{"id":141589,"date":"2025-05-09T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/francis-ford-coppola-talks-megalopolis-cult-status-trumps-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T23:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:50:30","slug":"francis-ford-coppola-talks-megalopolis-cult-status-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/francis-ford-coppola-talks-megalopolis-cult-status-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ford Coppola Talks ‘Megalopolis’ Cult Status & Trump’s Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAlthough Megalopolis<\/a><\/em> was a crucial and industrial flop upon its preliminary launch, Francis Ford Coppola<\/a> is assured the movie will discover its cult viewers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 5x Oscar winner just lately defined that the film has but to return to streaming or bodily media \u201cbecause the film is still being shown in theaters\u201d and has turn out to be further related after Donald Trump<\/a> was elected president in November.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t want anyone to own it,\u201d Coppola advised GQ<\/a><\/em>. \u201cAfter the election, people are selling out screenings of Megalopolis<\/em>\u2014the way it was intended to be seen. Being that it was so prophetic or prescient to say America is like Rome\u2014it\u2019s going to maybe lose its republic\u2014now people are rushing to see it in theaters. We sold out three screenings in Boston recently, in Detroit, and people are really lining up. It\u2019s just like what happened with Apocalypse Now<\/em>. Apocalypse Now<\/em> was a big flop, it got terrible reviews, everyone said it was the worst movie ever made. And yet people never stopped going to see it. The same thing is now happening with Megalopolis<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite Coppola\u2019s $120 million funding within the epic blockbuster, Megalopolis<\/em> was torn aside by critics, incomes $14.3M worldwide. First conceived by Coppola in 1983, the movie deconstructs Roman historical past in a contemporary alternate New York City.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the identical interview, Coppola denounced the Trump administration\u2019s current announcement that they\u2019re implementing 100% tariffs on foreign-made movies<\/a>, successfully \u201cslamming the door closed\u201d on alternatives for the movie and tv business.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrancis Ford Coppola on the AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute held at The Dolby Theatre on April 26, 2025 in Los Angeles, California<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cNo one I know thinks that this tariff philosophy\u2014 All it does is create uncertainty,\u201d stated Coppola. \u201cPeople don\u2019t understand that the economy in the previous administration? There was world inflation, there wasn\u2019t [just] inflation in America. The entire world was going through a serious inflationary trend. But the country that did the best with it\u2014and which other countries were jealous of\u2014was the United States. So, the United States really banked a lot of money previous to this new administration, and there\u2019s a lot of money in the country, and these tariffs<\/a> are like slamming the door closed on what was a very prosperous situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast weekend, Trump known as runaway productions a \u201cnational security threat\u201d and introduced plans to place 100% tariffs on imports of flicks produced in \u201cforeign lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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