Though Megalopolis was a vital and industrial flop upon its preliminary launch, Francis Ford Coppola is assured the movie will discover its cult viewers.
The 5x Oscar winner lately defined that the film has but to return to streaming or bodily media “as a result of the movie remains to be being proven in theaters” and has change into additional related after Donald Trump was elected president in November.
“I don’t need anybody to personal it,” Coppola informed GQ. “After the election, individuals are promoting out screenings of Megalopolis—the best way it was supposed to be seen. Being that it was so prophetic or prescient to say America is like Rome—it’s going to perhaps lose its republic—now individuals are dashing to see it in theaters. We offered out three screenings in Boston lately, in Detroit, and individuals are actually lining up. It’s identical to what occurred with Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now was a giant flop, it acquired horrible evaluations, everybody mentioned it was the worst film ever made. And but folks by no means stopped going to see it. The identical factor is now occurring with Megalopolis.”
Regardless of Coppola’s $120 million funding within the epic blockbuster, Megalopolis was torn aside by critics, incomes $14.3M worldwide. First conceived by Coppola in 1983, the movie deconstructs Roman historical past in a contemporary alternate New York Metropolis.
In the identical interview, Coppola denounced the Trump administration’s current announcement that they’re implementing 100% tariffs on foreign-made movies, successfully “slamming the door closed” on alternatives for the movie and tv business.
Francis Ford Coppola on the AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute held at The Dolby Theatre on April 26, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
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“Nobody I do know thinks that this tariff philosophy— All it does is create uncertainty,” mentioned Coppola. “Folks don’t perceive that the economic system within the earlier administration? There was world inflation, there wasn’t [just] inflation in America. Your entire world was going by a critical inflationary pattern. However the nation that did the most effective with it—and which different international locations had been jealous of—was america. So, america actually banked some huge cash earlier to this new administration, and there’s some huge cash within the nation, and these tariffs are like slamming the door closed on what was a really affluent scenario.”
Final weekend, Trump known as runaway productions a “nationwide safety risk” and introduced plans to place 100% tariffs on imports of films produced in “international lands.”
