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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