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Coppola Auctions Watches After Movie Fizzles

'I need to get some money to keep the ship afloat,' says director of Megalopolis

(Newser) - Francis Ford Coppola's latest film, Megalopolis , may have been a passion project decades in the making, but it appears to have left the legendary director in a financial crunch. The 85-year-old put up much of the financing for the $120 million sci-fi epic himself, but the movie fizzled at...

Coppola Hospitalized After Heart Procedure

Director is recuperating, tells fans he's 'fine' and 'well'

(Newser) - Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is recovering in a Rome hospital after undergoing a scheduled heart procedure, just days after finishing a US tour for his latest film. The acclaimed 86-year-old director behind the Godfather trilogy was treated by Dr. Andrea Natale, a cardiologist who has managed Coppola's...

Steven Spielberg Names the Best American Movie Ever
Steven Spielberg Names
'Greatest American Film Ever'
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May 4, 2025 4:00 PM CDT

Steven Spielberg Names 'Greatest American Film Ever'

For the award-winning director, it's Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather

(Newser) - Steven Spielberg has named the No. 1 movie ever created here in the US—and it's not Jaws, ET, Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or any of his other award-winning flicks. At a star-filled American Film Institute event on Saturday in Los Angeles honoring fellow filmmaker...

Sicilian Businessman Sent a Severed Horse's Head
Someone Just Pulled a Bloody
Godfather Stunt in Sicily
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Nov 24, 2024 3:50 PM CST

Someone Just Pulled a Bloody Godfather Stunt in Sicily

Severed horse's head found on businessman's property near Palermo, an apparent Mafia warning

(Newser) - It's one of the most famous scenes in moviemaking history, and it just played out in real life on the Italian island of Sicily. The Guardian reports that a severed horse's head was found on the property of a local contractor, located in Altofonte near Palermo, placed on...

Coppola Poured Money and Soul Into This Film. People Hate It

Audiences reject Megalopolis , but defenders say it's a work of art that will be appreciated in time

(Newser) - American film audiences got their first chance this weekend to weigh in on legend Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-the-making film Megalopolis . No thanks, they replied .
  • "There is no kind way to put it," writes Brooks Barns in the New York Times . The movie "died on arrival over
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Coppola Files $15M Lawsuit Against Variety

Megalopolis director is suing trade publication for libel after claims of inappropriate behavior on set

(Newser) - Just days before his latest film, Megalopolis, is set to hit theaters, Francis Ford Coppola is suing Hollywood trade publication Variety for its earlier reporting on alleged inappropriate on-set behavior while making the movie. An article in the magazine in July claimed that the 85-year-old director acted in an "...

Studio Pulls Trailer With Invented Quotes

Despite Megalopolis trailer, Pauline Kael really liked The Godfather

(Newser) - When it debuted at Cannes, Megalopolis did not elicit the enthusiastic reception from critics that Francis Ford Coppola surely wanted. Some found it baffling if fascinating, Bilge Ebiri writes in Vulture . The studio's response included releasing a trailer for the film on Wednesday with quotes from several mostly negative...

Footage Emerges After Claims of 'Unprofessional' Coppola Behavior

Clips show Godfather director embracing, kissing female extras on set of Megalopolis

(Newser) - Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is coming out at the end of September, but the current advance buzz doesn't have much to do with the movie itself. Instead, it focuses on more allegations against the famed Godfather film director involving him acting "unprofessional" on the movie set, including...

He Helped Launch the Careers of Cruise, Nicholson, Ford

Francis Ford Coppola's longtime collaborator Fred Roos dead at 89

(Newser) - Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning producer of The Godfather Part II who helped launch the careers of numerous superstars from Jack Nicholson to Tom Cruise, has died. He was 89. He died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday, a representative said Tuesday, just days after his and Francis...

Megalopolis Gets 7-Minute Ovation at Cannes

Critics are split on long-awaited Coppola epic

(Newser) - Francis Ford Coppola's epic Megalopolis, more than 40 years in the making , made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday and while reactions were mixed, there was a lot of love for the director. Variety reports that the 85-year-old received a four-minute standing ovation when he entered...

