Francis Ford Coppola says he’s “thrilled” to just accept his Razzie Award nominations for his loaded field workplace bomb/longtime ardour challenge Megalopolis.
The Razzie awards have a good time the 12 months’s worst flops and duds within the movie circuit, with Megalopolis garnering 5 nominations this 12 months — together with Worst Image, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Director. The Razzies gained’t announce their winners till March 1st, however Coppola is already pleased with his Razzies marketing campaign.
On Instagram, the director wrote a prolonged assertion embracing the awards’ contrarian ethos. “I’m thrilled to just accept the Razzie award in so many vital classes for @megalopolisfilm, and for the distinctive honor of being nominated because the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst image at a time when so few have the braveness to go towards the prevailing tendencies of latest moviemaking!,” he wrote.
He continued, railing towards the movie business, critics, and the field workplace as a metric of success: “On this wreck of a world at this time, the place ART is given scores as if it have been skilled wrestling, I selected to NOT observe the gutless guidelines laid down by an business so fearful of danger that regardless of the big pool of younger expertise at its disposal, could not create footage that will probably be related and alive 50 years from now.”
Coppola then shouted out certainly one of his heroes, Jacques Tati, and seemingly in contrast the industrial failure (and finally, essential success) of the French director’s Playtime to his personal Megalopolis. “What an honor to face alongside an amazing and brave filmmaker like Jacques Tati who impoverished himself utterly to make certainly one of cinema’s most beloved failures, PLAYTIME! My honest due to all my good colleagues who joined me to make our murals, MEGALOPOLIS, and allow us to remind ourselves us that box-office is simply about cash, and like battle, stupidity and politics has no true place in our future.” See Coppola’s Instagram submit beneath.
Whereas time will inform if Megalopolis will certainly grow to be a future basic, it’s nonetheless a little bit of a tricky promote. Coppola invested $120 million of his personal cash into the manufacturing (which has solely earned $14 million on the field workplace), and that’s not even taking into consideration the assorted scandals that went into making this movie. Coppola purposely solid “canceled” actors like Shia LeBoeuf, claiming he didn’t need the movie to be a “woke Hollywood manufacturing” (no matter meaning). There have been additionally controversies with Coppola’s allegedly inappropriate and unprofessional habits in the direction of extras on set.
Then, Lionsgate used a bevy of faux, AI-generated quotes within the Megalopolis trailer that positioned legendary movie critics as longtime Coppola haters; Lionsgate then rapidly pulled the trailer and apologized for for “screwing up.” Now, with Coppola embracing his Razzie noms, he lastly will get to be the critically maligned underdog determine that he so desperately wished Megalopolis to capitalize on.
Additionally nominated for a number of Razzies this 12 months are Madame Internet, Joker: Folie a Deux, Reagan, and Borderlands, who’ve equally embraced the unhealthy press as its personal advertising software. Revisit our authentic evaluate of Megalopolis, which we described as “a cautionary story.”