Movie Brats George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola are heading to Cannes
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George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, two old friends whose careers have long intersected. Coppola, of course, got George Lucas his start in the business, and Lucas dropped Apocalypse Now to make Star Wars. Lucas sits on a mountain of cash after selling Star Wars to Disney for a cool $4 billion. Coppola sold his winery to make a movie that no studio wants to distribute and found “sadness” in his protege’s success. Now, they’re both gearing up to take the Cannes Film Festival by storm—albeit for...

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