>The self-funded epic is deemed too “experimental” and “not good” enough for the $100 million marketing spend envisioned by the legendary director.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/megalopolis-francis-ford-coppola-challenges-distribution-1235867556/
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What kind of turd is it that even a cast list like this won't sell it?
All you need to do to promote this is get D. B. Sweeney on Colbert
Megadoodoo?
shia labeouf would be a nonstarter for me if i owned a distribution company. everything about him oozes "box office poison" and "artistic and financial failure"
Shia and Mia are a weird couple. He never made good movie. She's delivering kino after kino
>Shia and Mia are a weird couple. He never made good movie. She's delivering kino after kino
They split up in 2018 and got back together in 2022 just she was getting her massive breakout. Definitely weird, she should have dropped him like a hot potato and found a better man.
Built for BBC.
It is a bizarre cast. It has me more interested to see it, just to see how they perform together.
he should have just casted randoms, the film probably would have been far more successful if he did, so many people on this list who have careers that are tanked and over
>Nathalie Emmanuel gets BLEACHED by Adam Driver
my wife would watch this
I'm gonna be honest this cast list isn't really that impressive in 2024.
Adam Driver is over-saturated at this point and people are sick of him.
Who even the frick are the other two people.
Jon Voight's been cancelled for being a right-wing nut.
Fishburne is honestly not a good actor at all also he's fat now.
Aubrey Plaza is known for one thing only and it's Parks and Rec which was from like 20 years ago at this point.
Shia is medically insane and box office poison.
Schwartzman is reddit tier.
Dustin Hoffman is senile no doubt.
And who the frick is everyone else.
Kino confirmed. They know midwits wouldn't enjoy it. It's going to be a love letter to cinema, but most movie goers don't care about cinema as an art.
you forgot to add: as a filmmaker myself, I appreciate what Francis is trying to do here.
as a shitposter myself, I appreciate what Francis is trying to do here.
he fricking lost it decades ago and became completely out of touch. It's obvious it will be one of those movies that looked great in his head and only there. If he were smart enough he would realize this long time ago but his big ego prevents him from seeing that. He could easily hire some kino screenwriter with good record to help him cowrite the script. He could surround himself with producers that woud keep him in check and so on. But that's not the case here. This movie will simply be a moronic mess and you can tell that from the script alone. He doesn't even have that Scorsese power of confidence where he could just release complete shit (like scorsese's last three movies) and everyone will act like they are masterpieces because they are afraid they will look like plebs for saying they didn't like them. Imagine trading awesome winery for this kek, lmao even
btw i will remind you of this post when the movie releases and you will see i'm right
>He could easily waste money on hiring Hollywood nepo morons to make sure the film is acceptably bland hollywood slop. But that's not the case here.
Since when has Coppola been this based?
but that's not what i said or meant. You will understand when you see the movie
The studios know it will be PURE COPPOLA KINO and will make them look like talentless buttholes by comparison. That’s why they don’t want it to see the light of day
This. The last thing they want is a completely independent film made by an actual director with artistic vision dabbing on their nonstop parade of goyslop. They want it to fail so they can say "see, this is why you don't go outside the studio system." The knives have been out for this thing since before it was even being filmed
you've never seen scorsese's last three films
i've seen about 40min of each before dropping. There's a mass delusion surrounding those movies. Almost no one can admit how shit they are. Just compare them to departed or wolf of wall street for example. Literally just watch them, one a day, and then you will see. The decline is ridiculous. Scorsese probably has undiagnosed dementia and i'm not saying this as an insult. Those movies are so insanely dumbed down, lifeless and apathetic that i can only explain this by illness
you haven't seen them at all. you can keep lying to yourself because you're not lying to me
i dare you to try this. You will need five days for that. But i already know you won't do this. You're afraid i might be right
Ah yes, The Departed and The Wolf of Wallstreet. The best Scorsese has to offer.
How many have you seen by him?
>for example
>How many have you seen by him?
almost everything. And most of my ratings are either 9/10 or 10/10
The Irishman is a great movie outside of De Niro being too old to play Frank Sheeran
>Imagine trading awesome winery for this
Bruh the dude will probably be dead in less than ten years. What was he gonna do with the winery, be buried there? I'm sure he enjoyed owning it but in the end he decided he'd rather make one last film with no budget constraints instead. Selling something you like to buy something you want even more isn't tragic
Megaflopolis
one
last
ride
Probably not woke enough.
Woke?
>have artistic vision for magnum opus
>studios think it's too avant-garde and refuse to fund it
>sell all your assets to fund it yourself
>toil over making it for years
>eventually finish it
>distributors think it's too arthouse to spend the required money needed for advertising
lmao
Life is suffering. Unironically, this is the plight of the no budget filmmaker too. You put in so much effort to make the film just to discover a billion hidden costs in post
>a billion hidden costs in post
>marketing
lol no wonder you have to film on no budget, you're literally, legally and actually moronic
It'll get released somehow, even if he goes bankrupt and it gets picked up by some streaming service. Either way it's a pretty fun story, will probably become a cult film if it's even halfway decent.
I'm surprised netflix haven't offered him the film's entire production budget + like $20m or something for distribution rights.
Maybe they've finally stopped spending so much on directors' vanity projects?
Think about what the target audience for Megalopolis is: cinephiles.
Cinephiles don't use Netflix, they collect physical or pirate.
Netflix happily funded The Other Side of the Wind. They also produced films like Blonde and Roma.
But yeah, it's all a cost-return equation.
Coppola is probably too out of touch to play ball.
good movies don't need to be marketed
It figures this was always going to be a hard sell.
>It figures this was always going to be a hard sell.
absolutely not if it was good
>From the Legendary director of GodFather
>Comes high budget le epic kino
and then you show the flashiest scenes from the movie. It would've been easy to market but they know the movie is shit and word of mouth will kill it instantly
>adam driver
Not watching. Ever.
just self-distribute
>Adam Driver
>twinky
Do you just randomly use words without knowing what they mean?
Why does this movie need marketing anyway? Movies like this are sold on prestige alone, like Miyazaki’s last movie that had no marketing. If it’s good word of mouth should be enough and all pseuds and critics will be praising it because it’s a Coppola flick. I guess it must be really fricking trash if it needs 100 million for marketing.
>like Miyazaki’s last movie that had no marketing
sauce?
There wasn't a trailer before release
i asked for sauce about your claim. Can you provide one?
Sauce: look it up
In Japan, Boy and the Heron only had one poster with a concept sketch of the birdman and no trailers.
Well we had trailers for that piece of shit stateside
>and critics will be praising it because it’s a Coppola flick.
yeah, like his last movie Twixt-ACK!
This film sounds too high IQ for the average brown Amerimutt. White liberals screwed themselves over with their love of the third world. Embracing the global south killed high culture.
A24 put out Beau Is Afraid. I'm sure they can distro Megalopolis.
Not for a 100m marketing budget.
>Hollywood can't scrap together the $$$ to market an artistic film made by the greatest living director
>Hollywood has bottomless pockets to market Fast & Furious 12 familia mutt favela boogaloo
one is a very popular movie franchise that made shitton of money. The other is a movie that has almost 100% chance of flopping like a motherfricker
Wait, the movie is done and all and now they need money for MARKETING?
Frick him and frick anyone involved and especially frick marketers. They shouldn't get A SINGLE CENT.
did you just discover that marketing for movies exists?
No, but I always assumed that the marketing budget was considered from the very start of the production.
They usually are, but that's part of a deal with studios and distribution. In order to get that, you need their green light, if not, then you are on your own, which is where he is at. He could move some of his own money to marketing early on, but apparently he bets on distribution deal now that the film is ready. It might be audacious but not unreasonable, it is much easier for them to see if it is worth it for them or not now that they can see the product.
depends on the movie and studio
Marvel shit, for example, usually had an equal budget for production and for marketing.
If you have $10m and want to use it to make a film (and for the sake of argument let's assume you don't get to keep anything you don't spend), do you
>a. spend $10m on making a film?
>b. spend $5m on making a film and save $5 for marketing that film?
>c. spend $9m (or some other variation) making a film and leave the small leftover for additional expenses that might arise, including marketing?
HINT if you pick b. then you're not a filmmaker
let's not forget the last pile of shit Coppola made. The man lost his mind a long time ago.
redpill me on what is happening there
What
Meanwhile, Nicolas Kim Coppola has managed to dig himself out of a two digit million debt with nothing but WORK and will be buried in a pyramid when he dies being remembered as the greatest american actor of his generation.
>Francis Ford Coppola’s
Friendly reminder he sued the family of a sexually abused kid and won
Also had the kid blacklisted after having him record ADR at the same house he was raped in. A class act all round, that Coppola.
And when the press asked him about it, he defended Salva, saying "the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small -- Victor was practically a child himself" (Salva was 29, the boy was 12 - 7, when the molestation started) and "The punishment has been completed, and he should be a citizen again" (Salva only spent 15 months in jail, and when he got out Coppola sent him money to live off of).
