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Francis Ford Coppola (/ ˈ k oʊ p əl ə / KOH-pəl-ə, Italian:; born 7 April 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood film movement of the 1960s and 1970s and is widely considered one of the greatest directors of all time.
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- Francis Ford Coppola Filmography
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An accident destroys a New York City-like metropolis already in decay. Cesar Catilina, an idealist architect with the power to control time, aims to rebuild the city as a sustainable utopia, while his opposition, corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo. Coming between the opposing men and their visions is Frankly...
Development
Growing up in New York, Francis Ford Coppola was fascinated by science fiction films such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) and William Cameron Menzies's Things to Come (1936), and the scientific community's history with dangerous experiments. Coppola conceived the overall idea for Megalopolis towards the end of filming Apocalypse Now (1979) in 1977. Sound designer Richard Beggs described Coppola's vision as a "gigantic opera, shown over four nights in some place as close as possible to the g...
Pre-production
On April 3, 2019, Coppola announced his return to the project, having approached Jude Law and Shia LaBeouf for lead roles. Coppola reportedly spent $120 million of his own money to produce the film, having sold a "significant piece of his wine empire" in Northern California. By August 2021, discussions with actors to star in the film had begun; James Caan was set to star while Cate Blanchett, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jon Voight, Forest Whitaker, and Zendaya were in vario...
Filming
Principal photography began on November 1, 2022, and took place at Trilith Studios and around Atlanta, Georgia. It was to be the first film shot on Trilith Studios' Prysm Stage, an LED volume stage, but due to budget constraints, the production pivoted to a "less costly, more traditional greenscreen approach". In reference to ancient Rome, some male actors donned Caesar cuts. On December 9, 2022, Coppola fired most of the visual effects team, with the rest of the department, including supervi...
In 2001, Coppola described the film as setting the characters of the Catilinarian conspiracy in modern New York, saying: "In many ways what it's really about is a metaphor—because if you walk around New York and look around, you could make Rome there", adding: "Ultimately what's at stake is the future, because it takes the premise that the future, ...
The film is scheduled to premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2024. Coppola saw the film in full for the first time on an IMAX screen at the company's headquarters in Playa Vista, Los Angeles. The film used camera technology for certain sequences that could cover an entire IMAX screen. On March 28, 2024, a private screening of the f...
Initial reactions
The early industry screening for studio executives resulted in reactions considered divisive while some were mixed, though others were primarily of general bewilderment. Matthew Belloni of Puck reported that many left questioning the film's commercial viability with one audience member referring to it as "one of the most baffling they've ever seen". Deadline Hollywood's Mike Fleming Jr., more receptive toward the screening, wrote the film is "crackling with ideas that fuse the past with the f...
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The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title.
- $250–291 million
- Nino Rota
- $6–7.2 million
- Albert S. Ruddy
The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American director, producer, and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola is the winner of multiple film awards both nationally and internationally including Academy Awards for Patton.
YearNominated WorkAwardResult20113rd place20096th place2009Nominated1997NominatedFrancis Ford Coppola. Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American director and movie producer. He directed the Godfather trilogy and the Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now. He is part of the group called the New Hollywood.
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Francis Ford Coppola. Producer: Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician.
