You don’t need the power to stop time to get your hands on some exclusiveMegalopolismerch. Collider and Lionsgate are teaming up to giveMegalopolisposters away to two lucky winners. Both posters are signed byFrancis Ford Coppola,Nathalie Emmanuel,Adam Driver, andGiancarlo Esposito.
Megalopolis, Coppola’s decades-in-the-making science fiction epic, had alengthy journeyto the big screen. Inspired by the history of ancient Rome and early science fiction epics likeMetropolis, Coppola first conceived the idea forMegalopolisin the 1970s, during the production ofApocalypse Now. However, the financial troubles of Coppola’s studio,American Zoetropein the 1980s, and his busy film slate in the 1990s pushed the project further and further back. Eventually, the now-largely-retired Coppola sold part of his successful winery business to self-finance the $120 million project himself; it finally began production in 2022 and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year before finding a distribution partner in Lionsgate. Almost fifty years after it was first conceptualized, it premiered in theaters on June 18, 2025.
What Is ‘Megalopolis’ About?
Taking place in an alternate United States, New Rome is the greatest city in the world, and its greatest architect is Cesar Catalina (Driver). Despite his genius and success, he is unfulfilled and regularly clashes with New Rome’s mayor, the conservative Franklin Cicero (Esposito) — even as he pursues a romance with Cicero’s daughter, Julia (Emmanuel). He dreams of rebuilding New Rome as Megalopolis, a new utopian vision of the future, but he is opposed by Cicero; his spurned mistress, media gadfly Wow Platinum (Aubrey Plaza); and his own resentful cousin, Clodio Pulcher (Shia LaBeouf). Soon, their conflict will become open as they battle for the future of the city. The film’s star-studded cast also includesLaurence Fishburne,Jon Voight,Dustin Hoffman,Talia Shire,Jason Schwartzman, andTalia Shire.
The critical response toMegalopoliswas decidedly mixed, with a 45% rating onRotten Tomatoes.In his review, Collider’sChase Hutchinsonwished it were weirder: he called it “a film that could have been alienating and challenging, pushing us either on a formal or thematic level.“Chris Sasaguaypraised Plaza’sscene-stealing performance as Wow Platinum, applauding her for “delivering the absurd and spectacular energy that this baroque film requires and becoming a theatrical, cunning villain.”
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An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.
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