Nicolas Cage gives the people what they want in the nutty, Mortal Kombat-esque sci-fi action flick Jiu Jitsu.

We like to keep our finger pretty firmly on the pulse of Nicolas Cage movies, so we would be remiss if we didn’t keep you up to speed on the upcoming sci-fi martial arts action film Jiu Jitsu, starring Cage as a legendary warrior recruiting a team of fighters to repel a prophesied alien invasion. Take a moment to really luxuriate in that last sentence, and then feast your eyes on an exclusive behind-the-scenes video featuring interviews with Cage and director and co-writer Dimitri Logothetis (Kickboxer: Retaliation), and some pretty righteous clips of the film’…

I'm a simple man. If you put Nicolas Cage in a headband, give him a big sword, and have him wax with intense commitment and joy about a portal that's gonna open to our world and spit out killer aliens that we have to fight with martial arts, I'm going to watch the movie that contains it. This particular movie is called Jiu Jitsu, and while the first trailer anchors itself to Cage's wonders in this performance (for the betterment of society), the film offers many more bonkers genre pleasures beyond him. [caption id="attachment_936789" align="…

Martial arts, alien invaders -- and Nicolas Cage?! Yes, you get all three of those in one new action movie, Jiu Jitsu. Check out the exclusive trailer and new poster for the movie, out in theaters and on Digital on Nov. 20.

The actor is working with the same instructor who worked with Keanu Reeves for the John Wick movies!

Robert Pattinson is learning Brazilian jiu-jitsu from Rigan Machado for The Batman, the same trainer who got Keanu Reeves ready for the John Wick films.

From Cocaine to chokeholds, José Padilha has set his next project at Netflix. The Narcos executive producer and director will helm Brazilian jiu-jitsu film Dead or Alive for the streaming giant and co-write the script with Peter Maguire. Padilha will also produce with Greg Silverman and his Stampede banner. Per THR, The period martial arts drama will stretch from 1800s Japan to present day US and Japan in an epic story that tells the tale of Mitsuyo Maeda and Rickson Gracie, "two men from vastly different worlds who developed and spread a mixed martial art that became known …