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2 days ago · Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola has an epic sci-fi coming to cinemas at the end of this summer, titled Megalopolis.. Completely funded by Coppola via his production company American Zoetrope - the budget came to $120 million - the first embers of Megalopolis date back to the late 1970s, with the filmmaker looking to transport the fall of Rome to a futuristic New York City.
1 day ago · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
2 days ago · So, with only three film schools of note in the USA, a group of young filmmakers moved to San Francisco and that’s also were Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas (yep!) started their own film production company: American Zoetrope.
5 days ago · United Artists / American Zoetrope An opening scene sets the tone for a movie, capturing the audience’s attention and making us wonder what we are about to watch.
1 day ago · Nine years later, he found himself in Francis Ford Coppola's office at American Zoetrope, selling his script for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Related The 10 Best Portrayals of Frankenstein's Monster
2 days ago · Following a short section on Powell’s late-in-life rediscovery by cineastes (home movie footage of the director working at Coppola’s short-lived American Zoetrope studio shows him clearly giddy with his good fortune), Made in England takes viewers not only through his body of work but their connections to the narrator’s films.
4 days ago · Lucas’ film was reportedly inspired by his student short film while he was at USC. The film was produced by Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Productions.
