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The Latest Breaking News from Megalopolis

Strapped for cash: why Francis Ford Coppola is flogging his watches

Megalopolis’s grand self-funded folly has left the director at least $85m out of pocket, so he needs a helping hand

The Guardian - UK

Megalopolis Is a Mega Mess

Francis Ford Coppola's clumsy passion project is an ambitious misfire.

Reason

Megalopolis team issues an apology as negative review quotes in the sci-fi's new trailer turn out to be fake

"We screwed up. We are sorry"

Total Film

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Are The Godfather review quotes in Megalopolis trailer fake? Apparently yes

The Megalopolis trailer came under fire after the apparent use if fake critics' quotes about The Godfather and other Francis Ford Coppola movies.

WhatToWatch

Francis Ford Coppola seen kissing Megalopolis extras in newly surfaced footage

Director Coppola has been accused of inappropriate on-set behavior while filming his self-funded passion project

The Independent UK

Megalopolis release date, news, and everything we know about The Godfather director's divisive new movie

The film has split critics

Total Film

The Most Ambitious Sci-Fi Movie of the Century Is a Beautiful Disaster

Forty years in the making, 'Megalopolis' is an ambitious sci-fi epic that is both everything we feared it would be and everything we hoped it would be.

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Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis earns 10-minute ovation at Cannes despite awful reviews

Adam Driver and cast join 85-year-old director who finally realises long-gestating passion project

Evening Standard

‘Bafflingly shallow’ or ‘staggeringly ambitious’? Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis splits critics

Coppola’s passion project screens at Cannes film festival to seven-minute standing ovation, but reviews have been polarising

The Guardian - AU

‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods

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