How'd It Get Burned This Week? (Nov. 2, 2009)

Nic Cage headlines in abundance this week.

Zach saw "Knowing" this weekend - full review coming soon. Suffice it to say that this could have been a really good movie if a different leading man had been cast.

Josh Wigler over at MTV Movies Blog tells us about Nic Cage's latest, "The Hungry Rabbit Jumps." Nic plays a vigilante out to avenge "something untoward" done to his wife. Get ready for another angry hot mess from the man with the strangest hairline in Hollywood.

Reuters tells us that stripper-named January Jones of "Mad Men" fame is joining Nic as his wfie in "Hungry Rabbit," marking the beginning of the end for this rising star's career.

Jones's addition to the cast leads Entertainment Weekly to speculate - does Nic Cage have the kavorka? Even though Sean Penn accused the star of defecating on the entire profession of acting (now that may be a tad harsh), Nic's had a bevy of attractive co-stars in his movie, from Penelope Cruz to Jessica Biel. Maybe his plan is to hope that audiences are too busy ogling his lovely leading ladies to notice his forehead and/or total lack of acting ability.

The Examiner reports: Nic Cage says he is financially ruined. In related news, The Top Pop Stop was voted "Most Influential Pop Culture Radio Show" in terms of controlling celebrities' fates.

And Nic told the Montgomery Advertiser all about why vampires are dominating the pop culture scene: "'The vampire is always going to be fascinating. It's like the vig­ilante cop, or it's like the cowboy or the Western. It's part of the fabric of society,' said Cage, who starred in 1989's 'Vampire Kiss' and was one of the producers of 'Shadow of the Vampire' from 2000."

And that's how it got burned this week in Nic Cage news.