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Cannes Chief Thierry Fremaux Addresses Francis Ford Coppola’s Pending Distribution Deal for ‘Megalopolis’: ‘We Love Improvisation’
Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux addresses the pending distribution deal for 'Megalopolis,' as well as the competition's gender imbalance.
Following the press conference unveiling the Cannes lineup, festival director Thierry Fremaux addressed a few hot topics, including Francis Ford Coppola’s 135-minute epic “ Megalopolis,” which doesn’t yet have a distribution deal. While “ Megalopolis,” Coppola’s self-produced $120 million opus starring Adam Driver, has been selected to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, it doesn’t have a distribution deal in France. At this point, most major independent distributors in France have told Variety that they haven’t seen the film or been in touch with Coppola’s lawyer, Barry Hirsch, who hosted an Imax screening for buyers a couple weeks ago and is actively chasing a deal, potentially with a studio or streamer.
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