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Francis Ford Coppola is among those being honored by the Directors Guild of America at its upcoming DGA Honors ceremony. See It Now Studios President and former CBS News Executive Susan Zirinsky, Broadway Stages Founder Tony Argento along with its CEO & President Gina Argento, and film distribution…

EXCLUSIVE: There’ s going to be some glory, curves and rage over at Ava DuVernay's ARRAY this summer, in all the best ways. Back for its fifth year, the ARRAY 360 conversation and screening series will feature films and more from directors Patricia Cardoso, Bill Duke Ed Zwick over the next two…

This year’s Kennedy Center Honors will be awarded to director Francis Ford Coppola, rock band Grateful Dead, blues and rock singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval and the venue The Apollo. The ceremony will take place on Dec. 8, for broadcast on Dec. 23…

Lionsgate will be releasing Francis Ford Coppola’s $120M epic production Megalopolis stateside on Sept. 27 following its premiere at Cannes last month. This will be a wide release. Deadline hears this is a distribution deal for Lionsgate. Coppola will own the movie, which is the case for many of his…

Star Wars creator George Lucas was fêted with an Honorary Palme d'Or at this evening's Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony. In a poignant moment, Lucas was joined on stage by by his longtime friend, mentor and collaborator, Francis Ford Coppola who presented the award. On Lucas’ arrival, the crowd…

The Megalopolis parties and debates last week generously fed Cannes' appetite for media buzz. Fest-goers were reminded that Francis Coppola's journey had been a thrill ride for those who witnessed it, invested in it or were impacted by its turmoil. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola's $120 million passion project Megalopolis has closed a fresh raft of deals following its buzzy world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival last week.  It has sold to Australia (Madman Entertainment), Benelux (September Films), Bulgaria (Profilm), Czech…

Mike Figgis has been shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary for the past 18 months about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. It's called Megadoc. Figgis told me Monday that it's been edited but there's allowance for the fact that the film played in competition here at the Cannes Film…

Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning The Godfather Part II producer and longtime executive producer for Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola, died Saturday in Beverly Hills at 89, four days shy of his 90th birthday. The news about Roos, who won his Godfather Part II Oscar and later was nominated for…

It’s been a very long road for Francis Ford Coppola with Megalopolis, the movie he’s wanted to make for 40 years. And finally, at Cannes on Thursday night, he got his premiere, with a standing ovation both before and after the film, the latter lasting some seven-and-a-half minutes. “It’s a…

“To do a Roman epic set in modern America, I had no idea that the politics of today would make that so relevant,” Francis Ford Coppola said Friday in Cannes about this $120 million 40-years-in-the-making epic Megalopolis. The movie follows The City of New Rome, an allegory for New York City, in which…

The most awaited film this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, had its world premiere Thursday night, with the dystopian epic decades in the making landing a seven-minute standing ovation. Coppola, the 85-year-old director and five-time Oscar winners, bowed as the…