After decades, The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola is bringing his heartfelt project to cinemas. In order for Megalopolis to be released in the USA, the filmmaker now has to finance the marketing himself
Few films are as hotly anticipated as Megalopolis by The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola. He first had the idea for it in 1977 and 47 years later Coppola actually completed the work.
Megalopolis has now also been released in cinemas in the USA, where the studio Lionsgate is distributing it. However, it has now been revealed that the director will have to dig into his own pockets again to handle the marketing
Francis Ford Coppola to pay for US marketing for Megalopolis himself
As the Hollywood Reporter writes in a report on Megalopolis, Lionsgate will not cover the marketing costs for the film. Instead, Coppola is to raise another 15 to 20 million dollars himself to pay for the advertising material. In the USA, Megalopolis is to be shown in over 1500 cinemas. The director also financed the budget for the sci-fi blockbuster himself. It is said to amount to 120 million dollars.
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Megalopolis celebrated its public world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Moviepilot editor-in-chief Jenny Jecke was there and wrote about the sci-fi blockbuster, including:
Megalopolis now feels like a sequel to the Trump years, it’s the awakening to a much darker, disturbing déjà vu. If Project X met Civil War, it would look nothing like a Francis Ford Coppola movie. Nothing looks like Megalopolis. But it’s a small step towards understanding this great movie.
Watch the teaser trailer for Coppola’s Megalopolis here:
