Nicole Kidman famously said in her AMC ad, “We come to this place for magic.” Yes, and so often we leave this place with a pounding headache. Of the more than 100 films I saw in 2024, here are the five that gave Excedrin Migraine the most business. And to cleanse your palate, check out … Read more
NEW YORK — Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making, self-financed epic “Megalopolis” flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film “The Wild Robot” soared to No. 1 at the weekend box office. “The Wild Robot,” Chris Sanders’ adaptation of Peter Brown’s bestseller, outperformed expectations to launch with $35 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canada theaters, according to … Read more
movie review MEGALOPOLIS Running time: 138 minutes. Rated R (sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and some violence). In theaters Sept. 27. There are two battles being fought in Francis Ford Coppola’s confounding “Megalopolis.” One feud is between a forward-thinking architect named Cesar (Adam Driver), who wants to rebuild the fictional American city of New … Read more
It was a mega blunder. The trailer for the latest Francis Ford Coppola movie, “Megalopolis,” premiered on Wednesday. Soon after, Lionsgate studio recalled the trailer. “Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis. We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in … Read more
Francis Ford Coppola reportedly spent $120 million of his own money to make “Megalopolis,” which began as a script he started 40 years ago. None of Hollywood’s studio bosses liked it then — and now it’s unclear when or if it will end up in American theaters. After the sci-fi film — about the fight for a … Read more
At the Cannes Film Festival news conference on Friday for his new film, “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola entered holding hands with his granddaughters. “When I came here for ‘Apocalypse Now,’ I had Sofia on my shoulder,” Coppola said of his daughter, who also became a director. That trip to Cannes took place 45 years ago … Read more
Late in “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s plaintively hopeful movie about — well, everything under the sun — a character speaks to the power of love. It’s a wistful moment in a fascinating film aswirl with wild visions, lofty ideals, cinematic allusions, literary references, historical footnotes and self-reflexive asides, all of which Coppola has funneled into … Read more
“Megalopolis,” the first film from the director Francis Ford Coppola in 13 years, premiered Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. Self-financed by Coppola, the $120 million passion project has earned headlines about a reportedly chaotic shoot, allegations of misconduct and questions about the film’s commercial prospects. But what exactly are we dealing with here? Now … Read more
As anticipation for the premiere of “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in more than a decade, built to a fever pitch at Cannes, the director faced accusations Tuesday that he tried to kiss extras during a nightclub sequence. A report in The Guardian detailing the film’s chaotic production said that according to anonymous sources, … Read more