Filming 1995's "Leaving Las Vegas" with Nicolas Cage was quite the experience, director Mike Figgis told The Times of London.

As Leaving Las Vegas returns three decades on, director Mike Figgis revisits the making of his bruising story of addiction, how he reinvented his career through radical low‑budget filmmaking, and his ...

Mike Figgis has been shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary for the past 18 months about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. It’s called Megadoc. Figgis told me Monday that it’s been ...

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StudioCanal have acquired all media rights worldwide — excluding North America — on 'Megadoc,' following the making of Francis Ford Coppola's polarizing 2024 blockbuster. By Lily Ford StudioCanal are ...

The bills are still due for Leaving Las Vegas, the lauded 1995 film that earned Nicolas Cage his Academy Award and garnered a handful of other nominations, including Best Director for Mike Figgis.

Writer-director Mike Figgis reveals that and much more in an all-new episode of THR Podcast 'It Happened in Hollywood.' By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Nicolas Cage may have won a priceless Oscar ...

Born in northern England and raised for a time in Africa, Mike Figgis grew up inspired by the unconventionality of jazz and Jean-Luc Godard films. As a director, Figgis quickly developed a working ...

In “Megadoc,” Mike Figgis, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of “Leaving Las Vegas,” dishes about the chaotic making of “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola‘s self-produced $120 million experimental epic.

Since his earliest days making films, Francis Ford Coppola has been willing to risk it all — his reputation, perhaps even his sanity and certainly his finances — to make a project come to life. In his ...

Director Mike Figgis could have followed his 1995 breakthrough “Leaving Las Vegas” with more tales of glamorous losers. Instead, he’s pursued an odd mix of experimentation and trend-hopping. “Hotel,” ...