Say what you will about Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” — God knows I certainly did — but his $120 million, critically reviled box office disaster dared to ask some important questions. Questions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bibbiani returns to the excesses that Figgis documents several times in his review, noting that the catering budget alone amounted ...

The story of how Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis came to be a fly on the wall as Francis Ford Coppola filmed his controversial epic "Megalopolis" begins on Oscar night, 1996. Figgis first met the ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

The 'Leaving Las Vegas' director takes us behind the scenes of the chaotic $120-million self-financed shoot, which was both agony and ecstasy for those involved. By Jordan Mintzer There are many stars ...

Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Laurence Fishburne, and Robert De Niro appear in the documentary that will debut at Venice 2025. After receiving Academy Awards and becoming an icon of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At one point in “Megadoc,” a documentary about the production of Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious, self-financed “Megalopolis,” ...

Does Francis Ford Coppola thrive on chaos? Not exactly, the director claims in the new trailer for Megadoc, Mike Figgis’ behind-the-scenes documentary on the tumultuous making of Coppola’s 2024 film ...

This review was originally published on August 27, 2025 out of the Venice Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to Megadoc’s theatrical release. He uses that as a creative force, too.

In 1991, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse took viewers behind the scenes of one of the most troubled, difficult film productions of all time, as Francis Ford Coppola attempted to make one ...