In Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s polarizing field workplace flop, a futuristic growth is the wild utopic imagining of Adam Driver’s protagonist Cesar Catilina, a controversial urbanist who’s invented a newfangled constructing materials known as Megalon. To conjure the movie’s placing biomorphic cityscape, the director labored with Neri Oxman, a lauded 48-year-old Israeli-American interdisciplinary designer recognized for her follow in “materials ecology.”
Oxman, whose work has been exhibited at MoMA and the Centre Pompidou and who beforehand collaborated with Bjork on a 3D-printed masks that externalized the singer’s musculoskeletal system throughout a efficiency, says on her web site that she drew inspiration for the movie’s utopian citycape from Manhattan’s pre-colonial pastoral previous: “Hills are the stays of skyscrapers and valleys comply with the streets of the town grid.” In Coppola’s film, the alternative-dimension municipality has been renamed New Rome.
Francis Ford Coppola and Neri Oxman on the ‘Megalopolis’ premiere in New York Metropolis.
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Oxman, who didn’t reply to The Hollywood Reporter‘s request to debate her work on the movie, posed with Coppola on the New York Metropolis pink carpet of the Sept. 23 Megalopolis premiere. (Years in the past, paparazzi had staked her out after the famous structure aficionado Brad Pitt came visiting her lab whereas she was a tenured professor at MIT; the photographers thought they could be courting.) She additionally has a quick but pivotal function within the movie as a doctor. “Most of Dr. Shira and the science behind the Megalon left on the chopping room ground,” her husband, billionaire activist investor Invoice Ackman, wrote on social media afterward.
Ackman, a distinguished critic of DEI initiatives and self-styled Large Concepts man, is himself an outsized determine proper out of Coppola’s New Rome. His advocacy marketing campaign to take away Harvard’s then-president over plagiarism allegations ricocheted this yr to Oxman apologizing for quotation errors in her personal PhD dissertation. Earlier, Oxman’s hassle over accepting a donation to her MIT lab from the intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was extended when Ackman’s personal effort to hush up her tutorial boss on the topic turned public.
Whereas it’s unclear when Coppola engaged Oxman on the undertaking, the latest brushes she and her husband had with scandal are unlikely to have bothered the director — maybe the other. He made it clear within the run-up to the Megalopolis launch that he purposely selected to work with individuals on this undertaking who’d been, to his thoughts, “canceled,” noting, “What I didn’t wish to occur is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood manufacturing.”
That was the message Francis Ford Coppola tried to get throughout in a social media submit on Saturday. As his new movie Megalopolis continues to bomb on the field workplace, he praised Todd Phillips for making Joker: Folie à Deux, which is likewise struggling.
The Joker sequel, which is launching in theaters across the globe this weekend, is opening nicely behind expectations after changing into the primary Hollywood comedian e-book pic in historical past to obtain a D Cinemascore. The viewers backlash isn’t an enormous shock, contemplating that the follow-up is a musical, making for an uncommon hybrid that fanboys may not have wished.
Coppola says Phillips’ movies have at all times amazed him and supplied enjoyment. He additionally instructed that moviegoers is probably not prepared for a movie equivalent to Joker: Folie à Deux. “Ever for the reason that fantastic The Hangover, he’s at all times been one step forward of the viewers by no means doing what they count on. Congratulations to Joker: Folie à Deux,” Coppola wrote on Instagram.
That’s solely barely worse than the D+ awarded to Megalopolis when it opened in cinemas final weekend. Coppola’s dystopian epic debuted to a mere $4 million in opposition to a manufacturing funds of $120 million earlier than advertising. No main studio would contact the film, so Coppola raised the funds himself, together with placing up a few of his personal cash. Lionsgate got here aboard on the eleventh hour to distribute the film, which is heading in the right direction to earn lower than $1 million this weekend.
Joker: Folie à Deux — a hybrid antihero pic and a musical that stars Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga — had no bother getting made after Phillips’ Joker grossed $1 billion globally in 2019 and earned quite a few Oscar nominations, in addition to a finest actor win for Phoenix. The primary Joker price $55 million to make earlier than advertising; the sequel price a internet $190 million to $200 million, upping the stakes dramatically.
