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Lionsgate will be releasing Francis Ford Coppola’s $120M epic production Megalopolis stateside on Sept. 27 following its premiere at Cannes last month. This will be a wide release. Deadline hears this is a distribution deal for Lionsgate. Coppola will own the movie, which is the case for many of his…

In morose moments, and I'll admit to having a few, I sometimes stare at a framed illustration on my work desk. Entitled "HOLLYWOOD 1988," it is a whimsical map of the motion picture business as it existed back then. The concept and a lot of the sight gags were mine; but Nancy Ohanion was the artist who…

Read all of Deadline’s Cannes Film Festival reviews below, including Palme d’Or winner Anora. The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. The film, playing in the official…

No one really expected this year’s Cannes Film Festival to replicate the stellar showing of last year at the Oscars, when official selections Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall, and The Zone of Interest took an unprecedented three of the 10 Best…

The Megalopolis parties and debates last week generously fed Cannes' appetite for media buzz. Fest-goers were reminded that Francis Coppola's journey had been a thrill ride for those who witnessed it, invested in it or were impacted by its turmoil. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola's $120 million passion project Megalopolis has closed a fresh raft of deals following its buzzy world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival last week.  It has sold to Australia (Madman Entertainment), Benelux (September Films), Bulgaria (Profilm), Czech…

Mike Figgis has been shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary for the past 18 months about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. It's called Megadoc. Figgis told me Monday that it's been edited but there's allowance for the fact that the film played in competition here at the Cannes Film…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the narrative of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. EXCLUSIVE: One of the many talking points to emerge from this week’s Cannes Film Festival screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis is whether distributors will be able to replicate the…

It’s been a very long road for Francis Ford Coppola with Megalopolis, the movie he’s wanted to make for 40 years. And finally, at Cannes on Thursday night, he got his premiere, with a standing ovation both before and after the film, the latter lasting some seven-and-a-half minutes. “It’s a…

“To do a Roman epic set in modern America, I had no idea that the politics of today would make that so relevant,” Francis Ford Coppola said Friday in Cannes about this $120 million 40-years-in-the-making epic Megalopolis. The movie follows The City of New Rome, an allegory for New York City, in which…

Afternoon, Max Goldbart here with your International Insider on day four of a super-busy Cannes. Read on, and sign up here. ‘Megalopolis’ Is Talk Of Cannes A more straightforward affair: After a tense build-up shaped by endless rumors of an imminent…

As Megalopolis continues to seek a U.S. distribution deal, its writer-director Francis Ford Coppola was asked to comment on the state of the film industry and whether the movie’s best destination is on streaming. “Streaming is what we use to call home video,” was the director’s first response to the…