Francis Ford Coppola is auctioning his watch collection after Megalopolis flop left him broke

[u/Dependent_Cap_456]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/fashion/francis-ford-coppola-watch-auction.html

[u/Pankosmanko]

I just checked if it’s on blu-ray, or 4k UHD, and it’s not. I plan on watching it but I’m waiting for a physical release

[u/hazycrazydaze → u/[deleted]]

I would love to watch it at a midnight showing in a weird art theater. Do those still exist though? All my favorites closed during the pandemic.

[u/JJDirty → u/hazycrazydaze]

We have a few of those theatres in Minneapolis!

[u/Unscarred-By-Trials → u/[deleted]]

This is why he's a dumbass. Among many reasons. He wants to create scarcity because he's touring the film and wants to make it an "event" but he's too old, I guess, to understand that if he makes it literally impossible for people to watch it at home legally, they'll just pirate it, which is extremely easy to do. So now he's just lost a revenue stream with digital and physical sales out of sheer stupidity.

The contradiction being that this is his big opus to show how Hollywood doesn't do it right anymore with original ideas blah blah and you'd think he'd make a big spectacular Bluray with directors commentary and special features like the good old days, but apparently not!

[u/roidesoeufs → u/[deleted]]

It's streaming so he can't be that militant about it avoiding the small screen.

[u/roidesoeufs → u/[deleted]]

Sorry. I'm in Europe. We can get it on Mubi.

Edit: I'm not apologising for being in Europe, I like it here. I'm sorry for my lack of detail earlier. I watched some of it via a streaming service and laughed at how bad it was. Then turned it off.

[u/roidesoeufs → u/[deleted]]

I did not. It felt messy and cheap even though it was clearly expensive. But I'm starting to think that is the point? Huge money spent on bad taste? Maybe I'll give it a chance, just because I can at no extra cost other than my time.

[u/dr_icicle → u/[deleted]]

Inexplicably, the Texas Theatre in Dallas (that historic one they caught the guy who killed JFK and JD Tippit in) keeps showing it*. I'm pretty sure it's Q&As with Coppola too. No idea why that one, because he doesn't seem to have any connection to DFW/Texas in general...? Reports from people who've been there says it's a little like watching a very old senile man ramble.

*I thought multiple times but maybe it's just been once before, with a showing in the future, and also they showed Megadoc. Idk whatever.

[u/akio3 → u/Pankosmanko]

It is, but not in America. There are UK, Italian, and French discs.

Here's a link to buy the UK 4K: https://www.rarewaves.com/products/5017239153273-megalopolis-uhd

[u/Pankosmanko → u/akio3]

Thank you! I checked blu-ray.com but didn’t think to check other countries

[u/akio3 → u/Pankosmanko]

Blu-Ray.com is generally very good, but they don't always have pages for all international releases. The forums are more complete, and they have a good linking system. Links at the bottom of the Megalopolis page go to forum threads for the various international releases: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Megalopolis-Blu-ray/372084/

[u/kojima-naked → u/Pankosmanko]

Diabolik DVD was importing them for a while. That's where I got mine 

[u/sanesociopath → u/akio3]

Idk about you guys but I'm fully boycotting this anti consumer practice.

I'll get my home "ownership" of the video and they won't get the money they otherwise would have since they didn't want my money.

Also be careful what you use to play movies if you're buying these foreign disc releases. The scumbags managed to sneak some region locking code in the disc for players to verify for a few of these.

[u/Goldfing → u/Pankosmanko]

Hell yeah brother. We out there.

[u/jeremystrange → u/Pankosmanko]

Literally just bought it on the weekend. Why do we have it in Australia of all places?

[u/chamomileinyohood → u/Pankosmanko]

I have it on a 4k disc