Lionsgate apologizes after getting caught faking Megalopolis trailer quotes
"We screwed up," the studio said about the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's latest, which attributed apparently fake quotes to film critics
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The distributors of Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film Megalopolis were forced to pull the film’s latest trailer from the internet today, after performing one of the most baffling incidents of self-ownership we’ve witnessed from a studio in a minute. Per Variety, Lionsgate has yanked the trailer for Coppola’s film from the internet, issuing a literal “We screwed up” statement, and putting out apologies to film critics and Coppola himself, after being caught attributing quotes about Coppola’s work to well-known critics who… never actually said those things. “Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis,” the studio said in a statement. “We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process. We screwed up. We are sorry.”