Nicolas Cage was swindled out of Leaving Las Vegas wage

Nicolas Cage might have received an Academy Award for Leaving Las Vegas, however that doesn’t imply he was paid. Director Mike Figgis has come clear that neither him nor Cage got their $100,000 wage for the 1995 film.

On a current episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s “It Occurred in Hollywood” podcast, Figgis–who was additionally nominated for Greatest Director and Greatest Tailored Screenplay that 12 months for Leaving Las Vegas–defined that the studio, Lumiere Photos, informed each him and Cage that for the reason that film didn’t flip a revenue, they didn’t earn their wage. Nonetheless, it made slightly below $50 million on an estimated $4 million price range. Now we right here at JoBlo are not any mathematicians, however…

Nonetheless, Mike Figgis doesn’t appear all that miffed concerning the shortchange. “I imply, my profession then took off once more, and the following movie I did, I acquired very well paid. And inside a 12 months [Nicolas Cage] was incomes $20 million a movie, in order that was fairly good.”

One thing tells us Nicolas Cage might not precisely miss that Leaving Las Vegas cash. Quickly after profitable the Oscar, Cage’s profession blew up over again, starring in blockbusters like The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off and with the ability to afford such luxuries as dozens of vehicles, Motion Comics #1 (which he later bought for over $2 million) and a dinosaur cranium (OK, he needed to return that as a result of it was stolen however it nonetheless price him 1 / 4 million {dollars}).

Lumiere Photos later had its library bought by StudioCanal.

Nicolas Cage earned his first and to date solely Academy Award for Leaving Las Vegas, which additionally earned a nomination for Elisabeth Shue. Within the movie, Cage performs an alcoholic author who heads to Sin Metropolis to drink himself to demise. Spoiler alert, however he’s fairly profitable at it!