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Francis Ford Coppola's highly anticipated film Megalopolis has been generating buzz not only for its ambitious storyline and marketing tactics but also for its star-studded cast Now, Coppola is revealing that fellow filmmaker Martin Scorsese actually played a pivotal role in his decision to cast Adam Driver in the film's lead role. Writer/Director Francis Ford Coppola[...]

The beginning still has the self-aggrandizing "one filmmaker has always been ahead of his time," which still feels so weird considering Francis Ford Coppola is footing the marketing bill for this film, but here we are This trailer is still doing a very poor job of trying to pitch this film to someone who has[...]

We used to have a trailer, but ever since that whole fake quote thing happened, Lionsgate hasn't released a new trailer. Perhaps it's because director Francis Ford Coppola only commissioned so much marketing material, and now they are up the creek without a paddle, but whatever is going on with this film, it continues to be a[...]

It's starting to feel like no one involved with Megalopolis wants this film to make any money, including Francis Ford Coppola, out of some hipster notion that if the movie bombs, that means none of us "get it" and we'll all catch up to its genius eventually A movie like this would always have a hard time finding distribution[...]

Megalopolis has been messy for a while now, and it is just because of the contentious Cannes debut, though that certainly didn't help. The film spent a long time in development hell and had so much trouble finding financing that director Francis Ford Coppola ended up just financing it himself However, once the movie was made, the reactions[...]

Well, that is certainly one way to start the marketing run for Megalopolis. This is also the kind of trailer we get when the filmmaker is in charge of his own marketing instead of the studio because the first minute is Francis Ford Coppola reminding us that all of his classic movies were badly reviewed at the[...]

Lionsgate eventually stepped up, but it very much sounded like director Francis Ford Coppola did not get the deal he wanted Initially, there were reports of a marketing budget in the millions, but we're about a month away from the wide release of this film, and we have just gotten an official poster, and the trailer[...]

He posts "Just finished drawing the last page of MEGALOPOLIS – the graphic novel adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's upcoming movie I have been drawing this book (on and off) since December 2022 so it feel real good to get it finished I need a pint." Photo by Jacob Phillips He continues, "Never saw any footage[...]

Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to make Megalopolis longer than a good portion of us have been alive, this writer included A project that first began its infancy in 1979, everything and anything has gotten in the way of making it a reality Eventually, Coppola did what anyone with enough money and prestige could do: to[...]

Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to make Megalopolis longer than a good portion of us have been alive, this writer included A project that first began its infancy in 1979, everything and anything has gotten in the way of making it a reality Eventually, Coppola did what anyone with enough money and prestige could do: to[...]

Titan Comics has announced a biographic novel of the life and work of movie director Francis Ford Coppola, Don Coppola by Amazing Améziane – creator of the upcoming Quentin Tarantino graphic biography, Quentin by Tarantino, comes volume 2 of his cine trilogy of graphic novels for the 11th of June 2024 The original French edition[...]

There are several auteurs within the filmmaking industry, like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, who scoff at the current state of cinema with the dominance of the superhero tentpole franchises, largely targeting their criticism toward the likes of Marvel and its cinematic universe Elizabeth Olsen, who's one such beneficiary as the MCU's Wanda Maximoff,[...]

Dan Fogler completely embodies enigmatic director Francis Ford Coppola in The Offer, currently streaming on Paramount + The 10-episode event series chronicles the never before revealed behind-the-scenes story of Oscar-winning producer Albert S Ruddy's battles against the Paramount studio, and the mob, to get one of the most beloved films of all time, The Godfather, onto[...]

Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios released a 3-hour-and-43-minute restoration back in 1980, and the British film historian Kevin Brownlow released a 5-and-a-half-hour version with colour tints and the triptych PolyVision restored in 1983 That version has been released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK The new Netflix and CMC restoration will be the most[...]

Francis Ford Coppola surprised the movie world with Mario Puzos The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone This new cut of the third Godfather movie is the "true" ending of The Godfather Saga, though it really ended when The Sopranos came along. Still from "The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone," Paramount Pictures Hollywood gangster[...]

Among her students was Francis Ford Coppola. Arzner died in 1979 at the age of 82 The industry she helped build gave her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame In March 2018, Coppola helped dedicate Paramount's dressing room building after his former mentor She was also featured in the 2000 play "Camera, Woman" and[...]

He likened them to "theme parks" dismissing them as spectacles that don't engage the audience. Credit: G Holland / Shutterstock.com Scorsese Helped Change the Industry Many Scorcese contemporaries came in support like Francis Ford Coppola Others, while respecting Scorsese's opinion, dispute his assertions about their place in cinema The entertainment industry constantly reinvents itself Some movements and genres[...]

Why won't they get off our lawn? And also, what's with their love of superhero movies? Case in point, whippersnapper and Suicide Squad director James Gunn has taken to newfangled social media service Instagram to once again defend Marvel flicks after Francis Ford Coppola joined Martin Scorsese in trashing the genre. Gunn wrote: Many of our grandfathers[...]

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece film Apocalypse Now, we're getting a very special cut of the movie, in a 4K release. The "Final Cut" premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, with Coppola in attendence. IndieWire has a fabulous write up of all the goodies we'll be getting on the 4K release, and rumor[...]

This may be one of our favorite stories actress Winona Rider has ever told, and fans of Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula will no doubt feel the same way. You may recall that in the 1992 lush romantic horror film, Rider plays Mina Harker née Murray, the object of Prince Vlad's attention and beloved of solicitor Jonathan Harker, played by Keanu Reeves[...]

Abrams, Christian Bale, Drew Barrymore, Cate Blanchett, Francis Ford Coppola, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brian de Palma, Laura Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Dreyfuss, Ralph Fiennes, Harrison Ford, David Geffen, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Holly Hunter, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ben Kingsley, Kathleen Kennedy, George Lucas, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey and Robert Zemeckis.   For nearly 50[...]

Credit: American Zeotrope Apocalypse Now the game has been quietly moving along in the crowdfunding phase and today Francis Ford Coppola's American Zeotrope and Erebus are moving the game to a new home for all future crowdfunding efforts. The game is getting a unique crowdfunding platform to replace the previous Kickstarter page When I'd last spoken to some[...]

Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now video game which was announced earlier this week just put up some early prototype footage that shows off iconic scenes from the movie rendered in game graphics While not the most polished of footage, it is a fantastic companion piece to the Kickstarter campaign's main page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ai0Ebklbuc&feature=youtu.beVideo can't be loaded because[...]

Francis Ford Coppola announced today that his film company American Zeotrope will be partnering with director Montgomery Markland, producer Lawrence Liberty, and writer Rob Auten to create a psychological horror RPG based off Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/1937766/video-742886-h264_high.mp4 The game will be created by a "team of AAA developers" including the creators, designers, directors, writers and producers[...]