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How many people have to be hospitalized before Nic Cage's reign of terror ends? Earlier this morning there was another car crash connected to Times Square set of Sorcerer's Apprentice, where a stunt car chase went dangerously wrong just days ago. This time, however, it was the production team that found themselves in harm's way; filming had just wrapped for the night when a BMW SUV traveling south on 7th Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets crashed into a parked car after swerving to avoid striking a yellow taxi. According to ABC 7, the unoccupied vehicle was then sent hurtling onto the sidewalk, striking as many as eight crew members gathered under the marquee of Mama Mia. Production team member Hameen Rasul tells CBS 2, "The streets shouldn't have been open, we had the streets until 5:30." Eight people were taken to the hospital with "minor injuries" and no charges were filed—though we all know who's really at fault here, and if there's any justice one day he'll have to answer for his crimes. Particularly Bangkok Dangerous. UPDATE: Will it never end? A commenter hips us to a devastating fire at Park Slope's Grace Cleaners while Sorcerer's Apprentice was filming in the neighborhood; although investigators have yet to link Cage to the blaze, one imagines the production's parked trucks may have complicated the firefighters' response.

The two pedestrians struck by an out-of-control Ferrari during a Times Square car chase for the latest Nic Cage abomination The Sorcerer's Apprentice (a live-action adaptation of part of Fantasia) are talking to the press about the incident, and the Post has obtained better video, shot from the sidewalk where the stunt driver crashed into the Sbarro.

Nic Cage's spectacular path of destruction expanded beyond his career last night, nearly costing two innocent bystanders their lives. Around 1 a.m., a car chase through Times Square for Cage's movie The Sorcerer'’s Apprentice became uncomfortably realistic when the driver of one of the vehicles, a black Ferrari, lost control and skidded off Seventh Avenue. One tourist from England told the Post he saw the Ferrari "taking out a lamppost and a news stand. One lady was knocked to the ground and a lamppost landed directly on top of a chap." It quickly crashed to a halt at the Sbarro, as this video shows:

(directed by Billy Ray)

Unlike last week, New Yorkers are treated to just nine new releases including three big titles ( -- about the late Arthur Kane, a member of the seminal NYC glam-meets-punk rock group New York Dolls. Elsewhere …

Read Stephanice Zacharek's review of Super Size Me in Salon (today's Salon ultramercial is for Saved! which looks hysterical, by the way). Check out Eric Schlosser's book, Fast Food Nation, which exposes the scary underbelly of fast food.

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