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‘Megalopolis' Finds French Distribution, Sets September Release (www.worldofreel.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/movies

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While U.S. distributors continue to complain about its low commercial prospects, Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” has been picked up by Le Pacte in France. French newspaper Le Point confirms the film has also set a late September release in France.

Le Pacte is the same distributor as last year’s “Anatomy of a Fall.” No word yet on how much they paid to nab the rights to “Megalopolis,” but I can’t imagine it being that high given that Le Pacte isn’t necesarilly a studio known to dish out an inordinate amount of money for a film.

The early word we’ve gotten thus far is that Coppola’s self-funded $120 million epic is a perplexing film. It’s been described as “batsh*t crazy.” “baffling,” “downright confounding,” “undefinable,” “fit for a museum” and the “work of a madman.”

Last month’s, THR takedown of “Megalopolis,” a nasty piece of writing, surely didn’t help anything. What the report basically stated was that “Megalopolis” studio execs believed the film to be “too experimental” and “not commercial enough” to acquire.

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[–] CptEnder 12 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Am I crazy or does anyone else think it's strange a FFC film is "finding distribution"?! Like even if it's an ungodly piece of shit, American studios could still probably make money off his name alone. Like did he just forget to let his agent know he made a new movie? Lmao

[–] jordanlund 10 points 7 months ago

Just running ads with "From the academy award wining writer and director of the Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and co-author of Patton comes..."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's supposedly super weird. Like in a "nobody will get this shit" way. Which makes me just wanna see it more. If film nuts and critics find it insane, it's gotta be good.

[–] CptEnder 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh for sure I'll watch it out of respect if nothing else haha.

[–] niktemadur 1 points 7 months ago

Film lovers will never forget.
General audiences is an entirely different scenario.

For so many people, those Coppola films are more distant to them than "Gone With The Wind" was to me growing up. And you never saw anybody my age talking about having seen "Gone With The Wind" and saying "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" to each other.

[–] dlpkl 1 points 7 months ago

It's going to be bad. Very bad lol