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  • People filling theatres to see ‘Oppenheimer’, ‘Barbie’ victory for cinema: Francis Ford Coppola 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Veteran filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola says he’s glad to see audiences flocking to cinema halls to observe “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”, terming the beneficial response to the 2 big-ticket releases “a victory for cinema”.

    Coppola mentioned this in response to followers’ questions on his Instagram Stories, asking if he had watched Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” by Christopher Nolan but.

    “I have yet to see them, but the fact that people are filling big theatres to see them and that they are neither sequels nor prequels, no number attached to them, meaning they are true one-offs, is a victory for cinema,” the 84-year-old director mentioned.

    According to leisure web site The Hollywood Reporter, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have been on a roll since their opening weekend from July 21-23.

    Gerwig’s movie not solely had one of many prime openings because the COVID-19 pandemic however “Barbie” additionally broke the file for the largest opening for a feminine director.

    As far as Nolan’s film is anxious, “Oppenheimer” ranked because the third-biggest opening ever for a biographical movie in North America, the outlet said.

    While Coppola beforehand expressed his dislike for franchises, he was behind “The Godfather” movie trilogy, which spawned from Mario Puzo’s best-selling 1969 novel.

    When one other social media consumer requested him about the way forward for cinema, the director mentioned he had large hopes for the movie exhibition trade.

    “My hunch is that we’re on the verge of a golden age.

    Wonderful and illuminating cinema seen in giant theatres,” he mentioned.

    LOS ANGELES: Veteran filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola says he’s glad to see audiences flocking to cinema halls to observe “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”, terming the beneficial response to the 2 big-ticket releases “a victory for cinema”.

    Coppola mentioned this in response to followers’ questions on his Instagram Stories, asking if he had watched Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” by Christopher Nolan but.

    “I have yet to see them, but the fact that people are filling big theatres to see them and that they are neither sequels nor prequels, no number attached to them, meaning they are true one-offs, is a victory for cinema,” the 84-year-old director mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    According to leisure web site The Hollywood Reporter, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have been on a roll since their opening weekend from July 21-23.

    Gerwig’s movie not solely had one of many prime openings because the COVID-19 pandemic however “Barbie” additionally broke the file for the largest opening for a feminine director.

    As far as Nolan’s film is anxious, “Oppenheimer” ranked because the third-biggest opening ever for a biographical movie in North America, the outlet said.

    While Coppola beforehand expressed his dislike for franchises, he was behind “The Godfather” movie trilogy, which spawned from Mario Puzo’s best-selling 1969 novel.

    When one other social media consumer requested him about the way forward for cinema, the director mentioned he had large hopes for the movie exhibition trade.

    “My hunch is that we’re on the verge of a golden age.

    Wonderful and illuminating cinema seen in giant theatres,” he mentioned.

  • Accused of bodily abuse, Shia LaBeouf joins Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

    Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has added actors Shia LaBeouf and Jason Schwartzman to the ensemble forged of his upcoming movie Megalopolis.

    The movie already has actors Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza on board.

    Veteran actor Talia Shire, Coppola’s sister who additionally featured within the filmmaker’s critically-acclaimed The Godfather films, has additionally joined the forged of the brand new movie together with Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter and James Remar.

    Coppola is directing the independently financed movie, his ardour venture, from his personal script.

    The filmmaker has described the venture as a up to date drama wherein “the fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius and conflicted love”.

    The movie, mounted on a funds simply south of $100 million, will start manufacturing later this 12 months.

  • An provide you possibly can’t refuse

    Express News Service

    “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” This is one amongst many, many fashionable quotes from The Godfather. It’s a line that may be mentioned about movies too. The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and primarily based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the identical title, was launched on March 14, 1972, and now, 50 years later, it continues to develop nice. Look at how this movie continues to encourage era after era of filmmakers the world over, who’ve provide you with completely different iterations of the unique. If ever there was a movie worthy of the ‘classic’ tag, this right here is it. Here are modern filmmakers talking on why this 50-year-old movie endures and continues to gasoline cinema the world over.

