--- description: At Cannes' film market this year, movies were being touted as Nicolas Cage projects – even when he had no involvement at all title: There were people selling fake Nic Cage movies at Cannes this year image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee3a56d26760b5c7/6986967b06f2c13f2b32f5c1/484181125.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Fake Nicolas Cage Movies Were Shopped Around at Cannes by [Megan Gibson](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 6, 2014 11:10 AM CUT  Nicolas Cage is a guest on "Good Morning America," 4/11/14, airing on the ABC Television Network. Nicolas Cage is a guest on "Good Morning America," 4/11/14, airing on the ABC Television Network.Fred Lee--ABC via Getty Images by [Megan Gibson](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 6, 2014 11:10 AM CUT Nicolas Cage gets around, but maybe not as much as you might think. [_The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-fake-nicolas-cage-movies-709154 "undefined") reveals that at this year’s Cannes film market, the actor was being touted by sales agents as the star in six upcoming films. Problem is, his people say he’s only actually involved with three of the films. Though he’s appeared in some duds over the years, apparently Cage is still a star abroad — foreign distributors are attracted to him, as his name is often used to sell a film. This year, sales agents used his name in order to presell the upcoming films _The Trust_, _Pay the Ghost_ and _The Runner —_ all movies he’s actually signed onto. Yet the films _5 Minutes to Live_, _Red Squad_ and _Dark Highway_ were also touted as Cage projects, even though the actor wasn’t actually involved. Yet the CEO for Hannibal Classics — the distribution company that’s overseeing 5 Minutes to Live and Red Squad — said that the sales pitch wasn’t intentionally misleading. Richard Rionda Del Castro told _THR_ that Cage had been in talks to appear in _Red Squad,_ but “for whatever reason, Nic walked away just before Cannes.” By that time, Del Castro said, it was too late to change the film’s promotional materials. Either way, Cage — and his people — are not flattered by his popularity. “It floods the market with product that’s not necessarily 100 percent real,” Mike Nilon, Cage’s manager, complained to _The Hollywood Reporter_. “If there are six or seven projects being talked about by any actor, then it dilutes the purchase price. If I came to you and said, ‘Would you like a steak dinner?’, you’d probably say yes. If I offered you eight, you’d probably say no.” \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-fake-nicolas-cage-movies-709154 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2837179/fake-nicolas-cage-movies-cannes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2837179/fake-nicolas-cage-movies-cannes/"},"headline":"Fake Nicolas Cage Movies Were Shopped Around at Cannes","datePublished":"2014-06-06T11:10:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:15:34.195Z","description":"At Cannes' film market this year, movies were being touted as Nicolas Cage projects – even when he had no involvement at all","url":"https://time.com/2837179/fake-nicolas-cage-movies-cannes/","keywords":["movies","Cannes Film Festival"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee3a56d26760b5c7/6986967b06f2c13f2b32f5c1/484181125.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltee3a56d26760b5c7/6986967b06f2c13f2b32f5c1/484181125.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ABC's \"Good Morning America\" - 2014","caption":"ABC's \"Good Morning America\" - 2014","creditText":"Fred Lee--ABC via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2837179/fake-nicolas-cage-movies-cannes/","name":"Fake Nicolas Cage Movies Were Shopped Around at Cannes"}}]}] ```