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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.

self-financed epic “Megalopolis” flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film “The Wild Robot” soared to No. 1 at the weekend box office.“The Wild Robot,” Chris Sanders’ adaptation of Peter Brown’s bestseller, outperformed expectations to launch with $35 million in ticket sales in U.S.

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.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Rainmaker” series adaptation at USA Network has added Wade Briggs in a series regular role, Variety has learned exclusively. Based on the John Grisham novel of the same name, the show was picked up at the basic cabler back in June. Briggs will appear alongside previously announced cast member Milo Callaghan, John Slattery, Madison Iseman, Lana Parrilla, P.J.

EXCLUSIVE: In an interview as crackling with ideas as their new film Megalopolis, director Francis Coppola and Adam Driver discuss the power of films whose meaning changes in the minds of moviegoers in multiple viewings over time. The closest comp to Megalopolis is probably Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Now a classic, that Heart of Darkness adaptation wrapped in the chaotic backdrop of Vietnam, was in its earliest showings considered as much a hot mess of radical ideas and imagery as Megalopolis. Coppola had Megalopolis close to a production start but called it off after 9/11. He continued to shoot second unit footage, including some shots of the smoldering World Trade Center wreckage. He reveals here that some of that imagery made it into Megalopolis for posterity sake, but Coppola said there was nothing that would bring pain to survivors of the worst attack on American soil. Watch them address that and much more — like “the death of journalism and the death of the Hollywood studio system,” as Coppola puts it — in an interview we did at TIFF. Lionsgate releases the film tomorrow.

More family films hitting cinemas this weekend with DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s feature take of Peter Brown’s New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot, however, unlike Paramount/Hasbro’s Transformers One last weekend, this one is mom/female leaning. Opening weekend at 3,900 theaters is pegged at $20M+.

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.

Robert De Niro has hit out at Donald Trump again, saying the former US President “wants to destroy” America.The actor appeared at the New York Film Festival with Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola and Spike Lee at the movie’s premiere last night (September 23).During a Q&A, De Niro drew parallels between the film’s imagined world and America’s election-year anxiety.He said (via Deadline): “I’m worried. I see the things in Francis’ film about that, the parallels and so on. To me, it’s not over until it’s over and we have to go at this wholeheartedly to beat the Republicans – those Republicans, they’re not real Republicans – and beat Trump.

Hollyoaks star Nathalie Emmanuel has shown off her new platinum blonde hair as she walked the Hollywood red carpet, and it’s safe to say, she looked completely different to how viewers will remember her on the British soap.The actress rose to fame on E4’s Hollyoaks where she played Sasha Valentine. But Nathalie was worlds away from the famous Chester village as she mingled with some of Hollywood's finest at the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s controversial new film Megalopolis in New York on Monday (23 September). Nathalie posed in a stunning floor length strapless burgundy dress and showed off her new cropped hairstyle.

Aubrey Plaza had some fun with her fashion on the red carpet at the Megalopolis premiere!

The Megalopolis stars are stepping out to promote their new movie!

Lionsgate has pushed the release date for Mel Gibson‘s anticipated suspense thriller Flight Risk, starring Mark Wahlberg, Topher Grace and Michelle Dockery, to 2025, the studio announced on Friday afternoon.

“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.

EXCLUSIVE: Robyn Cara (Bodkin) has been cast in a series regular role in USA Network‘s The Rainmaker, based on the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Winona Ryder revealed on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that she and Keanu Reeves call each other husband and wife in their text messages, over three decades after they were maybe married for real on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula.” The two actors played Jonathan and Mina Harker in the 1992 gothic horror film, and they revealed during the 2018 press tour for their romantic-comedy “Destination Wedding” that real priests were used during the filming of their “Dracula” wedding scene. So yes, Ryder and Reeves might be husband and wife and they’ve rolled with it ever since. “I would literally do anything though with him.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the world premiere of all 10 episodes of his series The News Years (Los Años Nuevos) at the Venice Film Festival, filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen spoke to Deadline about the Movistar Plus+ drama, which plays in the Official Selection out of competition.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Laurence Fishburne’s latest film “Slingshot” has an ending which he calls “a beautiful surprise.” The film, in theaters now, sees him playing the lead of a three-man crew to one of Saturn’s moons. Fishburne plays Captain Franks. Along with fellow astronauts John (Casey Affleck) and Nash (Tomer Capone), the trio hope to find a new renewable source of energy in an effort to save a dying Earth.

EXCLUSIVE: Leo Woodall (One Day) and Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) have signed on to star in Tuner, a new crime thriller directed by Oscar winner Daniel Roher (Navalny), for which Black Bear is launching sales at TIFF.

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.

Inside Out 2” and “Deadpool & Wolverine,” two enormously expensive vanity projects from renowned directors have awkwardly limped along, provoking groans and shrugs across multiple continents: Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.”What were those bozos thinking? The beloved artists have willingly allowed themselves to become punchlines over pricey boondoggles.Both debacles cost the famous directors as much as $100 million of their own money to make. And they’ve certainly made a splash — in the worst way possible.This week, 85-year-old Coppola released a new movie trailer for his epic “Megalopolis,” a $120 million indulgence about the turbulent rebirth of a city that critics politely despised when it premiered in Cannes.The clip includes quotes from reviews of his past work by the likes of Pauline Kael and John Simon to make the point that Coppola’s movies, like his wine, get better with age.

USA Network‘s The Rainmaker has added P.J. Byrne (Babylon, Wolf of Wallstreet) to its series regular cast alongside John Slattery, Milo Callaghan, Lana Parrilla and Madison Iseman.