Francis Ford Coppola
Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Big Willy Style! Who Didn't Go to the Movies This Weekend?
The lethal combination of Will Smith in the tentpole apocalypse-drama I Am Legend (No. 1), the nasty weather enveloping the Northeast, and nothing good happening on TV (which translates to nothing good saved for weekend DVR watching) created one of the healthiest weekends for Hollywood in some time. In Manhattan, who didn’t go to the movies? Each movie, save one, Enchanted (No. 8), averaged over the all-important $10,000 waterline, not to mention the behemoth $1 million-plus take of Legend, which broke the national box office record for a December opening with $76 million in receipts. Yowza! read more »
Romanian Holiday
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Running Time 124 minutes
Written and directed by Francis Coppola read more »
Napa Valley Nap
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Running Time 124 minutes
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola read more »
Francis Ford Coppola, 'Tortured and Stumped,' Pumps Youth Without Youth
“They always play The Godfather [theme] when I come down at these things,” said Francis Ford Coppola, looking jovial and scruffy in colorful layers last night at a screening of his new movie Youth Without Youth (opening Dec. 14) at the Paris Theater. “I beg the audience to let me move on, find new ways of expressing myself.”
Mr. Coppola wrote, produced and directed Youth Without Youth through his independent film studio, American Zoetrope, Ltd, which was established 1969 so that the prolific director could make more personal movies and avoid the major studios (remember what happened with Apocalypse Now?) read more »
Apocalypse Cash Cow! Coppola Takes Doc About His Magnum Opus to DVD; Its Director Pouts
Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola is being accused of hypocrisy and “corporation”-like behavior by fellow filmmaker George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl). read more »
Does Lucas' Star Wars Finale Take Revenge on Planet Bush?
Great, Eccentric Film Writer Expands Magnum Opus-Again
I Never Argue Over Movies-Well, Maybe Not Never
New York Times Nixes Gay Couple's Wedding Announcement
10,000 Nazis Under the Sea … Deflowered in the Attic
One From the Spleen: Coppola Battles Biskind on the High Seas
Stop Stomping Spielberg! Amistad Floats; The Rainmaker Does, Too
Grisham Gets Coppola-ed for The Rainmaker ; Figgis' Take on the Original Sin
