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Why Francis Ford Coppola Risked $120 Million of His Wealth Funding a Movie: 'Money Doesn't Matter'
Director Francis Ford Coppola said he 'never cared about money' while making his new film 'Megalopolis' using about $120 million of his own personal fortune. 'The money doesn't matter," he said.
Coppola shared his daughter Sofia, 53, and son Roman, a second unit director on Megalopolis, with his late wife Eleanor, who died at 87 in April. Giancarlo Esposito, Laurence Fishburne, Nathalie Emmanuel, Director Francis Ford Coppola, Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza on May 17, 2024. "A genius artist with the power to stop time fights an arch-conservative mayor to save the dying modern world and inspire hope," reads a longline for the film, which notes it is "told as a Roman Epic."
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