The only thing stranger than Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million passion project, Megalopolis, was the director’s journey to make it. Thankfully, another director was there to film the whole thing.

The story of how Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis came to be a fly on the wall as Francis Ford Coppola filmed his controversial epic "Megalopolis" begins on Oscar night, 1996. Figgis first met the ...

Say what you will about Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” — God knows I certainly did — but his $120 million, critically reviled box office disaster dared to ask some important questions. Questions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bibbiani returns to the excesses that Figgis documents several times in his review, noting that the catering budget alone amounted ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: Catch the first trailer for Megadoc, the making-of-Megalopolis documentary that has its world premiere coming up at the Venice Film Festival. The film was ...

Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Laurence Fishburne, and Robert De Niro appear in the documentary that will debut at Venice 2025. After receiving Academy Awards and becoming an icon of ...

The 'Leaving Las Vegas' director takes us behind the scenes of the chaotic $120-million self-financed shoot, which was both agony and ecstasy for those involved. By Jordan Mintzer There are many stars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At one point in “Megadoc,” a documentary about the production of Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious, self-financed “Megalopolis,” ...

In 1991, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse took viewers behind the scenes of one of the most troubled, difficult film productions of all time, as Francis Ford Coppola attempted to make one ...