    For Abhinav Sunder Nayak, the editor of movies like Uriyadi and director of the upcoming movie Mukundan Unni Associates, lastly getting to look at The Godfather on the massive display screen would be the realisation of a childhood dream. “I first noticed The Godfather within the early 2000s. My dad, an enormous fan of the primary two movies, who had seen it at Kozhikode’s Crown Cinema upon its launch, saved saying that these movies needs to be skilled on the massive display screen.

    When we purchased a DVD participant for the primary time, this was among the many first movies we watched. And but, I may see that the CRT monitor didn’t fairly do justice. It even received me questioning what the massive cope with this movie was.” In reality, Abhinav went on to name the movie ‘overrated’. “I watched it again after years, out of sheer curiosity, and this time, I was stunned. I found it to be an extraordinary piece of cinema. With maturity and more knowledge about filmmaking, my appreciation had grown. I later rewatched The Godfather on a Blu-ray of the remastered version. I have since seen this film at least 10 times by now. I am stoked about seeing the latest 4K Remastered version.”

    Rocky director Arun Matheswaran wasn’t conscious of the re-release after we reached out to him. “I am definitely going to catch it!” he started. “The Godfather is the bible for gangster cinema. It has inspired so many stories and films including my own film, Rocky. The introduction of Mani Maran (Bharathiraja) in my debut film is inspired by the first scene of The Godfather, where a grieving father pleads to avenge the wrong done to his daughter.” Arun says he realized the artwork of framing from this movie. “Notice Kay Adams (Diane Keaton), Michael Corleone’s wife, in the last shot of the film. As Michale becomes the don and men kiss his hand, Kay is outside trying to take a peek into their world. She stays an outsider. The film also serves as a character study—be it Vito Corleone or the impulsive first son… It’s an extraordinary lesson.”

    For Malayalam filmmaker and screenwriter Salil V, the re-release is an important day as that is the primary time he will likely be seeing the movie! “I have read the book, of course, but not seen the film despite having the DVD with me. The novel is fantastic and I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing this supposed marvel of filmmaking on a huge screen for the first time. I hope that the theatres bring out the sequels too soon.”

    For Telugu filmmaker Sudhir Varma, the director of movies like Ranarangam and Dohchay, even getting the possibility to talk about The Godfather for its fiftieth anniversary is an honour. The Swamy Ra Ra director is vocal about how he will get impressed by classics: “There are numerous remakes and inspirations of The Godfather-like Nayakan and the Sarkar series. My own film, Ranarangam, is part of this list. The visuals of The Godfather engrossed me the first time. There isn’t a single frame that’s boring. It was a visual spectacle made in the 70s without modern tech, and I daresay, no film has or will match it ever. Also, while numerous films get adapted from books, they usually don’t live up to the original work. I have read the book, and I think the film has outdone the novel.”

    Echoing Sudhir Varma, Anjum Rajabali, screenwriter of Raajneeti, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Toofan, says, “There are few instances where the film is equal to, if not better, than the book, and that is the case with Coppola’s The Godfather. I’ve taught the film as a pristine example of adaptation and structuring. The book, a sprawling epic, establishes a lot about Vito Corleone’s childhood, his relationships, his psychology and all of that. Whereas in the film, his son Michael is the protagonist. And as Michael grows in power, parallelly his moral decline begins. His paranoia and isolation increase, breaching the family values his father held dear. This is captured beautifully in the holy-profane juxtaposition in the baptism sequence. Michael is a classic archetype that goes back to Arjun in the Mahabharata. Structurally, too, the film is masterful. All these factors make the movie such a fine cinematic as well as a literary achievement.”

    The Godfather will be caught in restricted PVR theatres this weekend.

    (With inputs from Sajin Shrijith and Shilajit Mitra)
     

