Megalopolis' Twisty Saga Into Theaters Isn't Quite Over Yet

Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to get Megalopolis into people’s eyes for decades. It’s lone precocious that fate’s gone Coppola’s mode with a theatrical US merchandise successful September (and its eventual carnal release) courtesy of Lionsgate, but if you thought all’s good that ends well, you’d beryllium mistaken.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, the woody betwixt Coppola and Lionsgate lone concerns the movie being enactment onto 1,500 screens, meaning the selling measure falls into Coppola’s lap. Before the workplace came into the picture, it’s said that imaginable selling was a constituent of contention for imaginable distributors aft they watched Megalopolis in March and were reasonably baffled by what they saw. With the selling measure projected to beryllium betwixt $15-$20 million, it’s unclear however the selling volition instrumentality shape. Either way, that’s a hefty tab for the filmmaker and its reportedly troubled (and controversial) accumulation up to this point.

Coppola poured $120 cardinal of his ain wealth into Megalopolis, which is mostly expected to perchance beryllium his last film. Lionsgate’s antecedently handled location releases for his earlier movies, and is besides aiming to furthr enactment this movie connected IMAX screens (which IMAX was already banking connected doing, careless of whether immoderate workplace would administer the film). While successful theaters, screenings volition besides diagnostic a newsman who asks questions to Adam Driver’s onscreen chaacter Cesar midway done the movie “when astatine each possible.”

Given that and the mixed reactions from those who’ve seen it frankincense far, Megalopolis is going to beryllium 1 for the ages erstwhile it comes to theaters connected September 27. Whether it’s bully oregon bad, it’ll surely beryllium 1 of the astir talked astir films of 2024.

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