He really must've liked Jeeper's Creepers
It's a good movie and the sequel is even better
why did you use a pic of Furio? was he the kid?
The biggest movies the past few years have been leaning back toward arthouse, and run 2-3.5 hours instead of the typical 1.5 hours. What sort of dumb ass excuse is "too experimental" now? Fricking idiots. Always the people with the money that never get shit done.
>The biggest movies the past few years have been leaning back toward arthouse,
no, they haven't
>What sort of dumb ass excuse is "too experimental" now?
they mean the movie is shit or at least that it doesn't have wide appeal
>The self-funded epic is deemed ... “not good”
lmao harsh
It sounds interesting
>An accident destroys a New York City-like metropolis already in decay. An architectural idealist, Caesar, aims to rebuild the city as a utopia, while the mayor, Frank Cicero, thinks otherwise, partly because of corruption and power brokering. Meanwhile, Frank's daughter, Julia, tired of the attention and power she was born with because of him, looks for meaning in her life.[5]
and the fact that it is the vision of a single man instead of some made by committee garbage means i will go to watch it in theaters.
>vision of a single man
that's great if the man is in good artistic form like Tarantino making once upon a time or Chazelle making babylon. Not fricking this. Have you people never seen the Twixt? Literally everything about megalopolis screams shit from a mile but you're deluding yourself this might be good. Literally how? He hasn't made a good movie in over 30 years
>He hasn't made a good movie in over 30 years
Tetro is great
>that's great if the man is in good artistic form like Tarantino making once upon a time
kek, nice b8 anon
>kek, nice b8 anon
why are you acting as if i expressed some super unpopular opinion. So unpopular that it must be bait. Are you fricking moronic?
Any real cinephile would assume you were jesting. Your seething response suggests that you're actually just a pleb. How sad
>Caesar, aims to rebuild the city as a utopia
>Cicero, thinks otherwise, partly because of corruption and power brokering
Wow very subtle Francis
Lionsgate released the director's cut of Twixt, as well as other Coppola films on blu-ray, if nobody else is interested he could probably go to them.
must be a weird experience to work for an auteur so clearly over the hill
a mix of respect with bewildered contempt and pity
>imdb 4.7
give it to me straight, how bad is twix?
you won't believe your eyes and i'm not even memeing
it's genuinely awful. Not even so bad it's good.
at least he has the balls to make genuinely experimental movies that appeal to no one just to try and see what works
>making shit movies is actually avantgarde
It literally is. He is the biggest avant-garde artist in America. Doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks about him or his movies. Does whatever he wants. Will sell his family fortune just to make art. His movies might be bad but it's based behavior and basically no one else will ever do what he's doing.
hello, Francis
This is #1 on the Lost Media threads for all damn time if it never releases.
Francis uuuh youtube exists??? You can just upload it to youtube. Hope that helps!
>As we suspected yesterday, Francis Ford Coppola's “Megalopolis” has been confirmed to premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday May 17, 2024 (via Deadline).
>Coppola has already won the Palme d’Or twice (“The Conversation” and “Apocalypse Now”) and he’ll be aiming for his third one this coming May. The Cannes jury this year will be led by Greta Gerwig.
>Obviously, this Cannes/Megalopolis leak, no doubt coming from the Coppola camp, is meant to counter attack yesterday’s THR takedown. I expect Cannes, who must be very unhappy about the leak, are quickly writing a press release announcement.
Will he go 3 for 3? Or will he be humiliated at Cannes? Just the fact that this movie exists at his elderly age is pretty crazy
Reminder that studios FEAR the director-driven, independently made, passion project kino.
This is the same thing they did with Coppola's best friend George Lucas, who by the way made the most successful indie films of all time.
You will never hear these movies talked about as high art, they'll find every excuse to tear them down, blackball the actors and so on. The studios hated New Hollywood and still do today, they want to assert their control and make it nigh impossible to function as a production company without their help.
Oh, they'll fund Scorsese and Spielberg until they die, because their names and track records sell themselves. But the men from that visionary group who rejected studio work, who took some black marks on their resume but did it on their own, they'll be hated forever.