When Folie à Deux first got here on monitoring three weeks in the past, it seemed like it might open to $70 million. Whereas nonetheless behind the primary movie’s $96 million home opening, it was a good quantity. Nonetheless, as opinions began coming in and the movie was screened for influences, curiosity waned and there was a notable dip in monitoring. Heading into this weekend, the forecast was $50 million to $60 million.
Primarily based on Friday’s opening day gross of $20 million, nevertheless, Folie à Deux appears to be like to open within the low- to mid-$40 million vary (one rival studio even has it within the excessive $30 million vary).
Becoming a member of the D CinemaScore membership isn’t the one factor that Coppola and Phillips have in frequent, because it seems.
Coppola stated in his Instagram submit he’s honored that Joker 2 cinematographer Lawrence Sher has talked about how Coppola’s notorious 1981 musical One From the Coronary heart — a important and business flop, which almost put his Zoetrope studio out of enterprise — supplied inspiration for Folie à Deux. (In recent times, critics have revisited One From the Coronary heart, turning it into one thing of a cult basic.)
Reviewers haven’t been variety to both Megalopolis or Joker 2, which have a 46 % and 33 % critic’s rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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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 CottonMembership Encore, Tucker: The Man and HisDream and One From the Coronary heart:Reprise.
Megalopolis may have a footprint in choose Imax places.
Laurence Fishburne isn’t trying to prime himself on the subject of signing up for sci-fi initiatives like his new film Slingshot.
The Oscar-nominated actor continues to be among the many most in-demand performers in Hollywood and has starred in a variety of options working the gamut in style and scope. Hitting theaters this weekend from Bleecker Road is Slingshot, that includes Fishburne as Captain Franks, who leads a multi-year mission to Saturn’s moon Titan to acquire wanted pure assets. In the meantime, the voyage will get tense as fellow astronaut John (Casey Affleck) begins to lose his sense of actuality. (The plot includes a significant twist that received’t be spoiled right here.)
Chief among the many earlier sci-fi initiatives during which Fishburne has made his mark is, in fact, the Matrix trilogy, along with assorted different titles like Occasion Horizon (1997), Predators (2010) and Passengers (2016). Fishburne’s upcoming releases embody different options that fall into that style, together with Megalopolis, The Astronaut and the animated movie Transformers One. Nevertheless, the actor makes it clear that, moderately than following any agenda, he merely takes initiatives that he can’t get out of his thoughts.
“I’m not fascinated by the opposite issues that I’ve completed within the style,” Fishburne says about what impacts his position choice. “With Slingshot, I used to be simply actually intrigued by the story and really shocked on the twist and the best way that the whole lot resolves itself — or doesn’t resolve itself, relying upon your perspective. It was written in such a manner that I couldn’t work out the place it was going, and that’s very thrilling for me.”
Fishburne praises Slingshot director Mikael Håfström and the remainder of the movie’s workforce for capturing and designing the film in such a manner that the crew’s ship, the place a lot of the motion takes place, feels each expansive and claustrophobic, which provides to the continual pressure.
Laurence Fishburne and Casey Affleck in Slingshot.
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“The ship is deceptively small and huge,” Fishburne quips. “It’s principally a circle, so there are occasions when it appears to be actually large, after which there are these different locations in it the place it’s actually tight and cramped, and you’ll’t flip round with out stepping on any person. A few of that’s the design, a few of that’s the lenses that they used, and there have been parts that got here out and in, so it was actually crafted effectively. It was actually well-thought-out, and so we had the help to only play what was written.”
The movie marks his first venture with Affleck, however Fishburne has admired his co-star’s performances for years. “Large fan of Casey’s work and all the time needed to work with him,” Fishburne says. The jazz aficionado goes on to match Affleck to a sure late trumpeter: “I form of describe [Affleck] because the Chet Baker of performing. He’s actually cool. He’s acquired this nice sense of lyricism, humorousness. He’s acquired an ideal sense of romance. He’s acquired this stunning melancholy, this real intelligence and an ideal vulnerability and sensitivity that I simply actually, actually admire.”
Fishburne, who can be recognized of late for the John Wick trilogy, isn’t any stranger to the superhero style, as he performed Invoice Foster in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp and Each day Planet editor-in-chief Perry White in Zack Snyder’s DC movies Man of Metal and Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice. Fishburne’s model of the editor has confirmed to be indelible, as a number of onscreen portrayals of the character since then painting Perry as a Black man, which isn’t how he was initially envisioned within the Superman comics. (James Gunn’s forthcoming Superman is a part of the pattern, with Wendell Pierce selecting up the mantle.)
