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The bad movie reviews quoted in Lionsgate’s Megalopolis trailer were mostly made up

Sometimes, your haters don’t exist.

Hours after it was released, Lionsgate pulled a trailer for Megalopolis that was clearly “ gunning for the haters ” with a selection of negative quotes about director Francis Ford Coppola’s previous works. That’s because reports like this one from Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri showed that critic quotes in the trailer lambasting films like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now were fabricated. “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.

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