Opening to wide release on Friday (September 27th), Megalopolis brought in only $4 million over its first weekend, seemingly sealing its fate as a box office flop in the face of Coppola's gamble that self-funding the film would be worth it to not have to deal with studio oversight.
As Consequence's Liz Shannon Miller wrote in her review, the film is becoming 'the world's most expensive cautionary tale when it comes to spending $120 million of one's own money so that you don't have to listen to studio notes.'
But despite Coppola's sweeping vision, Megalopolis' positive attributes feel, as Miller said in her review, 'overshadowed by the film's worst choices,' which include casting 'people who were canceled' - like the disgraced Shia LaBeouf.
Additionally, there were controversies regarding Coppola's allegedly inappropriate and unprofessional behavior towards extras on set, and a bizarre blunder in which the film's trailer used fake quotes, resulting in it being pulled by the film's distributor, Lionsgate.
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