Francis Ford Coppola

American filmmaker

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January 2025 Production for The Glimpses of the Moon was scheduled to commence in early 2025.
2024 Coppola was feted at the Kennedy Center Honors, where his friend George Lucas praised his creative approach.
August 2024 Coppola announced his intention to shoot The Glimpses of the Moon in England, describing it as having 'strong dance and musical elements' and a 'very odd confection' adaptation of the original novel.
August 2024 While promoting Megalopolis, Coppola announces Distant Vision as one of two potential future projects, expressing intent to finance it with Megalopolis' box office returns.
February 29 2024 Coppola announced that Megalopolis will be released in IMAX in Fall 2024. This film has been a longstanding ambition for him, reflecting his experiences throughout his career.
January 2024 Francis Ford Coppola confirmed that Megalopolis would not be his final film and announced plans for a new project, a loose adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon.
December 2020 A new cut of The Godfather Part III, titled Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, was released for its 30th anniversary, which Coppola stated vindicated his daughter's performance.
2019 Released Apocalypse Now Final Cut, another re-edited version of his landmark war film.
2019 Completed a director's cut of The Cotton Club, spending $500,000 of his own money to restore the film, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2019.
December 2019 Released The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, a re-edit of The Godfather Part III that Coppola claimed was closer to his and Mario Puzo's original vision.
2017 Released The Cotton Club: Encore, a revised version of his 1984 film.
July 22 2016 A 27-minute live broadcast of Distant Vision is presented to a limited audience at the Freud Playhouse, produced with help from UCLA film students and faculty.
June 5 2015 A 52-minute version of the project, titled Distant Vision, is successfully screened live in theaters in Paris, New York City, Los Angeles, and Napa, California.
2014 Coppola decides to realize the film as a live venture, conceptualizing 'live cinema' using multiple camera feeds and real-time switching, inspired by sports broadcasting technology.
2013 The Hollywood Reporter officially announces Coppola's project, a coming-of-age saga about an Italian-American family. Casting directors Courtney Bright and Nicole Daniels, and producer Fred Roos are hired for the project.
2012 Francis Ford Coppola reveals in an Entertainment Weekly interview that he has a secret investor for an ambitious film project, which would build upon his previous independent films. He describes the project as a story set across multiple decades from the mid-1920s to late 1960s.

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