Megalopolis: Last News

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.

Slauson Rec, named after the Slauson Recreation Center in Los Angeles where LaBeouf held his school from 2018 until 2020. Director Leo Lewis O’Neil told Vanity Fair that the film was made from 800 hours of footage, claiming the Transformers star gave him a camera when he joined the class told him to film everything that happened.The Vanity Fair piece said: “O’Neil captured multiple instances of LaBeouf initiating physical altercations, several of which made the final cut of his movie””.

The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, helmed the critically-reviled box office flop Megalopolis earlier this year, a passion project that he financed with his own money.Undeterred, the 85-year-old is already focusing on his next major project, speaking to The Washington Post about how he intends to start production on new film Glimpses Of The Moon in London in the new year.He has described the film as “a strange ‘30s-style musical” and “a very odd confection” that has “strong dance and musical elements”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Megalopolis by director Francis Ford Coppola has said the incident has left her “in shock”.Last week, footage leaked from the making of the film showing Coppola, 85, kissing several extras. In two different video clips, published by Variety, the director is seen hugging and kissing female extras during the making of a dancefloor scene.He is reported to have said over a microphone: “Sorry, if I come up to you and kiss you, just know it’s solely for my pleasure”.Now, one of the women in the clips, Lauren Pagone, has said: “I was in shock.