Aubrey Plaza addresses negative speculation surrounding Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’: “I thought it was kind of funny”

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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. 

Angelique Jackson Nathalie Emmanuel‘s first trip to the Cannes Film Festival was certainly a memorable one. The “Fast and Furious” franchise star and “Game of Thrones” alum knows what it’s like to be in the spotlight, but Cannes is unique. First, consider the fact that she’s the leading lady in legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola‘s longtime passion project “Megalopolis,” which made its world premiere at the festival.

The stars of Megalopolis are back on the red carpet!

The stars of Megalopolis are back on the red carpet!

Francis Ford Coppola’s 140-minute dystopian drama Megalopolis received a mixed reaction at its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday (May 16), with some members of the audience initially booing.The Godfather director’s new, self-financed film stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an architect-scientist who wants to improve a fictional version of New York City called New Rome.Audience members reportedly started booing after the film ended. However, according to World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy, the boos soon turned to cheers when an “In Memoriam” segment proceeded to play for Coppola’s late wife Eleanor. The director and cast then received a seven-minute standing ovation.“Thank you all so much.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Francis Ford Coppola‘s “Megalopolis,” which premiered at Cannes Film Festival May 16. The wait is over: “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi drama has finally premiered at Cannes Film Festival, shocking and dividing critics. The film, a $120 million epic starring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Giancarlo Esposito and Shia LaBeouf, was financed by Coppola himself — and has yet to secure a distributor in the United States. Regardless, the movie earned a 7-minute standing ovation from Cannes, as Coppola hugged Driver and Esposito and delivered an emotional speech dedicating the film to hope and family.

When news first began circulating that distributors found Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited passion project “Megalopolis” tough to market, people were quick to shrug their shoulders in response.

The most awaited film this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, had its world premiere Thursday night, with the dystopian epic decades in the making landing a seven-minute standing ovation.

Many questions abound as Francis Ford Coppola‘s self-budgeted epic “Megalopolis” heads into its Cannes debut. Will the film be received more generously than its LA industry screening in March? Will Coppola find a distributor for it on the Croisette? And will “Megalopolis” survive controversy and be a smash success at the festival much like Coppola’s 1979 masterwork “Apocalypse Now“? READ MORE: ‘Megalopolis’ Teaser: One Man Wants To Create A Utopia In Francis Ford Coppola’s Passion Project IMAX is banking on “Megalopolis” no matter what happens after its premiere.

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Imax has committed screens around the world to show Francis Ford Coppola‘s magnum opus “Megalopolis,” the company’s CEO Richard Gelfond confirmed at a Cannes Film Festival event on Thursday. The film’s trailer, which debuted on Tuesday, said that “Megalopolis” would be coming to Imax theaters this year — but it was not specified that the release would be global. The run-up to the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed epic at Cannes on Friday has been filled with anticipation and controversy, partly because “Megalopolis” has yet to secure a U.S.

Alex Ritman Nathalie Emmanuel knows all about not talking about the projects she’s in. Seven years on “Game of Thrones” as the fan-favorite Missandei gave the Brit an instant lesson on the dangers of spoiling a show where much of its popularity rested on an endless supply of (mostly bloody) shocks and surprises. But Emmanuel’s now unable to talk about something very different, and for very different reasons.

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Megalopolis, without ever getting round to filming any scenes.The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director is preparing for the world premiere of the film at the Cannes Film Festival this week (May 17), but a new report suggests that many on the film’s crew were left frustrated and confused by his unconventional filmmaking techniques.Speaking anonymously to the Guardian, one crew member explained: “He would often show up in the mornings before these big sequences and because no plan had been put in place, and because he wouldn’t allow his collaborators to put a plan in place, he would often just sit in his trailer for hours on end, wouldn’t talk to anybody, was often smoking marijuana … And hours and hours would go by without anything being filmed.”“And the crew and the cast would all stand around and wait. And then he’d come out and whip up something that didn’t make sense, and that didn’t follow anything anybody had spoken about or anything that was on the page, and we’d all just go along with it, trying to make the best out of it.

For years, the idea of “Megalopolis” has been enough to fuel speculation. How could this film possibly be so important that Francis Ford Coppola was willing to stake his career on it? Not only that, this passion project means so much to the director that he felt compelled to put up his own money to finance the $120 million epic.

The official teaser trailer for the upcoming movie Megalopolis has been revealed and Francis Ford Coppola is teasing the film as his “best work ever.”

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Our new film ‘Megalopolis’ is the best work I’ve ever had the privilege to preside over,” reads a quote attributed to iconic director Francis Ford Coppola attached to the official trailer for his new epic film. The picture, which will premiere in competition on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, has been a project many years in the making for the director, who first began work on the screenplay in the 1980s. The legendary filmmaker behind “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” has invested $120 million of his own money into the film.

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis has sold to key independent buyers in Europe’s top five territories, we can reveal.

Adam Driver plays an architect with the power to control time in the first trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited new film Megalopolis. Watch the clip below.The two-minute teaser shows Driver’s character Cesar Catilina teetering on the roof of a skyscraper.