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Megalopolis at the 2025 Razzie Awards.The $120 million film, which was self-funded by Coppola, was nominated for six Razzies in total, including Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay.Taking to Instagram, Coppola ironically state it was an “honour” to receive the Worst Director award, before hitting out at the industry for being “terrified” of taking risks.“I am thrilled to accept the Razzie award in so many important categories for @megalopolisfilm, and for the distinctive honor of being nominated as the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst picture at a time when so few have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking!” the director began the post.“In this wreck of a world today, where ART is given scores as if it were professional wrestling, I chose to NOT follow the gutless rules laid down by an industry so terrified of risk that despite the enormous pool of young talent at its disposal, may not create pictures that will be relevant and alive 50 years from now.”He added: “What an honor to stand alongside a great and courageous filmmaker like Jacques Tati who impoverished himself completely to make one of cinema’s most beloved failures, PLAYTIME! My sincere thanks to all my brilliant colleagues who joined me to make our work of art, MEGALOPOLIS, and let us remind ourselves us that box-office is only about money, and like war, stupidity and politics has no true place in our future.” Megalopolis was universally torn apart by critics and majorly flopped at the box office, earning just $12 million globally.The film stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, a genius architect with the power to control time.

Megalopolis is having a rough ride at the cinema box office, with people online labelling it ‘Megaflopolis’.The film was released in cinemas on Friday (September 27), and is set in an alternate present-day version of America, where Driver’s futuristic architect Cesar Catilina, who has the ability to pause time, is clashing with the conservative mayor of New Rome, Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito).It has been met with less-than-enthusiastic reviews and received a somewhat hostile premiere at Cannes. In NME’s two-star review of Megalopolis, Lou Thomas wrote: “The whole piece is so uneven, that at times it’s akin to watching a toddler being given free rein as an interior decorator.

The Post called the “best family film of the year” — landed at the top of the box office, raking in $11.32 million, according to The Numbers.The DreamWorks production, which is based on the book series of the same name, features the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Catherine O’Hara and Mark Hamill.It already made history as the third best opening for an animated movie in September, according to Deadline. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” remained in second place this Friday, its fourth in theaters, with sales of $4.2 million.

Megalopolis is in cinemas now, but is Adam Driver’s character’s vision of utopia intact at the end of the film?The sci-fi drama was released in cinemas on Friday (September 27), and is set in an alternate present-day version of America, where Driver’s futuristic architect Cesar Catilina, who has the ability to pause time, is clashing with the conservative mayor of New Rome, Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito).The film also stars Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire and Jason Schwartzmann, and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.Megalopolis has been a passion project for the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now since the early 1980s, but has continually been faced with financial challenges. With major studios hesitant to invest, Coppola eventually chose to fund the film himself, selling personal assets, including portions of his wine empire.The project has been riddled with controversies, with an extra from the film saying she was left “in shock” after being kissed by Coppola on the set, and a trailer that included fake quotes from critics leading to a marketing consultant being fired.It has also been met with mixed reviews, including a somewhat hostile reaction at Cannes.

Adam Driver has lamented modern films that “leave nothing for you to discover.”The pair spoke to Deadlineahead of the release of new film Megalopolis, which arrives in cinemas today (September 27).The film stars Driver as Cesar Catilina, an architect-scientist who wants to improve a fictional version of New York City called New Rome. Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia Labeouf, and Giancarlo Esposito, among others also star.In the interview, Driver praised Coppola calling him the “principle of show not tell” and lamented films that “leave nothing for you to discover” – ones that tell you all the details of “the plot” and “how to feel.” He added: “Those are not the movies I’m attracted to historically.”Speaking about films like Coppola’s he added: “They’re one version when they come out and years later because you evolve or the world around has evolved and its something completely different and they keep giving you things.

the likely final movie from the genius director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” versus the obvious reality that his new film is a catastrophe.As with every awful movie that wobbles on the stilts of good intentions, you can guess what wins. “Megalopolis,” for all its high-minded ideals, is impossible to like.

Megalopolis.The film stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an architect-scientist who wants to improve a fictional version of New York City called New Rome. Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia Labeouf, and Giancarlo Esposito, among others also star.But during filming, the likes of Driver were absent from the start due to commitments on other projects.“I had this extraordinary cast, but a lot of them couldn’t be there from the very beginning, so I couldn’t rehearse with them,” Coppola told IndieWire.

“Don’t let the now destroy the forever,” Adam Driver says in the new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious, epic dystopian sci-fi drama “Megalopolis.” And he might as well be talking about all the drama surrounding Coppola’s film. The movie released by Lionsgate was recently slammed and at the center of controversy when it used fake quotes about Coppola’s previous films like “Apocalypse Now.” All of the filmmaker’s ‘70s works are heralded as stone-cold classics, and the trailer’s quote was meant to demonstrate how all the critics were dead wrong about them at the time—an allusion to the mixed reviews of “Megalopolis.” One small problem: all those quotes were fabricated, and some eagle-eyed critics and reviewers quickly called them out, and Lionsgate had to take the trailer down.

