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New York Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
How much are tickets to see Francis Ford Coppola discuss ‘Megalopolis' live?
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Following the theatrical release of 2024's 'Megalopolis,' the film somehow ceased to exist. Francis Ford Coppola's latest — his 23rd feature-length directorial effort and first since 2011 — did not hit streaming services. No physical media hit shelves. It seemed as if you missed the movie at the multiplex, you were out of luck. However, now a little less than a year later, we're starting to see why. The 86-year-old auteur recently announced he's striking out on a six-show 'Megalopolis' tour where he'll screen and discuss the divisive yet rewarding, challenging yet invigorating film live. 'This is the way 'Megalopolis' was meant to be seen, in a large venue, with a crowd and followed by intense interactive discussions about the future,' Coppola shared via Instagram. 'I'm bringing 'Megalopolis' to unique theatres in select cities across the country. Following the screenings, I will lead an interactive conversation about the future of humanity, along with a live audience Q&A.' On the brief trek, the Hofstra grad is set to make two New York and New Jersey stops to chat about the film that tells the story of an 'alternate United States' called New Rome where plans to build 'Megalopolis,' a utopian urbanist community is proposed. First, he'll hit Red Bank, NJ's Count Basie Center on Sunday, July 20. Soon after, the visionary behind 'The Godfather,' 'The Conversation,' 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Outsiders' swings into Port Chester, NY's Capitol Theatre on Wednesday, July 23. If you want to be there to catch the cinema icon/American Zoetrope founder talk about the heady flick (which stars Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne, Shia LaBeouf and so, so, so many more), tickets can be scooped up for most shows as of today. At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets for any one show was $55 including fees on Vivid Seats. Other shows start anywhere from $60 to $90 including fees. Not bad to see a one-of-a-kind, larger-than-life artist live. For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' tour live. All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation. Francis Ford Coppola tour schedule 2025 A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found below. Francis Ford Coppola tour dates Ticket prices start at July 20 at the Count Basie Center in Red Bank, NJ $60 (including fees) July 23 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY $82 (including fees) July 25 at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago, IL $70 (including fees) July 27 at the Paramount Theatre in Denver, CO $55 (including fees) July 29 at the Texas Theatre in Dallas, TX N/A Aug. 1 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA $90 (including fees) (Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and, if it isn't noted, will include additional fees at checkout.) Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event. Still curious about Vivid Seats? You can find an article from their team about why the company is legit here. 'Megalopolis' trailer Didn't catch 'Megalopolis' on its initial run and can't quite recall the film's striking look, epic scope or moody tone? Take a look at the visually sumptuous, gripping trailer right here, right now: Film stars on tour in 2025 A handful of silver screen heroes are also going the Q&A route these next few months. Here are just five of our favorites you won't want to miss live. • Cary Elwes with 'The Princess Bride' • John Cusack with 'High Fidelity' or 'Say Anything' • William Shatner with 'Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan' • Chevy Chase with 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' • John Waters Want to catch a concert too? Take a look at our list of all the biggest artists on tour in 2025 to find the show for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
Gizmodo
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Megalopolis' Is Returning to Theaters, in a Truly Mega Way
Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited dream project, came and went from theaters last year. Usually, after that, a film would show up on demand or for streaming but that wasn't the case here. What was happening with Megalopolis? Now we know. Starting July 20, Coppola's film will be taken on the road for a series of events called 'An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis Screening.' It kicks off in Red Bank, NJ, before going to Port Chester, NY; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Dallas, TX; and San Francisco, CA. It includes a screening of the film, obviously, as well as an 'interactive discussion' with Coppola called 'How to Change Our Future.' 'This is the way Megalopolis was meant to be seen,' Coppola said in a statement. 'In a large venue, with a crowd and followed by intense interactive discussions about the future.' You can get tickets on Ticketmaster, which appear to cost around $40. Released last year, Megalopolis was the result of decades of planning and anticipation from the legendary director of The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation. It cost well over $100 million and was paid for almost exclusively by Coppola himself, but it proceeded to bomb at the box office, grossing a little over $14 million. Nevertheless, the film's huge ambition and beyond-weird performances, themes, and visuals gave it the beginnings of cult classic status. Physical versions of the film were released but nothing beyond that. Adam Driver stars in the film as a visionary architect who wants to push his city into the future, only to run into a hard-nosed mayor, played by Giancarlo Esposito. Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, and Shia LaBeouf all get in the fun along with Aubrey Plaza as a character named Wow Platinum. Yes, it's a movie where someone named 'Wow Platinum' makes total sense. We don't think Megalopolis is a particularly good movie, but it's certainly fascinating, worthy of discussion, and surely there won't be too many more cases to see Coppola discuss his work in public in the coming years. If you're a fan, take note.
