Francis Ford Coppola valgte at droppe den traditionelle Hollywood-finansieringsmodel i forhold til hans excentriske drømmeprojekt, Megalopolis. Han spenderede nemlig noget der ligner $120 millioner af sine egne penge på filmen.
Derfor kommer det ikke som nogen overraskelse, at han ikke har nogen rosende ord til overs for de store Hollywood-studier, og branchen generelt. I et interview med Deadline siger han dette:
"I fear that the film industry has become more of a matter of people being hired to meet their debt obligations because the studios are in great, great debt. And the job is not so much to make good movies, the job is to make sure they pay their debt obligations. Obviously, new companies like Amazon and Apple and Microsoft, they have plenty of money, so it might be that the studios we knew for so long, some wonderful ones, are not to be here in the future anymore."
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