F rancis Ford Coppola is sitting ina large, library-like space that is right next to the gift-shop area of his Inglenook Winery in Napa, California, behind a usually closed set of doors. The awards, family pictures, and massive collection of vintage zoetropes are all in the lobby. The tasting room, …
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Eddie Egan, a very real marketing consultant, lost his gig with Lionsgate this week after the studio discovered that quotes he used in a trailer for Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis were fabricated, according to Variety. The conceit behind the teaser, which Lionsgate recalled on Wednesday, was that critics had trashed …
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Less than 24 hours after the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s polarizing epic Megalopolis was released, the video was taken down for using fake negative quotes from film critics. In a statement from a Lionsgate spokesperson, perVariety, the company said it was “immediately recalling our trailer for ‘Megalopolis,’” and apologized …
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The Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola, and Bonnie Raitt are among the recipients of the 2024 Kennedy Center Honors, with the artists to be celebrated at a ceremony this December. Jazz artist Arturo Sandoval and legendary Harlem venue the Apollo Theater — receiving a “special Honors as an iconic American …
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Martin Scorsese is recognized as a champion of cinema, a man who’s dedicated his life to preserving the seventh art, the former model for the single most 1970s beard ever and our greatest living American filmmaker. What folks usually forget to mention is that the 81-year-old director is also our …
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Some 45 years ago, the Cannes Film Festival invited Francis Ford Coppola to bring his latest project to the French Riviera for a special “work-in-progress” screening. The movie’s production had already achieved a mythic status as an example of Murphy’s Law made manifest, from last-minute actor replacements to monsoons to …
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After a tantalizing teaser clip that showed Adam Driver precipitously balanced on the edge of a skyscraper, Francis Ford Coppola has dropped an even more tantalizing full teaser for his $120 million self-funded epic, Megalopolis. The trailer opens with a striking image of what might be rockets or asteroids falling …
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A quick question: Do you like The Godfather? How about Goodfellas? Or Gremlins? Or Stop Making Sense, Avatar, Apollo 13, Chinatown, Easy Rider, Paper Moon, Lone Star, or roughly 90 percent of any movies featuring monsters terrorizing pretty ladies from the last 50 years? You have, in so many ways, …
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Adam Driver precipitously balances himself on a ledge of a building in a first look clip from Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. The director shared the anxiety-inducing clip from his long-brewing project on May 4, the date of his late wife Eleanor’s birthday. “Megalopolis has always been a film dedicated to …
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Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has made an Instagram post about the unique way he cast his adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. The movie, which came out in 1983, starred several notable actors — Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, and Ralph Macchio, …
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