Eleanor Coppola Dead at 87
Eleanor Coppola
Dead at 87
Apr 13, 2024 6:00 AM CDT

Eleanor Coppola Dead at 87

She documented the making of some of her husband's famous films

(Newser) - Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died, the AP reports. She was 87. Coppola died Friday surrounded by family at home in Rutherford,...

Coppola Epic 40 Years in the Making Will Debut at Cannes

Renowned director self-funded 'Megalopolis'

(Newser) - A movie that has been in development for almost half of Francis Ford Coppola's life will make its debut at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17. Coppola, who turned 85 on Sunday, wrote the first version of the screenplay for Megalopolis in 1983, the Guardian reports. Production wrapped...

Coppola Film Has Reportedly 'Descended Into Chaos'

'Megalopolis' set in Atlanta said to be mired in mass firings/resignations, spiking costs

(Newser) - Just a few weeks ago, all seemed to be chugging along on the set of Megalopolis, the latest film in the works by Francis Ford Coppola, with a star-studded cast that includes Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Talia Shire, Dustin Hoffman, and Forest Whitaker. But appearances were apparently cloaking what's...

Ford Coppola Banking $120M of Own Money on His Opus

Director aims to make a classic called 'Megalopolis'

(Newser) - He's 82 now, and Francis Ford Coppola does the math in a lengthy profile at GQ . Based on family history, he might live another 20 years. So to be safe, cut that in half. Ten years. Plenty of time to make the movie he "has been trying to...

Godfather Trilogy Gets a 'More Appropriate' End
Godfather III Gets
a New Ending
Sep 4, 2020 10:05 AM CDT

Godfather III Gets a New Ending

Re-edited version coming to theaters in December

(Newser) - The Godfather trilogy has a new ending—and if all goes well, you'll be able to see it in theaters this year. A newly restored and edited version of The Godfather: Part III, with a new beginning and ending as well as "rearranged" scenes, is to be released...

Scorsese: Marvel Movies Aren't Cinema. Coppola: Hold My Beer

Francis Ford Coppola calls superhero movies 'despicable'

(Newser) - Martin Scorsese caused a bit of a hubbub two weeks ago when he weighed in on the superhero movie genre, offering his take that Marvel movies are emotionally and psychologically bereft and "not cinema." Now, Francis Ford Coppola, the director behind Apocalypse Now and the Godfather franchise, has...

5 Film Directors Who 'Definitely Crossed the Line'

Listverse: They apparently got a little too ambitious on set while creating their art

(Newser) - There's immersing yourself in your art, and then there's drowning yourself and the others who work for you. Listverse takes a look at famous movie directors who maybe got a little overzealous during film production, alleged to have caused emotional and physical damage and, in one case, deaths....

Winona to Keanu: Hey, I Think We Got Married

Francis Ford Coppola kind of agrees, thanks to authentic scene in 1992 movie

(Newser) - Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves are doing publicity for their fourth movie together, Destination Wedding, and Ryder suggests they might accidentally be more than co-actors. “We actually got married in Dracula," she tells Entertainment Weekly , referring to the 1992 movie. "No, I swear to god I think...

10 Most-Thanked People in Oscar History

And the winner is ... Steven Spielberg

(Newser) - In anticipation of the Oscars on Sunday, Vocativ analyzed all 1,396 acceptance speeches the Academy has archived on its website to figure out which Hollywood bigwigs get thanked the most. The results:
  1. Steven Spielberg: He's been thanked 42 times—and even by people who have simply been inspired
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5 Celeb-Owned Tourist Attractions

Schedule your summer road trip around the stars

(Newser) - Taking a summer road trip? Obsessed with Hollywood? If both of those things apply to you, consider visiting one of these five travel attractions owned by celebrities, as rounded up by Biography.com :
  • Dollywood: Dolly Parton bought a stake in a Tennessee theme park, named it after herself, and the
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