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EXCLUSIVE: “Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path,” states Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus to Keanu Reeve’s character in the Lilly Wachowski’s co-penned and co-helmed The Matrix.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola will be the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees announced that Coppola will presented the award — the institution’s highest honor for a career in film — during a gala tribute ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025.

It was ten years ago today, that the first John Wick hit theaters and began to play.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Although the film was a moderate hit taking in $119 million at the worldwide box office, “Transformers One” is now available to stream at home — just in case you missed it in theaters when it released last month. Starting on Tuesday, Oct.

Transformers One, the animated prequel to the hit film series, is out in cinemas now, but what songs are on the soundtrack? Read on for all the info.The latest entry in the franchise based on the Hasbro toy line, the film is set on Cybertron, the home planet of the Transformers, and it depicts the origins of the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron.Directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) and based on a screenplay by Eric Pearson (Black Widow), Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, it features a voice cast that includes Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm.Transformers One is a standalone film, separate from the saga that began with Michael Bay’s 2007 original film. Bay directed four further entries in the series.

Transformers One, the animated origins movie based on the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron, is the most popular film in the franchise ever among fans.Directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) and based on a screenplay by Eric Pearson (Black Widow), Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, it features a voice cast that includes Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm.Transformers One is a standalone film, separate from the saga that began with Michael Bay’s 2007 original film. Bay directed four further entries in the series.

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.

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.

Jordan Moreau There’s more than meets the eye at the box office this weekend. Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment’s “Transformers One,” the franchise’s first fully animated film since 1986, has made $3.36 million in Thursday previews at the box office. The family-friendly film, directed by Josh Cooley (“Toy Story 4”), is expected to make between $30 million and $40 million in its opening weekend, enough to take down Warner Bros.’ “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and claim the box office crown.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Will Optimus Prime and Megatron be able to scare off the Ghost With the Most? Paramount’s animated “Transformers One,” an origin story about the feuding Autobots and Decepticons, is targeting $30 million to $40 million in its opening weekend. Based on those projections, it’ll easily dethrone the two-time champion, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” The spooky Warner Bros. sequel is looking to add roughly $25 million in its third weekend of release.

Refresh for more…Paramount Animation and Hasbro Entertainment‘s Transformers One, the first animated Transformers movie in close to forty years, looks to liven up the mid-September box office with a domestic start in the low $30Ms with potential for upside.

EXCLUSIVE: When Francis Ford Coppola sits for a conversation about his new film Megalopolis before it plays the New York Film Festival on Monday, September 23, the master filmmaker will be interrogated by two Gotham film fixtures. That will be Robert De Niro, whom Coppola directed to his first Academy Award in The Godfather Part II, and Spike Lee, a lifelong admirer of Coppola who was among the first to see 30 minutes of Megalopolis.

Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry are keeping busy promoting their new movie Transformers One in Sydney, Australia.

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

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.

A pair of moderate releases with a handful of docs and titles in limited release topline an end-of-summer specialty market. Labor Day weekend can be slow and indie openings are up against few new wide releases (Afraid, Reagan) and holdovers from Deadpool & Wolverine to Inside Out 2. Meanwhile, the Venice film festival with Telluride, and TIFF soon is generating indie headlines and the new crop of arthouse films.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Francis Ford Coppola told Rolling Stone that his intention with “Megalopolis” was to make a movie that could not be deemed “some woke Hollywood production.” The cast includes controversial actors such as Jon Voight, who has turned heads in Hollywood for his conservative views and outspoken support for Donald Trump, and Shia LaBeouf, who was accused of sexual assault in 2021. “What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,” Coppola said. “The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another.

Megalopolis, after it was revealed to feature fabricated quotes from film critics.The trailer begins with a voiceover narration from cast member Laurence Fishburne, who says: “True genius is often misunderstood.”A procession of film review quotes then begin to flash on the screen, offering harsh critiques of Coppola’s past films.“A sloppy, self-indulgent movie,” reads an early review of The Godfather, while another critic declares Apocalypse Now “a spectacular failure”.However, as pointed out by Vulture‘s Bilge Ebiri, most of these lines did not exist in the original reviews.Having been called out for the misleading quotes, Lionsgate has since pulled the trailer and issued an apology.“Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis,” it said. “We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process.”“We screwed up.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic This week, Lionsgate released — and then promptly recalled — an audacious trailer for “Megalopolis,” an ugly yet undeniably ambitious late-career monstrosity from Francis Ford Coppola. Normally, trailers come padded with hyperbolic quotes from less-than-credible critics — “quote whores,” we call them — plucked out of context and punched up with exclamation marks (a form of punctuation seldom if ever used by critics in print, but ubiquitous in movie advertising).

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

The first full length trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has arrived.