Francis Ford Coppola sold his winery and self-funded his decades-in-the-making dream epic Megalopolis because nobody else wanted to make it. So is it a big surprise that nobody wants to distribute it, either? The industry has become notoriously skittish about taking a risk on big swing original projects (which is why he had to self-fund in the first place). That would be true even if the project were a clear-cut crowd-pleaser, but early Megalopolis reactions have been mixed to the extreme. Yet... Read this story
