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Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway to Star in ‘Paper Tiger’

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James Grey has lined up an A-list forged for his subsequent function Paper Tiger.

Adam Driver, Jeremy Sturdy and Anne Hathaway are set to star within the movie bundle that’s based mostly on an authentic script from Grey. Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s banner Veterans will oversee worldwide gross sales rights subsequent week on the American Movie Market, with CAA Media Finance representing home rights.

Leone Movie Group is absolutely financing the film that Raffaella Leone is producing alongside Rodrigo Teixeira for RT Options.

Principal images is ready to start in early 2025 for the crime movie that facilities on two brothers who get wrapped up in a scheme that’s not fairly what it appears. Their bond is examined as they get embroiled in a world of violence and corruption, discovering themselves within the crosshairs of the Russian “Mafiya.”

Driver is a two-time Oscar-nominated actor who has just lately wrapped manufacturing on the Jim Jarmusch-helmed function Father, Mom, Sister, Brother. His current titles embrace Megalopolis, Ferrari, 65 and White Noise.

Grey most just lately directed the 2022 drama function Armageddon Time that starred Hathaway and Sturdy. He beforehand helmed Advert Astra and The Misplaced Metropolis of Z.

Hathaway was just lately seen in Amazon’s film The Thought of You, and her subsequent initiatives embrace Flowervale Avenue, Mom Mary and Princess Diaries 3. Sturdy, who broke out with Succession, just lately appeared in The Apprentice and can quickly be seen within the Bruce Springsteen biopic Ship Me From Nowhere.

Grey is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen. Driver is repped by MWE and Sloane Provide. Sturdy is repped by WME, Sugar23 and Hansen Jacobson. Hathaway is repped by CAA, Leisure 360 and Sloane Provide.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis Tracking for Anemic $5M Opening

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Francis Ford Coppola‘s ardour venture Megalopolis is monitoring for an anemic home opening within the $5 million-plus vary in opposition to a finances of $120 million earlier than advertising, based on one main Hollywood analysis agency. One other main service thinks it may are available in at between $6 million to $8 million. Both method, that will rank among the many lowest huge launches of the revered filmmaker’s profession, and put the film at risk of incurring main losses.

Lionsgate opens the film in North American theaters on Sept. 27, a number of days after internet hosting a complicated screening on the New York Movie Pageant on Sept. 23 with help from Imax. The screening shall be preceded by a Q&A with Coppola that Imax will beam into 66 of its places throughout the U.S. (The revered filmmaker shot a part of the film with Imax-certified cameras.)

Because of Coppola’s enduring legacy, Megaloplis made its world premiere in competitors on the Cannes Movie Pageant although no main Hollywood studio was prepared to board the venture after the filmmaker hosted a purchaser’s screening previous to Cannes that was attended by nearly each prime studio govt.

In mid-June, Lionsgate introduced it will launch and market the movie in alternate for a distribution payment. (Sources beforehand informed THR that Coppola was on the hook for the advertising spend.)

Hassle has continued to plague the film. The advertising of Megalopolis hit a significant pothole in late August when an preliminary trailer was rapidly pulled by Lionsgate after it was revealed that critics’ quotes cited within the teaser had been incorrect.

Lionsgate launched a brand new trailer Thursday, together with the announcement of the New York Movie Pageant screening and help from Imax. The brand new spot doesn’t characteristic any quotes from reviewers.

“Working with the legendary Francis Ford Coppola has been a whole privilege, and we’re proud to have his groundbreaking movie participate within the 62nd New York Movie Pageant,” Adam Fogelson, chair of the Lionsgate Movement Image Group, mentioned in an announcement Thursday.

Coppola has wished to make the movie for many years, and eventually opted to place a part of his private fortune into the venture, which stars Adam Driver as a person obsessive about making a utopian metropolis. Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza and Giancarlo Esposito additionally star. 

Lionsgate has longstanding ties to Coppola and his American Zeotrope banner, dealing with dwelling leisure rights for plenty of titles, together with Apocalypse Now Ultimate Reduce, The Dialog, The Cotton Membership Encore, Tucker: The Man and His Dream and One From the Coronary heart: Reprise.

Megalopolis may have a footprint in choose Imax places.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis First Look: Adam Driver Stops Time

Adam Driver is an architect who can management time within the first-look clip for Francis Ford Coppola‘s upcoming, self-funded movie, Megalopolis.

Within the more-than-two-minute video, Driver’s Cesar Catilina makes his manner onto the sting of a skyscraper, seemingly contemplating leaping. As he’s about to completely step off the constructing, he shouts “Time cease” and the automobiles beneath him pause at his command, and he leans again onto secure footing.

The movie, which can premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition on Might 17, is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Trendy America, in response to its description.

“The Metropolis of New Rome should change, inflicting battle between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap right into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who stays dedicated to a regressive established order, perpetuating greed, particular pursuits and partisan warfare,” the logline reads. “Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to find what she actually believes humanity deserves.”

Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney and Dustin Hoffman spherical out the solid of the director’s self-funded movie.

Megalopolis | First Look Clip

Coppola first started writing Megalopolis in 1983, and the movie reportedly value $120 million to make, which was funded partly by the sale of a good portion of the director’s wine empire. He hosted a screening of the challenge on the finish of March for potential patrons, with Common’s Donna Langley, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Sony’s Tom Rothman all attending.

Nevertheless, over a month later, the movie remains to be searching for distribution, as a number of of the screening’s attendees informed The Hollywood Reporter that Megalopolis will face an uphill battle. One distributor mentioned, “There’s simply no option to place this film,” whereas one other famous that whereas “everyone seems to be rooting” for the director, “there’s there’s the enterprise facet of issues.”

One studio head even mentioned, “It’s so not good, and it was so unhappy watching it. Anyone who places P&A [prints and advertising] behind it, you’re going to lose cash.”

Nevertheless, not all responses to Megalopolis had been adverse. A specialty label founder shared, “I appreciated it enormously,” including it’s a “very large movie” that “has an actual life. … How do you outline industrial? You take a look at a film like Blade Runner, and it turned a lot extra industrial than on opening weekend.”