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Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is currently one of the biggest box office failures of this year. The movie, led by the two-time Oscar-nominated actor Adam Driver, is struggling to survive in the cinemas. It is a big-budget movie that was in development for years, and it seems to have gone sour for the audience’s taste. It is failing to impress its fans domestically and overseas. Keep scrolling for the deets.
Coppola self-financed his film by selling a part of his California wine estate and borrowing against his wine business. He spent around $120 million to make this magnum opus and reportedly another $20 million on marketing and distribution. The film was surrounded by controversies even before it came out. Videos of the director kissing and groping extras were all over social media. An extra filed a lawsuit with allegations of sexual harassment against the filmmaker in Fulton County Superior Court.
The extra accused Francis Ford Coppola of kissing her cheek and touching multiple parts of her body without consent while filming a scene in 2023. Megalopolis’ box office collection might suffer because of the negative publicity and scandal, but that is a partial reason. According to the critic’s consensus via Rotten Tomatoes, it is “more of a creative manifesto than a cogent narrative feature; Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is an overstuffed opus that’s equal parts stimulating and slapdash.”
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