The Cannes Film Festival officially announced the selection of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis in Competition at its press conference in Paris on Thursday, confirming Deadline’s scoop from Mike Fleming earlier this week. Talking to journalists after the press conference, a visibly happy Frémaux expressed...

EXCLUSIVE: After a feverish courtship of Francis Coppola between the organizers of the Cannes, Venice and Toronto Film festivals, Megalopolis has been locked into a gala premiere slot on the Palais on Friday evening May 17, I’m told. The film will premiere in...

EXCLUSIVE: Some 20 years after it was took root in the imagination of Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis screened this morning for the very first time. Held at the Universal CityWalk IMAX Theater, the epic film screened for buyers, and had every distributor in...

Actor-writer-director D.B. Sweeney has signed with Defining Artists for representation. Sweeney recently wrapped filming a major role in Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming Megalopolis, a project which reunited Sweeney and Coppola, who worked together on Coppola’s 1987 film Gardens of Stone. On television, Sweeney...