Nicholas Cage recently re-listed his 11,800-square-foot Bel Air mansion for just under $30 million. Cage had pulled the 9-bedroom, 9-bath home’s listing in December of last year. It had been for sale for $35 million.

Big Time Listings reports the house came back on the market September 3rd at $29,999,000. It has approximately 1 acre of land according to the listing, a large lot these days for anywhere in Los Angeles. The 1940 mansion features a breakfast area and dining area, den, family and living rooms, an office, and a library/study.

It also includes high ceilings (which we love, except for when it’s time to change a light bulb), a theater, a custom wine cellar, game room, and an Olympic size pool. Hey, maybe Michael Phelps should take a good look at this place.

Cage isn’t the first celebrity to own this amazing property. Dean Martin once owned the place, as did Tom Jones (who had it for over 20 years). But don’t think you can go wonder through the home on a whim, darlings. The listing states it will only be shown to pre-qualified buyers. No lookey-loos allowed.

In July, we mentioned another property that Cage had listed in Las Vegas for $9,950,000. Sounds like Nicholas is clearing out some of his property holdings.

*We seem to have most of our internet issues worked out, so we’ll be back to a regular posting schedule. We’ll even see if we can give you a few bonus shots to make up for missing some days last week.*

The WSJ recently wrote about Nicolas Cage’s property in Las Vegas, on the market for $9,950,000. According to Mr. Big Time, Cage paid $8,500,000 for the home in 2006.

The original listing (which we can’t link to because it’s one of those damn Flash sites - yes, the entire thing; alternate listing is here) puts the house at 14,000 square feet with seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, and a sixteen (yes, that’s one-six) car garage. Room for a large car collection, and a sight more cars than we’ve owned in our entire lives. Yeesh.

The monstrous home is in a gated community (of course) with a tennis court, theatre room, guest quarters, a generator (of all things), and some damn fine Vegas strip views. Oh, and it’s two story so it has an elevator as well.

Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola, and one of the most steady-working actors in Hollywood. A quick glance at his credits shows he has eight films in some stage of production. He’s been in some real stinkers (Honeymoon in Vegas, anyone?), but there are several of his movies we like: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Guarding Tess (we didn’t say we could explain why we like some of them), and Moonstruck. He won an Oscar for his role in Leaving Las Vegas.