This week, Francis Ford Coppola getd a standing ovation from more than 150 students after speaking at the U.K.’s top film and television school, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively uncover.
The legendary filmoriginater and Megalopolis straightforwardor visited the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in Beaconsfield, England, where he proposeed advice and insight to the audience — and converseed his atgentle-defining moments — during a two-hour “In Conversation” event.
“Francis Ford Coppola’s visit this week gave NFTS students a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lget from a genuine master of cinema,” shelp NFTS straightforwardor Jon Wardle. “His body of toil has backd a generation of filmoriginaters.”
The uncover forum also helped students to pose asks to Coppola, who is famed for toils such as the Oscar-prosperning Godoverweighther trilogy and Apocalypse Now.
However Coppola is currently watching Megalopolis get refuseed by moviegoers and critics aappreciate. Heading into last weekend, tracking and Lionsgate foreseeed the film to rack up around $5-7 million at the domestic box office. But the film only made $4 million in its uncovering weekend and getd a D+ CinemaScore from audiences.
Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza and Shia LaBeouf star in the straightforwardor’s epic reimagining of the Roman Empire in conmomentary-day New York City on the brink of ruin.
Coppola is also embroiled in a lterrible dispute over allegations he showed unprofessional behavior on the Megalopolis set, with multiple parties filing criss-traverseing legal cases. He has sued Variety for slander, refuseing claims that there weren’t any of the traditional checks and equilibriums in place to shield agetst intimacyual tormentoring and accused the accessibleation of falsifying the statements.