The $120 million epic spent months searching in vain for a backer. Lionsgate, a studio with longstanding ties to the legendary filmmaker, is stepping into the breach. But Coppola is still paying part of the tab.
When Lionsgate revealed June 17 it would bring Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million passion project Megalopolis to U.S. theaters, plenty of questions swirled — and not just about whether an actor playing a reporter would show up at screenings to ask questions of Adam Driver’s onscreen character midway through the movie, as happened at Cannes.
More pressingly, folks in Hollywood wondered if the deal called for Lionsgate to put its own skin in the game by paying for any of Megalopolis’ marketing.
The film will also play on some Imax screens, potentially a boon for the project, which is banking on Coppola’s status as one of the great living filmmakers to draw in aficionados.
Coppola famously retains ownership of his movies, which is why he has been able to deliver various cuts of his classics like Apocalypse Now, and he always intended to exercise complete control over Megalopolis.
Lionsgate has a long relationship with Coppola on home releases, and sees the upside of adding one more to the roster.
Throughout his press tour, he maintained his hope that the message of the movie — about an obsessive man pouring himself into a project to build a better world — would live on after him.
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When Lionsgate revealed June 17 it would bring Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million passion project Megalopolis to U.S. theaters, plenty of questions swirled — and not just about whether an actor playing a reporter would show up at screenings to ask questions of Adam Driver’s onscreen character midway through the movie, as happened at Cannes.
More pressingly, folks in Hollywood wondered if the deal called for Lionsgate to put its own skin in the game by paying for any of Megalopolis’ marketing.
The film will also play on some Imax screens, potentially a boon for the project, which is banking on Coppola’s status as one of the great living filmmakers to draw in aficionados.
Coppola famously retains ownership of his movies, which is why he has been able to deliver various cuts of his classics like Apocalypse Now, and he always intended to exercise complete control over Megalopolis.
Lionsgate has a long relationship with Coppola on home releases, and sees the upside of adding one more to the roster.
Throughout his press tour, he maintained his hope that the message of the movie — about an obsessive man pouring himself into a project to build a better world — would live on after him.
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