Cannes Chief Thierry Fremaux Addresses Francis Ford Coppola’s Pending Distribution Deal for ‘Megalopolis’: ‘We Love Improvisation’
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Following the press conference unveiling the Cannes lineup, festival director Thierry Fremaux addressed a few hot topics, including Francis Ford Coppola’s 135-minute epic “Megalopolis,” which doesn’t yet have a distribution deal.
While “Megalopolis,” Coppola’s self-produced $120 million opus starring Adam Driver, has been selected to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, it doesn’t have a distribution deal in France.
In theory, that’s not an issue as there are “quite a lot of films in the official section without any distribution,” as Fremaux tells Variety.
But in the case of “Megalopolis,” it may be a ticking bomb. If “Megalopolis” does get sold to a streamer with no theatrical plans for France, it will spark uproar on the Croisette and within local exhibitors.
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