“That was stunning,” Fishburne says of this evolution. “Man of Metal is a superb film. If I’ve been influential in any manner by way of that entire nontraditional casting factor, I like it. That’s nice.”
When advised that followers might need been hoping to see his model of Silver Surfer — the character that Fishburne dropped at life in 2007’s Unbelievable 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer — pop up on this summer season’s Deadpool & Wolverine, on condition that various different heroes from twentieth Century Fox’s Marvel motion pictures make appearances, Fishburne lets out a hearty snort. He replies, “Nicely, we’ll see.”
As for the truth that the star has so many motion pictures set for imminent launch, together with Francis Ford Coppola‘s dear debate-spurring epic Megalopolis, Fishburne himself doesn’t fairly know what to make of the timing. (Click on right here for Fishburne’s beforehand revealed remarks from this interview about Megalopolis, together with the movie’s current trailer snafu.)
“It’s bizarre,” he says of his burst of present initiatives. Additionally on the horizon is the Rami Malek-led thriller The Novice, which hits theaters subsequent 12 months, to not point out that Fishburne just lately portrayed former Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers within the FX/Hulu sequence Clipped. “I assume it’s an accumulation of the pandemic after which the strike. I used to be doing little issues after I was allowed to, and all of it simply acquired stacked up. So it’s Slingshot, Transformers, Megalopolis, The Novice, The Astronaut. Clipped got here out again in June. It’s simply loads of stuff.”
Not that he’s complaining, in fact. He displays, “It’s been a gorgeous, stunning profession, and I’m extraordinarily grateful for all of it.”
It’s a Saturday afternoon in February and Spike Lee and Giancarlo Esposito are sitting side-by-side in a golf cart on a studio lot in Los Angeles. The 2, associates for 40 years, have labored collectively many instances over time on such Lee joints as 1988’s Faculty Daze, 1989’s Do the Proper Factor, 1990’s Mo’ Higher Blues and 1992’s Malcolm X. They’re again collectively and collaborating as soon as once more, this time for Fiat on behalf of the Italian automaker’s model new, all-electric Fiat 500e.
Lee directs and stars within the “Italy in America” spot reverse his Emmy-nominated buddy in what marks their first nationwide promoting marketing campaign collectively. Because the story goes, Esposito helps Lee discover his internal Italian as they uncover how their city commute turns into extra “dolce” within the 2024 Fiat 500e. “The all-electric Fiat 500e captures the essence of the Italian life-style. This new marketing campaign brings collectively an iconic duo of numerous heritage, legendary Brooklyn director Spike Lee and actor Giancarlo Esposito, who shares the virtues of his Italian ancestry with Spike to indicate him that La Dolce Vita could be discovered even far past Italy’s borders,” defined Olivier Francois, world chief advertising and marketing officer at Stellantis.
The marketing campaign, launched final week and shot by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique, will embody greater than a dozen artistic components that includes the duo throughout Fiat’s social channels, working by spring and summer time and lengthening into fall. It’s no shock to seek out out that the marketing campaign is essentially unscripted, permitting Lee and Esposito to effortlessly play off each other like longtime associates can. That’s precisely what they do over the course of a 20-minute Zoom interview with The Hollywood Reporter from the entrance seat of that golf cart. Lee and Esposito end one another’s sentences, crack one another up and lob compliments forwards and backwards whereas sharing the story behind the marketing campaign, dishing on their new initiatives — Excessive and Low with Denzel Washington for Lee and Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis for Esposito — and getting critical about the specter of synthetic intelligence going through the world.
Spike Lee and Giancarlo Esposito star in Fiat’s new marketing campaign.
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Seeing the 2 of you collectively on a Saturday afternoon may be very cool …
Lee: We bought historical past. We bought historical past. Good historical past.
How does it really feel to be reunited?
Lee: I really feel nice, what about you?
Esposito: I really feel nice, like one million bucks.
Lee: We’ve seen one another over time, from time to time, however time goes quick. On June 30, it will likely be the thirty fifth anniversary of Do the Proper Factor. Bugging out!
Esposito: Bugging out!
Who got here up with the thought for this collaboration?
