Francis Ford Coppola
American filmmaker
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| 2025 | Awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, further solidifying his status as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. |
| January 2025 | Production for The Glimpses of the Moon was scheduled to commence in early 2025. |
| 2024 | Francis Ford Coppola releases 'Megalopolis', a long-anticipated film that he is directing, writing, and producing. This project represents a significant personal creative endeavor for the legendary filmmaker. |
| 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. |
| April 9 2024 | Revealed that Megalopolis will premiere in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. |
| 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. |
| October 2019 | Launched a cannabis brand called The Grower's Series in partnership with Humboldt Brothers, debuting the brand in San Francisco. |
| April 2019 | Announced plans to direct Megalopolis, a long-standing passion project about the reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster. |
| 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. |
| 2010 | Honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, recognizing his significant contributions to the film industry. |
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