As Deadline first instructed you first, Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis was all the time destined for an Imax launch. Heck, the primary screening was proven at Common Citywalk Imax theater. So, there’s no information in the truth that the $120M dystopian future epic is getting a world Imax launch.
The query poised on the Imax Cannes lunch right this moment was whether or not Coppola’s self-financed ardour challenge would nonetheless see the sunshine of day stateside even with out a U.S. distributor.
Imax Boss Wealthy Gelfond stated, “One of many issues that we pleasure ourselves on is being filmmaker pleasant.”
Whereas saying that the pic was getting a world Imax launch, Gelfond specified, “It’ll most likely be a restricted launch slightly than on all of the screens on the earth, it nearly definitely gained’t be that.”
“We met with him yesterday to debate the distribution plan and I suppose we have to wait till he has a home distributor. As you realize, he has 5 worldwide distributors. We wish to give you a coordinated international technique and we’ve got quite a lot of subsequent steps earlier than we do this,” added Gelfond on when the film would see a theatrical launch.
“Now we have dates with him, however we wish to wait till all of the distribution is settled down earlier than we talk about,” he continued.
“We are also engaged on a reside occasion with him; we’re making an attempt to perform a reside occasion earlier than Megalopolis, so somebody interviewing Francis.”
No phrase on who’s taking Coppola’s Megalopolis stateside. The filmmaker can be promoting streaming and TV rights individually, we perceive.
Megalopolis can be unveiled to the world tonight in Cannes.