  • Limited re-release to mark ‘The Godfather’ Fiftieth anniversary

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: The trailer for the Fiftieth-anniversary restricted theatrical re-release of Francis Ford Coppola’s traditional ‘The Godfather’, starring Marlon Brando and a number of the best actors of all instances, “is, if nothing else, a reminder that the great mobster movie unleashed some of the most memorable lines of dialogue in Hollywood history,” experiences ‘Deadline’.The one that’s most frequently repeated: “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Only Brando might have made this line sound so sinister. Or the traces delivered by a younger Al Pacino: “Don’t ever take sides against the family again.” And to Diane Keaton’s character: “Don’t ask me about my business, Kay.”Paramount Pictures launched the brand new trailer on Thursday (U.S. Pacific Time) with the announcement that the movie can have a restricted Fiftieth-anniversary theatrical launch in Dolby Vision starting from February 25, solely in Dolby Cinema at AMC Theatres within the U.S. and worldwide territories around the globe.An announcement from Paramount Pictures introducing the trailer reads: “No movie changed Hollywood more than The Godfather. From the bestselling novel by Mario Puzo to box-office blockbuster, its influential legacy endures to this day.”The assertion notes: “Starring Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning performance as the patriarch of the Corleone family, this first instalment in the three-movie saga paints a dramatic portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in America.And it concludes by reminding the film’s diehard aficionados: “Balanced between the Corleone’s dedication to household and the ugly crime enterprise during which they’re engaged, it options career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall. This searing and sensible masterpiece garnered 10 Academy Award nominations, and gained three, together with Best Picture.”According to ‘Deadline’, all three movies within the trilogy — ‘The Godfather’, ‘The Godfather: Part II’, and Coppola’s not too long ago re-edited model of the ultimate movie, ‘Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone’ — have been restored underneath his path and will probably be made obtainable on 4K Ultra HD and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the primary time ever on March 22.

  • Carrie Fisher, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael B Jordan amongst 2022 Walk of Fame honourees

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actors Salma Hayek, Carrie Fisher, Willem Dafoe, Michael B Jordon, filmmaker Franchis Ford Coppola and rapper Nipsey Hussle in addition to band Black Eyed Peas can be getting their very own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022.

    The choices have been introduced through the Walk of Fame Facebook web page on Thursday night time.

    The Walk of Fame Class of 2022 consists of Hollywood’s widespread names from movement footage, tv, recording, radio, dwell theatre and sports activities leisure.

    Others who’re a part of the movement image class are Macaulay Culkin, Helen Hunt, Regina King, Ray Liotta, Ewan McGregor, Adam McKay, Jason Momoa, James Hong and Tessa Thompson.

    TV honourees embrace Byron Allen, Greg Berlanti, Ricky Gervais, Peter Krause, Bob Odenkirk, Holly Robinson Peete, Norman Reedus, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jean Smart, Ming-Na Wen and Kenan Thompson.

    George Clinton, Jr, Ashanti Douglas, Avril Lavigne, Los Huracanes del Norte and Martha Reeves are becoming a member of the Walk of Fame below the music class, From theatre business Patti Lupone, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.

    and Angelica Vale are a part of Class of 2022, whereas Richard Blade is the one honouree from radio.

    Michael Strahan can be honoured within the latest class of sports activities leisure.

    The recipients have been chosen by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s Walk of Fame choice panel.

    “The panel did a tremendous job selecting these very proficient individuals.

    We cannot wait to see every honoree’s response as they understand that they’re changing into part of Hollywood’s historical past with the revealing of their star on the world’s most well-known walkway,” stated Chair and Walk of Famer Ellen Ok.

  • Dan Fogler to play Francis Ford Coppola in ‘The Godfather’ making sequence

    By IANS
    Actor Dan Fogler is ready to play The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola in Paramount’s restricted sequence The Offer, which revolves across the making of the studio’s 1972 basic. Meanwhile, Giovanni Ribisi has been forged as infamous crime boss Joe Colombo, whereas Colin Hanks will play Barry Lapidus, a strong Gulf & Western govt of the studio.

    Miles Teller will play The Godfather producer Albert S Ruddy, and the sequence is advised from his perspective as he assembles the whole lot for the gangster drama, which might go on to win Best Picture.

    Matthew Goode of Watchmen fame was lately forged as Hollywood legend Robert Evans, who was working as a Paramount govt on the time of the shoot.

    The Offer is a 10-episode sequence hailing from Paramount Television Studios and writers Nikki Toscano of Hunters fame and Michael Tolkin Known for The Player. Dexter Fletcher of Rocketman fame will direct the primary and final block of the sequence and govt produce alongside showrunner Toscano in addition to Tolkin, Ruddy, Teller and Leslie Greif (Hatfields & McCoys). Production of the sequence is predicted to start out within the coming weeks.