Amazon and Apple are reportedly engaged in a great battle to acquire the distribution of one of the most anticipated science fiction films of the coming years, and directed by one of the best directors of all time.
Amazon and Apple at war over this anticipated sci-fi film
In the film industry, Amazon and Apple have become serious customers when it comes to putting their hands in the wallet to produce big films. The two giants who now have their own streaming platform have given a serious boost to the field.
Jeff Bezos’ firm wanted to impress people by producing the most expensive series in the world The Rings of Power, whose first season reportedly cost $465 million. For its part, Apple notably produced USS Greyhound – The Battle of the Atlantic with Tom Hanks, and took out the greenbacks to produce two recent behemoths: Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese and the Napoleon by Ridley Scott.
This time, the two giants face off in the field of distribution around a film by another monument of filmmaking: Francis Ford Coppola. It is Megalopolis, film described as avant-garde which tells “a Roman epic in modern America. A peplum, in the traditional style of Cecile B. DeMille or Ben-Hur, but set in the present day and centered in America. according to the father of the trilogy Godfatherof Lost in Translation, orApocalypse Now.
Megalopolis, the jaw-dropping movie
A large-scale, extremely risky project (in the director’s mind for 40 years). And for good reason, Coppola chose to self-finance his project in order to keep control of it, and the film was not unanimous during the first screeningssome have called it “too experimental” to have a chance of attracting spectators to theaters. Added to this is the problem of distribution. Although we have just learned that Le Pacte has obtained the rights to distribute the film in France, Megalopolis is still deprived of a distributor to be propelled across the Atlantic, to the United States.
But seeing the potential of the film starring Adam Driver, Amazon and Apple are both on board. starting blocks to redeem it. Information reported by Variety, which reveals that the two empires are engaged in a fierce battle to acquire the project.
But as our colleagues at‘Wide Screenthe outcome of this financial battle should not fall before the month of May, on the 17th to be precise, the supposed day of the world premiere of Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival, and therefore critical feedback.
