{"id":31359,"date":"2025-09-03T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31359"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:30:42","slug":"megadoc-official-trailer-utopia-making-of-megalopolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31359","title":{"rendered":"MEGADOC | Official Trailer | Utopia : Making of &#8220;Megalopolis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Utopia<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The trailer for Mike Figgis&#8217; &#8220;<strong>Megadoc<\/strong>&#8221; has been released by Utopia after its Venice premiere. The feature length documentary focuses on Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s decades-long journey to create his passion project &#8220;<strong>Megalopolis<\/strong>&#8220;, which he self-financed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Oscar-nominated \u201c<strong>Leaving Las Vegas<\/strong>\u201d director Mike Figgis, directs the documentary, which combines archival material, unfiltered cast interviews, and plenty of footage from the set, revealing the chaotic nature of the production with conflicts, delays, and frustration.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p class=\"p1\">Figgis was in charge of filming Megalopolis during rehearsals, the shoot, and post-production, with the assistance of Aubrey Plaza. Additionally, Figgis was hired as the cameraman for her newscaster character, Wow Platinum, during those rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In addition, the documentary features footage of table reads from the early 2000s when Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, and Ryan Gosling worked on them. In the trailer, you can witness recognizable actors such as Plaza, Adam Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Giancarlo Esposito, Shia LaBeouf, Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Voight, along with a witty line from George Lucas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The $120 million &#8220;<strong>Megalopolis<\/strong>&#8221; movie, which combined Roman history, political allegory, and more, was a commercial failure with only $14 million in box-office receipts last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The film received mixed reviews, but it hasn&#8217;t received a physical home media release in North America yet.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Utopia The trailer for Mike Figgis&#8217; &#8220;Megadoc&#8221; has been released by Utopia after its Venice premiere. 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Oscar-nominated \u201cLeaving Las Vegas\u201d director Mike Figgis, directs the documentary, which combines archival material, unfiltered cast interviews,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20471,30],"tags":[140,5621,3784,8370,3788,9179,28272,3785,28273,13229],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MEGADOC | Official Trailer | Utopia : Making of &quot;Megalopolis&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Megadoc : A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola&#039;s Megalopolis (2024).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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