Esposito: Effectively, Spike is the person. Spike is the coach. I at all times invite good power, and once we run into one another, it appears like not a day has passed by since we’ve seen one another final. That’s the reality.
Lee: That’s the reality, Ruth.
Esposito: It actually, actually is. When this was talked about to me due to my Italian heritage, my connection to Italy and my love for vehicles, they talked about that Spike Lee was going to direct.
Lee: It is a pure match. While you’re shut, particularly on this business, there is perhaps Spike the love, however there are schedules and delays that stop working collectively once more. However we have now a bond. It’s been introduced that I’m going to do my new movie with [Denzel Washington], the fifth one after Mo’ Higher Blues, Malcolm X, He Obtained Sport, Inside Man. Inside Man was 16 years in the past, however for Denzel and I, it was like yesterday. That’s the identical factor right here with my brother. That artistic bond, that human bond, even if you’re not working collectively otherwise you haven’t seen one another in years, if you do, it’s a giant hug such as you noticed them final evening.
What’s the story of the business?
Esposito: It’s a narrative about Fiat, the 500e electrical automotive that’s redesigned to be actually slick and delightful.
Lee: I noticed it for the primary time in footage, however to see it in actual life, it’s a…[gives a thumbs up].
Esposito: It’s a trick, trick car. It’s actually lovely. It’s a small, good metropolis automotive, and it represents a cultural heritage of Italy, and the colourful nature of the Italian folks. Very, very passionate individuals who love meals, wine, sunshine, music and dance. It’s a cultural illustration of all that’s Italy.
Lee: In the event that they don’t know, inform them your connection to Italy…
Esposito: I’m half Italian. My individuals are from Naples, Italy. I used to be raised in Rome. My mother’s an opera singer. My father labored at Teatro alla Scala, the opera home in Milan.
Lee: Who’s Italian and who’s African?
Esposito: My father’s Italian and my mom is African-American Black.
Lee: The place’d they meet?
Esposito: They met at Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli, it’s a well-known and actually small opera home. I lately went again there, in July, to see the place they meet and I had tears in my eyes. I additionally went to Naples the place I actually bought a way of my heritage.
Lee: Had been you conceived in Naples the very first second that they met?
Esposito: No, quickly after. An excessive amount of data. Mommy and Papa, I really like you. So, I’ve a really robust connection to Italy and I adore it. This [commercial] was a no brainer for me to signify my Italian people who find themselves simply completely unbelievable human beings and really nice with every thing from vehicles to leather-based purses to music. To me, once more, they signify one of the best elements of me.
Spike Lee and Giancarlo Esposito star in Fiat’s new marketing campaign.
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They know easy methods to reside over there. Spike, I do know you grew up in a neighborhood with a whole lot of Italians as nicely. Have you ever spent a whole lot of time in Italy?
Lee: Oh sure. I spent a whole lot of time in Italy, however the Lees, we have been the primary Black household to maneuver right into a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York known as Cobble Hill. It was largely Italian People, proper by the dock. The dock employees purchased properties in Cobble Hill, so we have been the primary. Lots of the stuff you see within the movie Do the Proper Factor, and later in Summer season of Sam, got here from my experiences rising up being the one Black household in an Italian American neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Again to the FIAT: Would you ever personal an electrical car or battery electrical car or do you personal one now?
Esposito: I don’t personal one now, however I might personal an electrical car. It’s good for the planet, it’s good for the environment. I lastly bought into electrical bicycles and I understand how a lot smoother, quieter and extra environment friendly they’re. I might personal an electrical car in a heartbeat.
Lee: Me too.
Esposito: Being in New York, once more, this Fiat is a metropolis automotive that may match into small areas. It’s sensible, it’s environment friendly, and it saves the environment. I’m all for it, and this Fiat 500 is a factor of magnificence.
Spike, we’ve seen you star on digital camera in some iconic commercials over time. Apart from spending time with Giancarlo, how does any person get you to say sure to showing on digital camera in a business today?
Lee: If I just like the product, if I consider within the product, the story. Additionally, if I’m obtainable, too. That’s a giant factor, availability. Lots of these firms have one thing coming down the pike and they should get this stuff shot. However that is an expertise the place every thing lined up. Then to be united with my brother proper right here, G-money, huge brother almighty. I’m bugging out. I imply, it’s nice. When you possibly can work with folks you like, it’s a win.
