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Francis Ford Coppola says his sci-fi saga 'Megalopolis' is being panned because Hollywood doesn't like rule-breakers

Francis Ford Coppola at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival.Lionel Hahn/Getty ImagesFrancis Ford Coppola's self-funded sci-fi saga "Megalopolis" has premiered at Cannes Film Festival.Reviews have been mixed, with some critics panning the film as a failure.Responding to the reaction, Coppola has said the film "doesn't play by Hollywood's current rules."Francis Ford Coppola's self-funded sci-fi saga Megalopolis premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week, giving a select group of worldwide press a chance to finally view the project that the legendary director has spent almost half a century crafting.Described in its official logline as a "Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America," the film stars Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, and Laurence Fishburne, as well as Coppola's granddaughter, Romy Mars, daughter of filmmaker Sofia Coppola.It reportedly received a seven-minute standing ovation from the Cannes audience that featured a mix of boos and cheers, perhaps summing up feelings toward Coppola's supposed magnum opus, which has yet to find a US distributor and has been marred by bad press in recent weeks.Coppola has responded to the negative reaction, expressing his belief that detractors have conspired against him because the film "doesn't play by Hollywood's current rules."Referring to the anonymous sources who dismissed the film as potentially unmarketable and indulgent following an industry screening in late March, he told Air Mail: "If you look at each and every mixed or negative notice it's always something heard from an unknown source.""I really feel it's unpardonable to attack a movie because it doesn't play by Hollywood's current rules, by quoting unnamed sources who probably weren't at the screening and may not exist.""It's a cold, meaningless business," he added."You'd think, Why would anyone want not to root for Megalopolis?

 

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