While many beloved filmmakers working today have embraced the streaming model as a viable way to release movies, Francis Ford Coppola is fighting back, and says that streaming will never live up to the experience of watching a movie in the cinema. Coppola recently returned to theaters with his self-funded, controversial “masterpiece?” Megalopolis. The movie struggled to find a distributor during its production, as Coppola pumped a reported $120 million of his own money into the movie. While Megalopolis eventually landed a theatrical release, courtesy of Lionsgate, it appears that Coppola would never have settled for any one of the countless streaming services as an alternative.
Don’t expect Francis Ford Coppola to ever make a Netflix movie, as the director hates the streaming business model. Read More