Esposito: I’m going so as to add one thing to that as a result of though you didn’t ask me, I’m going to inform you why I’m right here…
I used to be going to ask you an identical as a result of, to begin with, seeing you in a single place appears like a present with all you have got happening today. You’re very in demand…
Lee: In demand! In demand!
Esposito: Actually, I really feel blessed to be in demand and I really feel blessed to have the ability to do what I do day-after-day of my life, being on digital camera and creating with nice folks. I’m right here not solely to have the ability to catch up, however I need to work with nice folks. My hit checklist of administrators are Spike Lee…
Lee: I noticed you in Atlanta.
Esposito: Oh yeah, engaged on Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. Popping out quickly.
Lee: I noticed 90 minutes.
Esposito: You probably did! I did ADR the opposite day. He says hey. It’s about integrity. It’s nice if you get an opportunity to work with individuals who have integrity, individuals who aren’t simply doing it for the cash or simply as a result of they’re requested to assist a undertaking that they’ll’t get behind. They’re doing it to create and produce different creators with them. For me, I need to work with one of the best however I additionally need to have enjoyable whereas I’m doing it and have the ability to study one thing within the course of.
Lee: I’m going to leap on and piggyback what my brother mentioned. I’m a tenured professor of movie at NYU graduate movie faculty. I’ve been there 30 years. Ang Lee and Ernest Dickerson have been my classmates. NYU graduate movie faculty is three years and I inform my college students on the primary day of sophistication that if you may make a residing doing what you like, you’re blessed. Nearly all of the inhabitants on God’s earth go to their grave working a job they hate. We’re blessed. We don’t take this shit without any consideration. Excuse my profanity, however I don’t take it without any consideration as a result of it didn’t need to be me. I imply, one step left, one step, proper. You’re off the cliff.
Spike, you talked about reuniting with Denzel in your subsequent movie, Excessive and Low. How did that come collectively?
Lee: When the primary script was written, I used to be not part of the undertaking. However I’ve executed a rewrite although. Denzel was part of the undertaking earlier than me. Denzel was part of Malcolm X earlier than me too. Now we have an amazing historical past. I do know what works for him and what he doesn’t like. [Laughs] If Mr. Denzel Washington doesn’t like one thing, he’ll let you already know. Beneath no unsure phrases, he’ll say, ‘That ain’t working.’
Giancarlo, how was Megalopolis?
Esposito: Actually an unbelievable expertise. One of many highlights of my profession. I labored with Francis again on TheCotton Membership. Working with him on Megalopolis all these years later simply confirmed his imaginative and prescient for the world. It’s a really, very particular movie. I discover him to be a genius. I did some ADR the opposite day.
Lee: I’ve seen greater than him. We have been capturing on the identical stage in Atlanta the place I used to be doing Capital One spots with [Samuel L. Jackson and Charles Barkley], they usually instructed me that they have been capturing close by so I ran over to see them. Francis took over a complete resort. I had a bunch of posters that I requested him to signal, and he did. Then he mentioned, ‘Spike, I’ll present you 10 minutes.’ It was nice, then after 10 minutes, he mentioned, ‘Let’s see 10 extra.’ He ended up displaying me 90 minutes — wonderful.
Esposito: A particular human being at a particular time in his life.
Final query: You talked about turning left or turning proper and teetering off a cliff, that description may apply to the place the business is correct now. There are a whole lot of challenges going through the business, together with AI What’s your tackle the menace that AI posesto the movie business?
Lee: If I may rephrase that query: The hazard that AI may do to cinemas is nothing in comparison with what it may do to the world. It’s greater than cinema. It’s greater than music. I bought to offer it to my brother, Steven Spielberg, who peeped this a few years in the past when his movie A.I. Synthetic Intelligence got here out. I didn’t even know what that was till that film got here out. We’re residing in very harmful instances. It’s greater than cinema.
Esposito: You’ll be able to’t change what’s actual. You’ll be able to’t change the soulfulness of a human being, the soul. You’ll be able to’t change humanity. Machines can strive however I’m sorry…
Lee: It isn’t the identical.
Esposito: We’re going to need to undergo some studying to grasp easy methods to use it correctly in the suitable approach. It’s a testomony to these, like Steven Spielberg, who foresaw this occurring.
Lee: He had a crystal ball on that. What’s up, Steven? You realize you probably did your factor.
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.
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.”
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