Lionsgate is working to take down its after it was revealed to include fabricated quotes from movie critics. Said a Lionsgate spokesperson in a statement: “Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for . We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process.
We screwed up. We are sorry.” The trailer launched Monday and featured supposed snippets from reviews for Coppola masterpieces such as , and .
His latest, , has been divisive and controversial from the get-go, and these fabricated quotes seemed to show that Coppola has been doubted before, even for movies that are considered classics. But as first pointed out, the negative quotes featured in the trailer do not actually appear in those vintage reviews. Andrew Sarris’ review was quoted as calling “A sloppy self-indulgent movie,” while Pauline Kael’s review supposedly called it “diminished by its artsiness.
” It goes on from there, with ’ Vincent Canby’s review of supposedly calling the 1979 film “hollow at its core” and Roger Ebert accusing of being “style over substance.” But they weren’t real. Oddly enough, some of the original reviews do indeed feature quotes, which taken out of context as they often are in movie trailers, may have served the purpose of painting a picture that Coppola has been doubted before.
has been one of the great movie experiments of 2024. Coppola spent decades getting the $120 million epic off the ground and brought it to Cannes in May for a splashy premiere, where it was greeted with a from the audience, but mixed response from critics. Lionsgate ultimately boarded as a distributor, though the filmmaker or his investors are .
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