[STEAM] Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis continues streak of bad press as Lionsgate's latest trailer uses fake critic quotes

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Following a less-than-ideal reception (only

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gave it a thumbs up) at the Cannes Film Festival 2024, some

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to say the least. These two snafus alone indicated the self-financed $120 million behemoth, which stars Adam Driver and many other big-name actors, could be facing a lot of trouble when it finally opens (it also struggled to find distribution), but Lionsgate's mistake while kickstarting the US promotion of the movie is lowering its chances of making any significant amount of money.

On Wednesday morning,

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uploaded a new trailer that gave those cinephiles still hopeful (or just morbidly curious) plenty to chew on. Sadly, it also included a bunch of head-scratching critic quotes that highlighted how many of his 'classics' were once blasted as well. That alone is a dangerous game to play following a divisive reception, but we'll admit it's an eye-catching one that could generate some buzz. The problem is that most (if not all) of those quotes aren't real or have been misplaced.

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