Ahead of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic “Megalopolis” has secured distribution in five major European territories. The film locked distribution from Constantin Film for Germany and all German-speaking territories, including Switzerland and Austria; Eagle Pictures for Italy; Tripictures for Spain; and Entertainment Film Distributors Limited for the United Kingdom. Le Pacte for France was announced last week.
Written, produced and directed by Coppola, the film is a decades-long passion project for the “Godfather” director. He self-financed the epic himself, which is described as a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. Adam Driver plays a genius artist who envisions a utopian future for the city of New Rome, while Giancarlo Esposito is the city’s mayor who remains committed to a regressive status quo.