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Where is there any source that talks about him not wanting to deal with DEI crap? Is that just fanfic? Unless there's actually something out there it seems more likely he wanted to make a super weird ass movie and nobody wanted to lose a ton of money on it. 120 million for essentially an art house film is pretty crazy. The guy hasn't made anything worth watching for nearly 30 years.
 
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Getting funded isn't easy to do. Spielberg himself said he has a hard time scaring up cash.

And yet there are people like Kathleen Kennedy who still has a job after leaving billion dollar holes all over the place.
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There is a massive well of money ready to fund the "fixing" of society and eventually usher in the One World Government of Commiefornia.

Good luck getting funded if you have nothing to do with all of that stuff. It's kinda like how Chris Pratt got bashed as a "Trumper" just because he wouldn't join in with the other Marvel stars making political statements. Guy didn't even actually say or do anything political (he's religious, so he probably is a Trump voter). Simply not participating in the groupthink was enough for him to get bashed all over the place. This movie is probably a similar deal, it's gonna have an uphill battle to get any funding/distribution/positive coverage just because it's not part of the hivemind and thus could deviate from the script slightly or say something that isn't supposed to be said or whatever else the case may be. Even if it says nothing. Which is more likely the case. It looks like an oddball film to say the least.
 
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I might have to go see this in the theater. A low RT "critic" score can be a good thing in the current era.
 
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DickTrickle said:
Where is there any source that talks about him not wanting to deal with DEI crap? Is that just fanfic? Unless there's actually something out there it seems more likely he wanted to make a super weird ass movie and nobody wanted to lose a ton of money on it. 120 million for essentially an art house film is pretty crazy. The guy hasn't made anything worth watching for nearly 30 years.
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Fanfic.... somehow an 80+ director, that has not made a movie in more than a decade and whose last few films have been mixed bags at best, had trouble to finance an ambitious movie. Shocking! That said, he attracted a bunch of big names for his cast, so it's still a bit surprising that he had to finance it himself.
 
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DickTrickle

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Fanfic.... somehow an 80+ director, that has not made a movie in more than a decade and whose last few films have been mixed bags at best, had trouble to finance an ambitious movie. Shocking! That said, he attracted a bunch of big names for his cast, so it's still a bit surprising that he had to finance it himself.
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Some well known names... none that I think are box office draws. A more star studded megaflop like Babylon wasn't so long ago in the Hollywood memory, so I could hardly blame any distributor not wanting to commit $100 million in marketing like he wants, let alone have helped finance it.
 
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DickTrickle said:
Where is there any source that talks about him not wanting to deal with DEI crap? Is that just fanfic? Unless there's actually something out there it seems more likely he wanted to make a super weird ass movie and nobody wanted to lose a ton of money on it. 120 million for essentially an art house film is pretty crazy. The guy hasn't made anything worth watching for nearly 30 years.
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Who knows. I looked at his filmography, and you are right. The man hasn't done anything for a long time.
 
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I read a lot of hate he is getting is for making the film outside of Hollywood norms. Apparently he didn't want to deal with the DEI crap.
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Probably why it couldn't secure the 100m marketing spend he wanted.
 
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jayrebb said:
Probably why it couldn't secure the 100m marketing spend he wanted.
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Cinema legend Francis Ford Coppola was so concerned about his upcoming Megalopolis being labeled woke that he made sure to hire “canceled” actors.

In an interview with the disgraced, far-left Rolling Stone, the 85-year-old multiple Oscar winner said:

What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers. The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another. There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive. But we were all working on one film together. That was interesting, I thought.
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He is speaking, of course, of Oscar-winner Jon Voight, Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman, and Oscar nominee Shia LeBeouf.

Voight is blacklisted for supporting Trump.

Hoffman is blacklisted for one unfounded allegation of misconduct some 40 years ago.

LeBeouf is blacklisted for an unfounded allegation of abuse and for becoming a Christian.

Coppola said of LeBeouf:

You could see the actors find the characters. Shia [LaBeouf] really took to it. I had no experience working with him prior to this, but he deliberately sets up a tension between himself and the director to an extreme degree. He reminds me of Dennis Hopper, who would do something similar, and then you’d say, “Just go do anything,” and then they go off and do something brilliant.
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LeBeouf is an actor I ridiculed mercilessly for years, but he has grown into a legitimate talent. And I don’t doubt Coppola’s description of the tension and edge he brings to a role.

Let’s return to the most important thing Coppola said: “What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,” he explained. “The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another. There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive.”

He continued, “But we were all working on one film together. That was interesting, I thought.”

Coppola is no right-winger, but he is 1) an old-fashioned tolerant liberal, 2) an artist from head to toe, and most importantly, 3) a man spending $100 million of his own money.

You see, unlike these multinational entertainment corporations and multimillionaire affirmative action hires like Lucasfilm chiefstress Kathleen Kennedy, Coppola needs to worry about the bottom line and making a profit. And a wise man who has been in the business of movies for some 60 years, he knows woke equals box office death. So here he is, wisely and proactively telling the movie-going public he has not poisoned his dream project with woke lectures.
 
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LeBeouf is blacklisted for an unfounded allegation of abuse and for becoming a Christian.

for becoming a Christian. - WTF?
 
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Seeing Grace Vanderwaal go from adorable AGT winner to 'probably let herself get defiled by slimy jews to break into the movie industry' makes me sad.
 
Harshaw

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Seeing Grace Vanderwaal go from adorable AGT winner to 'probably let herself get defiled by slimy jews to break into the movie industry' makes me sad.
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Umm she's been part of Hollywood since she won AGT. Thinking the music industry is any better is being naive.
 
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