After a few years of looking out to bag Megalopolis made, director Francis Ford Coppola do up $120 million of his possess money for the film. However the promotional advertising campaign is off to a rocky start up after the trailer turned into as soon as pulled by Lionsgate due to fans came upon that it quoted faux opinions for Coppola’s earlier motion pictures.
Megalopolis turned into as soon as already facing evil buzz after its competition screenings. The trailer regarded adore it turned into as soon as designed to counter that by quoting unique adverse opinions for The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The implication turned into as soon as that critics had been substandard about these classics, and moreover substandard about Megalopolis. Then all any other time, it didn’t grab long for fogeys to designate that the opinions in do a question to weren’t honest.
Via Diversity, a Lionsgate spokesperson acknowledged, “We provide our honest apologies to the critics enthusiastic and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting activity. We screwed up. We are sorry.”
It is now not totally sure how the faux opinions had been do collectively. Roger Ebert’s quote, attributed to his Dracula overview, turned into as soon as in fact pulled from his overview for