Coppola's 'Megalopolis' flops at box office but shines in artistry

Here's why Chronicle movie critic Mick LaSalle believes Francis Ford Coppola's $120 million box office flop is still worth seeing.

This $120 million blockbuster is the grandest box office flop of 2024, and in a way its fate is deserved. It's not the kind of movie that ...

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Plenty of movies bomb, but Francis Ford Coppola's latest is part of a different class of box office failures.

But the film's $4 million debut was still sobering for a movie that Coppola bankrolled himself for $120 million. Following its premiere at the ...

'Megalopolis' has ended its run after just 4 weeks with a poor $7.6 million domestically and a terrible 1.90x multiplier. Worldwide total stands ...

Francis Ford Coppola's passion project "Megalopolis" looks like it's going to be a financial disaster. Here's why the ambitious film bombed ...

And the thing about Megalopolis is that Coppola didn't make it to turn a profit in September 2024. He made it as a grand statement on art, and ...

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis has proved divisive and a box office flop—is the film worth watching on the big screen, or is it best to ...

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis has been a box office disaster, but Kevin Costner's Horizon failure proves it could've been so much ...

After the Cannes Film Festival debut of Megalopolis—the estimated $120 million magnum opus that Francis Ford Coppola party financed with the ...

A Megalopolis box office flop might not necessarily damage Coppola, but it will cement him as a director more known for winning on big ...

As his reputation has gone up and down, Megalopolis always lingered in his mind. It was now or never, Coppola approaching his 90th birthday. In ...

From actors who came and went from the project to studios who pulled back funding, the haters very much knew what they were talking about. For a ...

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But a movie's box office does not determine its quality, and one has to assume that the 85-year-old Coppola isn't really concerned with " ...

Since its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Francis Ford Coppola's “Megalopolis” has divided critics and audiences alike.

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The film – perfectly fine! – was badly hurt by predictions of calamity at the US box office, but not abroad. It would still gross $275m (£211m) ...