Megalopolis trailer, which featured fake critic quotes, has resulted in Lionsgate firing the marketing consultant behind it.A Variety report on Friday (August 23) claims that the quotes were the result of the work of Eddie Egan, a marketing consultant. Sources tell Variety that it was neither Lionsgate nor Egan’s intention to fabricate the quotes, but that it was simply “an error in properly vetting and fact-checking”.Variety also demonstrates in its report that not only are the quotes fake, but that they are likely AI generated.

commented on X, formerly Twitter. “Why are they making up quotes to get mad about in the Megalopolis trailer?” another baffled viewer wrote. “All the ‘mean’ critics’ quotes in the MEGALOPOLIS trailer were made up and likely came from an erroneous ChatGPT answer.

Lionsgate is speaking out after removing the trailer for the forthcoming movie Megalopolis.

Megalopolis has been released – with an audacious marketing angle, to say the least. Watch it below.Shared today (August 21), the trailer features a closer look at the high-wire stakes of the film, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival last May to mixed reviews.

Unlike his fellow ‘70s movie brats Martin Scorcese and Steven Spielberg, it’s been many years since Frances Ford Coppola has had a definitive hit in Hollywood. He’s yet to achieve a kind of career resurgence ala Scorcese, and has struggled to produce consistent, quality work like Spielberg.

“Hold On To Me Darling” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.The show, about a fictional country singer named Strings McCrane who moves home to Tennessee after learning of his mother’s untimely passing, will run until Dec. 22.As of now, the rest of the small ensemble is yet to be announced.

reported last June that Tony-winning “Shucked” actor Alex Newell strolled in at 6 a.m.“It was already ‘Last call.’ The hotel venue was officially shutting. And in flounces Alex,” Cindy wrote.Unhinged glamor is the vibe of the gathering, hosted by PR man Rick Miramontez and his husband, Jamie DuMont, since 2009, when it was a more intimate (and secret) affair in the Royal Suite with the ragtag hippies of “Hair.” Their 15-year-old soiree, which is also co-hosted by John Gore, was inspired by the wild dinners Joan Didion and her husband would throw in Malibu, Calif., during the 1960s and ’70s, when they’d make 2 a.m.

Aubrey Plaza has addressed the negative speculation surrounding Francis Ford Coppola’s forthcoming dystopian drama, Megalopolis.The Godfather director struggled to get funding for the film, which has cost $120m (£96m), taken decades to make, and still not found a distributor. There have also been numerous speculative reports regarding Coppola’s behaviour on the set of the film.The film itself received a mixed reaction at is Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday (May 16), even drawing boos from some members of the audience.Of the noise surrounding the film and its production, Plaza, who plays journalist Wow Platinum in the movie alongside Adam Driver and Shia LaBeouf, told Deadline: “I thought it was kind of funny.“I would defend Francis all day long, but he doesn’t need my defence,” she said.

Francis Ford Coppola’s 140-minute dystopian drama Megalopolis received a mixed reaction at its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday (May 16), with some members of the audience initially booing.The Godfather director’s new, self-financed film stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an architect-scientist who wants to improve a fictional version of New York City called New Rome.Audience members reportedly started booing after the film ended. However, according to World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy, the boos soon turned to cheers when an “In Memoriam” segment proceeded to play for Coppola’s late wife Eleanor. The director and cast then received a seven-minute standing ovation.“Thank you all so much.

Megalopolis, without ever getting round to filming any scenes.The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director is preparing for the world premiere of the film at the Cannes Film Festival this week (May 17), but a new report suggests that many on the film’s crew were left frustrated and confused by his unconventional filmmaking techniques.Speaking anonymously to the Guardian, one crew member explained: “He would often show up in the mornings before these big sequences and because no plan had been put in place, and because he wouldn’t allow his collaborators to put a plan in place, he would often just sit in his trailer for hours on end, wouldn’t talk to anybody, was often smoking marijuana … And hours and hours would go by without anything being filmed.”“And the crew and the cast would all stand around and wait. And then he’d come out and whip up something that didn’t make sense, and that didn’t follow anything anybody had spoken about or anything that was on the page, and we’d all just go along with it, trying to make the best out of it.

Adam Driver plays an architect with the power to control time in the first trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited new film Megalopolis. Watch the clip below.The two-minute teaser shows Driver’s character Cesar Catilina teetering on the roof of a skyscraper.

Adam Driver is fired up about criticisms of his recent role choices. On an episode of the “SmartLess” podcast, the actor defended playing famous Italian figures in both of his last two movies, “House of Gucci” and “Ferrari.” “So many people have been like, ‘How many Italians… ?’.

Adam Driver has had enough of journalists asking him why he’s played two Italian roles in quick succession on the press tour for Ferrari.The actor made an appearance on the SmartLess podcast with Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes on Monday (January 1), where the subject of him playing two Italian men in two recent movies came up. Driver played Maurizio Gucci in 2021’s House Of Gucci and Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann’s biopic Ferrari.Speaking about how he hasn’t been very strategic in his acting career so far, Driver joked that the decision to play the two roles in quick succession was a “good example of not being strategic in a way that I probably should”.“So many people have been like, ‘How many Italians…?’ I’m like, it’s just kind of worked out that way,” Driver said, noting that someone on his PR team should have warned him it would “come up a lot” on the Ferrari press tour.“But I’m like, you know, it’s Ridley [Scott] and it’s Michael [Mann] and they’re in my mind some of the best filmmakers,” he said.