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Lionsgate apologizes to Coppola after trailer fiasco: “We screwed up”
Posted on 8/23/24 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 8/23/24 at 2:15 pm
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Superimposed over title images from the films Apocalypse Now and The Godfather are quotes supposedly written by well-known film critics trashing his previous movies when they came out.
“A sloppy, self-indulgent movie,” reads a quote attributed to Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice.
“Hollow at the core” reads another attributed to Vincent Canby of The New York Times.
“Diminished by its artsiness,” reads another attributed to Pauline Kael of The New Yorker.
However, as first reported in Vulture, all these quotes appear to have been fabricated.
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Online searches of old film reviews came up negative, and some of the critics who are still alive say those aren’t their words. Some suggested the quotes may have been from reviews of entirely different movies or possibly generated by AI.
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After the outcry, Lionsgate immediately recalled the trailer and sent out a statement. “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. We are sorry.”
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Not great for their working relationship, I’d imagine.
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Posted on 8/23/24 at 2:24 pm to Kinderman
Seems like these are the kind of reviews they are expecting and this was their plan to jump out ahead of them
Posted on 8/23/24 at 2:54 pm to Kinderman
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Not great for their working relationship, I’d imagine.
If this movie is anything like the reactions I’ve read, FFC won’t be working after this.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 4:23 pm to Esquire
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If this movie is anything like the reactions I’ve read, FFC won’t be working after this.
He's 85, how much work does he have left?
Posted on 8/23/24 at 4:34 pm to Kinderman
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However, as first reported in Vulture, all these quotes appear to have been fabricated.
LMAO.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 5:07 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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He's 85, how much work does he have left?
Probably not a lot, but Eastwood has directed 5 movies after turning 85, so you never know. Scorsese always says his current film is his last, but he won’t retire either.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 5:18 pm to Esquire
his last 4 movies didnt get distribution. he tried to get financing for this film for 20 years and couldnt. hes been done.
i think his last "big" movie was Jack starring Robin Williams and... Bill Cosby
i think his last "big" movie was Jack starring Robin Williams and... Bill Cosby
Posted on 8/23/24 at 5:24 pm to Esquire
Seem some critics love it some hate it.
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The Guardian gave the film only two stars, saying: “Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboring.”
Vanity Fair‘s Richard Lawson echoed that theme, with the brand noting in its headline: “Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis Is a Passion Project Gone Horribly Wrong”, before continuing, “Maybe some cinephiles will see value in the Godfather director’s long-gestating epic. Many more, though, will be left scratching their heads.”
Tim Grierson of Screen Daily went further, saying on X: “It pains me to say that Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a disaster.”
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Deadline’s Damon Wise praised the movie, calling it a “mad modern masterwork that reinvents the possibilities of cinema”. He said the film is “something of a mess; unruly, exaggerated and drawn to pretension like a moth to a flame. It is also, however, a pretty stunning achievement, the work of a master artist who has taken to Imax like Caravaggio to canvas. It is a true modern masterwork of the kind that outrages with its sheer audacity.”
Joshua Rothkopf of the Los Angeles Times also was warm in his reaction: “I thrilled to Megalopolis in all its overstuffed, crazy ambition. Only an uncharitable viewer would call it a catastrophe. It’s definitely not boring.”
The UK’s Daily Telegraph gave the movie four stars, saying, “Coppola’s latest is like Succession crossed with Batman Forever and a lava lamp…Aubrey Plaza is fantastic in this full-body sensory bath movie which follows a struggle for power among the elites of New Rome.”
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Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri dissected the film’s “absolute madness” and called it the “craziest movie I have ever seen”: “There is nothing in Megalopolis that feels like something out of a “normal” movie. It has its own logic and cadence and vernacular. The characters speak in archaic phrases and words, mixing shards of Shakespeare, Ovid, and at one point straight-up Latin. Some characters speak in rhyme, others just in high-minded prose that feels like maybe it should be in verse.”
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“Halfway through, there’s a very audacious gimmick that tears down the fourth wall in ways younger filmmakers can only dream of.
Coppola breaks many of the cardinal rules of filmmaking in the film’s 138 minutes but it upholds the most important one: it is never, ever boring, and it will inspire just as many artists as the audiences it will alienate.”
Posted on 8/23/24 at 5:29 pm to Kinderman
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Francis Ford Coppola
Dude made 3 great movies. 2 of which were essentially just halves of maybe the greatest movie ever.
But most of his stuff has….been far worse than people think. Will be considered a “great” but I’m not sure he deserves it.
Every time I hear people list him alongside Kubrick I cringe a little
Posted on 8/23/24 at 8:43 pm to Esquire
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If this movie is anything like the reactions I’ve read, FFC won’t be working after this.
He hasn't made a film paid for by Hollywood money since 1997. He financed this himself. Lionsgate supposedly paid very little to distribute Megalopolis.
He'll probably keep doing whatever he feels like doing.
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