De Palma is another one. Never gets his flowers for making kino after kino, even when he failed he just kept moving along. Made a huge flop with Bonfire of the Vanities and then made Carlito's Way right after
>It's a israeli conspiracy no one wants to spend 100m on marketing for a movie that will definitely flop at the box office
this is your brain on /misc/
Hollywood has tried everything to defame the New Hollywood directors even though they made the most influential and greatest movies, the only one who became their darling is Spielberg because he became a part of Hollywood and Coppola and Lucas went their own path
what about kubrick? he also did his own stuff, how come hollywood doesn't hate him?
They literally killed him
juice are never held to the standard of others, they also fail up 100 % of the time
No one mentioned the israelites, no need to kvetch rabbi.
This, it's Kubrick, Coppola, Lucas and dePalma who they hate more than anyone, because they just shut out their critics, told the studios to go to hell, and made the movies they wanted to make and didn't kowtow to any agenda in making them. The less successful directors didn't make noise enough to worry the studio execs, but these four were the loudest, while also making movies people love.
The movement gave us the greatest period of American cinema ever and defined what moviemaking would be like for generations. That we've returned to a studio system with the success of capeshit and shared universes, yet nobody likes these movies, should speak volumes. The talented people aren't making blockbusters anymore, they're in television and new media.
They keep trying to quietly cancel Shymalan. One of the richest filmmakers working because he realised that if he funded his own films, he got to keep 100% of the profits.
Same thing as Lucas keeping merchandising and IP rights.
They didn't care while his films made them money, and when they stopped making money they dipped so low in quality it made it easy to just quietly let him fade away.
If they really feared Coppola they'd have used
as ammunition for a cancellation ages ago.
It’s not the 70s anymore, audiences have completely different sensibilities and ironically Lucas is largely responsible for that shift in sensibilities.
It's all cyclical, right now we're in our singing cowboy and Super Cinemascope phase. Soon the studios won't be able to bleed money like they are, and artists will be allowed to take control.
It won't be the sensibilities of the boomers who led the 70s, but the fact is that an audience will respond to a good movie, no matter the genre of style. People took to modern blockbusters because Jaws and Star Wars are passionate movies with skillful direction, compare that to the action-franchise of today where everyone shits on it for things ranging from effects work to the script. If the next new wave is full of films like Star Wars, Jaws, or Raiders of the Lost Ark, well sign me up.
The next new wave is going to be more Spider-Man reboots ranked as the highest rated movies on letterboxd because people are addicted to slop, sorry
Thankfully, reviews have never mattered when it comes to what people enjoy, even if they are user reviews.
I can see a future where theaters live on only as premium experiences like IMAX or Dolby Cinema, where the cost of entry is high enough that only movie lovers would go, and where the brown masses are left to their streaming apps.
All these israelite traps just so a literal living artistic legend can't release an already finished two hour movie.
When are goys gonna wake the frick up to this bullshit 1984 goverment shit we got going on?
The Godfather 1/ 2 and The Conversation are his only good films. Apocalypse Now is the biggest piece of overhyped Reddit trash that I’ve ever seen
>Apocalypse Now is reddit
Now i've heard everything
your head is too far up your own ass
His best film is Rumble Fish and he’s directed like five or six objectively perfect films, you’re a Black person and your probably like Goodfellas or John Wick you Reddit sucking gay b***h
i will see it in theaters
It'd sure be a shame if people started making a stink about Coppola funding a movie where a child was raped by the director during production, followed by Coppola personally paying said rapist's bail and then continuing to fund his movies while he was looking for distribution on his magnum opus.
old news. everyone deserves a second change especially talented directors.
It's only a matter of time before Twitter discovers this
>needing to market your movie
What’s the fricking movie fricking about?
I love reading about movies and film directors.
I admire Coppola's avant-garde sensibilities, no other living director is going to accomplish what he did with Megalopolis or even Apocalypse Now 50 years ago. However he has no right to complain if audiences don't respond positively to it and if studios don't want to sell it. If you're making a $100 million dollar movie that you want to have a positive impact on the world, it's your responsibility to make it have popular appeal. The Godfather is richly artistic but extremely popular, he knows how to strike that balance but apparently this movie is in the vein of his moronic experimental films that no one likes. This movie seems more like a vanity project that wasted $100 million instead of a work of compassion as he claims
the irony is if he waited 5 years he could make it for a hundred bucks with a.i.
this is just symbolic of boomers one final middle finger to the future
one final middle finger to his family
one final massive waste of resources representing their disgusting generation
Kind of based, I respect his audacity, at least it will cement this movie as the end of an era kind of
Why are the israelites still giving all these 85 year old directors money?
he made the movie with his own money you illiterate mongrel
Francis Ford Copepola