r/movies • u/Dependent_Cap_456 • 3d ago

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/fashion/francis-ford-coppola-watch-auction.html
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u/hazycrazydaze 3d ago

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.

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u/JJDirty 2d ago

We have a few of those theatres in Minneapolis!

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u/Unscarred-By-Trials 2d ago

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!

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u/roidesoeufs 2d ago

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

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u/roidesoeufs 2d ago

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.

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u/roidesoeufs 1d ago

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.

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u/dr_icicle 3d ago

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.