If there is a director who will never work with a stream platform, this is Francis Ford Coppola. An 86 -year -old man is deeply tied to the movie theater and the experience of a dark room in a way to refuse to operate his latest science fiction film on television.
In 2024, the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse now submits to the skin, the title he dreamed of for forty years and which he himself funded up to $ 120 million: Megalopolis.
A science fiction film that was divided
Megalopolis is Roman epic imaginary in modern America during complete decade. The new Roman city should absolutely change, creating a great conflict with Cesar Katilina (Adam driver), a genius who has time to stop, and Mary Archi-coonservative Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito).
The first dream of the ideal utopian future, and the second remains a very attached regressive status quo, greed, privileges and private militiamen. Mary’s daughter and Jetu Julia Cicero (Natalie Emmanuel), who is in love with Cesar Katilina, is torn between two men and has to find out what is best for her for the future of mankind.
Despite his director and all the will of his team, Megalopolis is far from convincing the press and the audience. From 5 to 2 of the division, science fiction drama was considered brilliant and grotesque. But these were cash register figures who put the last nail in the coffin because he had a dry loss of $ 75 million …
Francis Ford Coppola says no
If the film does not perform in the cinema, the studios have another alternative to making figures: its operation on DVD, VOD or flow platforms. The process against which Francis Ford Copola fought if we believe Different American media.
Next Term For example, a film director refused to have several partners with European distributors to prevent the arrival of a feature film on catalogs. “I want to have the rights to him. It is not interested to sell them to others. I want to control everything,” he said.
Thus, in the United States, science fiction drama Has not been published on DVD No more, always at the request of the director. His argument? “The movie is always seen in the cinema.”
Currently, a year after the film’s release in the cinema, Megalopolis is only available in the channel+ catalog (which is a partner of the Cannes Film Festival where the film showed). Thus, the French society can regard itself “happily”.
Source: Allocine
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