Lionsgate apologized and pulled the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming movie “Megalopolis” after it got here to gentle that the critics’ quotes used had been fabricated.
“Lionsgate is straight away recalling our trailer for ‘Megalopolis,’” a Lionsgate spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to Fox Information Digital. “We provide our honest apologies to the critics concerned and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting course of. We screwed up. We’re sorry.”
Quotes from critics reviewing Coppola’s different movies had been used within the “Megalopolis” trailer. Nevertheless, the sentiment of the quotes was not correct.
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“Megalopolis” will premiere on Sept. 27. (Lionsgate through AP)
“We screwed up. We’re sorry.”
The trailer, launched Wednesday, included quotes from critics like Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert of different Coppola movies that didn’t really seem of their opinions. The intent, it appears, was to spotlight the important divisiveness of now-classics like “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” leaning into a number of the extra adverse reactions to “Megalopolis,” the self-financed $120 million epic opening in September.
The trailer attributed a quote to Kael that “The Godfather” was “diminished by its artsiness.” However Kael liked “The Godfather,” and this phrase was not utilized in her March 1972 evaluation of the movie for The New Yorker. Ebert additionally didn’t write that Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” was “a triumph of fashion over substance.” Quotes from Rex Reed and Vincent Canby, about “Apocalypse Now,” didn’t seem of their opinions both.
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Francis Ford Coppola was accused of being “old-fashioned” in the direction of girls on the set of “Megalopolis.” (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis through Getty Photos)
“Megalopolis” has already been plagued with controversy. Coppola was accused of “old-fashioned” conduct in the direction of girls on set in a report printed by The Guardian in Might.
The director allegedly pulled girls into sitting on his lap, one supply advised the outlet. Whereas filming a nightclub scene, Coppola reportedly tried to kiss feminine extras who had been topless or scantily clad.
He claimed he was “attempting to get them within the temper,” in accordance with the outlet.
A consultant for Coppola didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark on the time.
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Francis Ford Coppola directed “The Godfather.” (Christophe Simon/AFP through Getty Photos)
“I’ve recognized and labored with Francis and his household for over 35 years,” “Megalopolis” government co-producer Darren Demetre advised The Guardian on the time. “As one of many first assistant administrators and an government producer on his new epic, ‘Megalopolis,’ I helped oversee and advise the manufacturing and ran the second unit. Francis efficiently produced and directed an unlimited impartial movie, making all of the tough selections to make sure it was delivered on time and on funds, whereas remaining true to his inventive imaginative and prescient.”
“There have been two days after we shot a celebratory Studio 54-esque membership scene the place Francis walked across the set to ascertain the spirit of the scene by giving form hugs and kisses on the cheek to the forged and background gamers,” the assertion continued. “It was his manner to assist encourage and set up the membership environment, which was so necessary to the movie. I used to be by no means conscious of any complaints of harassment or in poor health conduct in the course of the course of the challenge.”
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The Related Press contributed to this report.