the five wide releases that arrived the weekend of September 16 last year. None of them will come close to beating The Super Mario Bros. Movie in its second weekend. The battle for second place looks interesting though…
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April 22nd, 2022
It’s a busy weekend at the box office, with three new wide releases already reporting Thursday preview results and headed for the top 10, plus the return of two films that grossed over $70 million between them last weekend, and the continued expansion of indie breakout Everything Everywhere All at Once. Going into the weekend, our model thought The Bad Guys should come out on top, and it looks on track to do so. The good news is that all three newcomers are outperforming the model’s expectations so far.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2022/04/22 |
- |
$2,044 |
|
10 |
$204 |
$2,044 |
1 |
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