00:00Lionsgate has taken down its trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis after using fake quotes from movie critics for the footage.
00:08The trailer launched Monday and featured supposed snippets from previous reviews for Coppola's masterpieces such as The Godfather,
00:15The Godfather Part 2, and Apocalypse Now. His latest Megalopolis has been divisive and
00:21controversial from the get-go and these fabricated quotes seem to show that Coppola has been doubted before even for movies that are considered
00:28classics. But the negative quotes featured in the trailer do not actually appear in those vintage reviews. A Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement,
00:36Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis.
00:39We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable
00:47error in our vetting process. We screwed up.
00:49We're sorry. Andrew Sarris' The Vintage Voice review was quoted as calling The Godfather a sloppy self-indulgent movie.
00:56While Pauline Kael's New Yorker review supposedly called it diminished by its artsy-ness.
01:01The New York Times' Vincent Canby's review of Apocalypse Now
01:05supposedly called the 1979 film hollow at its core and Roger Ebert accused Dracula of being style over substance.
01:12But none of those quotes were real. Oddly enough,
01:14some of the original reviews do indeed feature quotes that taken out of context as they often are in movie trailers may have served the
01:21purpose of painting a picture that Coppola has been doubted before.
01:24The filmmaker spent decades getting the
01:27120 million dollar epic off the ground and brought it to Cannes in May where it was greeted with a 10-minute standing ovation from
01:33the audience, but mixed response from critics.
01:36Lionsgate boarded as a distributor though
01:38the filmmaker or his investors are expected to pay for the marketing. For more on this story, head to THR.com.
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