The new trailer of Megalopolis set social media on fire
Ultimately, those responsible for advertising and marketing Megalopolis she will have succeeded: we are talking about the film and that was the goal. Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, which continues to divide and fuel conversations since its presentation in official competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, is in fact today at the center of a controversy regarding his new film-announcement (.under). This, put online on the morning of August 21 in the United States, was removed a few hours later from the networks of its distributor Lionsgate. Which then released a statement of apology.
Problematic quotes
So what’s the problem? To introduce the images of Megalopoliswith Laurence Fishburne stating in voiceover “true genius is often misunderstood“, the trailer first shows negative reviews of several Francis Ford Coppola films. And films considered masterpieces of cinema. For example, we can read aboutApocalypse now that it is”a spectacular failure“, from the pen of John Simon of the National Review. Or again, the qualifying words of Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice The Godfather of a movie”without knowing what it wants to beAnd the problem is this: these criticisms are totally invented.

There certainly wouldn’t have been so much controversy if these false reviews hadn’t been reported to real journalists and critics. In addition to real publications. John Simon and Andrew Sarris have written well about these Francis Ford Coppola films. But nowhere in their reviews do these quotes appear. They would therefore suggest that they have expressed a negative opinion on these films, but this is not the case.
So there’s this problem at the forefront: the attribution of fictitious words to real personalities. But the trailer also suggests, no less embarrassingly, that the press would be soenemy of cinematographic art. And that she wouldn’t understand much about it. In other words, since critics were very divided after the world premiere of Megalopolis in Cannes, the distributor wanted to continue playing the contrast between public and criticsfalsely suggesting that since critics were previously wrong about the great classics The Godfather AND Apocalypse nowhe would be wrong once again Megalopolis.
Lionsgate Apologizes
Spotted and dismantled by VultureThis manipulation then provoked a wave of protests in the United States. A reaction so intense that Lionsgate backtracked, removed the trailer from its networks and released a statement of apology:
Lionsgate Immediately Removes the Trailer for “Megalopolis”. We sincerely apologize to the affected reviewers, as well as Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this unforgivable error in our approval process. We were wrong. We are sorry.
We can always say that there is no such thing as bad publicity as long as it gets people talking. But it is starting to do a lot for Megalopolisfor which scandals and controversies followed one another. At the beginning there were publications that spoke of chaotic filming and production. The suggestion is also that Megalopolis would not have American distribution on the main circuit. Then accusations of inappropriate behavior and harassment by Francis Ford Coppola towards the young extras.
This final story created by this trailer with false quotes is further proof of that. Megalopoliswhether it is good or bad, it is already a legendary film.
Source: Cine Serie

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