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Lionsgate taken down its trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' after using fake movie critics quotes for the footage. The trailer launched Monday and featured supposed snippets from previous reviews for Coppola masterpieces such as 'The Godfather,' 'The Godfather Part II' and 'Apocalypse Now.' His latest, 'Megalopolis,' has been divisive and controversial from the get-go, and these fabricated quotes seemed to show that Coppola has been doubted before, even for movies that are considered classics.

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00:00Lionsgate has taken down its trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis

00:04after 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

00:14such as The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now.

00:18His latest Megalopolis has been divisive and controversial from the get-go,

00:22and these fabricated quotes seem to show that Coppola has been doubted before,

00:26even for movies that are considered classics.

00:28But the negative quotes featured in the trailer do not actually appear in those vintage reviews.

00:34A Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement,

00:36Andrew 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 artsiness.

01:01The New York Times' Vincent Canby's review of Apocalypse Now supposedly called the 1979 film hollow at its core,

01:08and Roger Ebert accused Dracula of being style over substance.

01:12But none of those quotes were real.

01:14Oddly enough, some of the original reviews do indeed feature quotes that,

01:18taken out of context as they often are in movie trailers,

01:20may have served the purpose of painting a picture that Coppola has been doubted before.

01:24The filmmaker spent decades getting the $120 million epic off the ground and brought it to Cannes in May,

01:31where it was greeted with a 10-minute standing ovation from the audience, but mixed response from critics.

01:36Lionsgate boarded as a distributor, though the filmmaker or his investors are expected to pay for the marketing.

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