San Francisco Chronicle
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Francis Ford Coppola to host S.F. screening of ‘Megalopolis,' the way it was ‘meant to be seen'
Francis Ford Coppola is headed to San Francisco to present his film ' Megalopolis ' and to discuss the future of cinema. Billed as 'An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and 'Megalopolis' Screening,' the Aug. 1 event at the Palace of Fine Arts is the final stop on a tour organized by Live Nation. Tickets are on sale at 'Megalopolis,' released theatrically in September, was the 'Godfather' filmmaker's dream project for decades. The Napa Valley resident famously footed the $120 million budget himself in part by selling a portion of his Sonoma County wine empire. The film, beset by controversy, pulled in only $14 million globally. Later, Coppola suggested he was near bankruptcy. The film has divided critics, including here at the Chronicle. Undeterred, the 86-year-old Coppola has declined to release the film to streaming, and has hosted screenings off and on since the film's run in theaters. 'This is the way 'Megalopolis' was meant to be seen, in a large venue, with a crowd and followed by intense interactive discussions about the future,' Coppola said in a statement released by Live Nation. After the screening of the over two-hour epic, Coppola is scheduled to host an 'in-depth interactive discussion' called 'How to Change Our Future.' The discussion also includes a Q&A with the audience. 'Megalopolis' stars Adam Driver as architect Cesar Catilina, whose vision of a utopia in New Rome is at odds with corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), with the mayor's daughter (Nathalie Emmanuel) caught in the middle. The all-star cast includes Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza and Dustin Hoffman. Driver defended the film and its maker as Coppola received the American Film Institute's 50th Life Achievement Award at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles in April. 'This is a principled life, and for a year in our culture when the importance of the arts is minimized, and our industry is seemingly out in the open, then the only metric to judge a film's success is by how much money it makes,' Driver said. 'I hang on to individuals like Francis for inspiration, who live through their convictions, through big moves, all in service of pushing the medium forward. 'Francis took $120 million and created a singular gesture for what he thought film could be, and I think that's pretty great.'
Coin Geek
11-06-2025
- Business
- Coin Geek
How TEA guarantees trust in accounting
Homepage > News > Business > How TEA guarantees trust in accounting Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Traditional accounting systems are notorious for fraud and errors, especially double-entry bookkeeping. In today's economy, enterprises need a clear picture of their finances to save money where they can, and for this, they need 100% accurate information. With all the frontier technology available today, enterprises must find a way to guarantee their books are accurate, both for themselves and for auditors. Ironically, the solution lies in a concept that was fleshed out by Ian Grigg in 2005, but before we get there, let's examine the shortcomings of double-entry accounting. title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""> 'The first one is the oldest one, which is that you can have several books. You can show one book to the tax authority, and you can show another set of books to the bank and they could be different,' shared former auditor Torje Vingen Sunde, Co-founder & CTO of Abendum. 'The other shortcoming of double-entry accounting is that they are in data silos. They don't talk together,' he said. Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Konstantinos Sgantzos, head of the environmental subsector of Megalopolis lignite mining directorate, is also a close friend of Grigg's and greatly admires his work. When asked to elaborate on the shortcomings of double-entry accounting, Sgantzos described it as 'an opinion' rather than a truth. 'You know, it is my opinion that my book says that, and that is true. And your book has your opinion. And we need to sink our opinions. So, it is my word versus yours. And if it happens to me and I lose the book, what happens? I must accept your truth from mine,' Sgantzos told CoinGeek. According to Grigg, double-entry accounting simply represents the founder's view of the company's situation. 'It's not reality,' he said. The solution to these challenges associated with traditional accounting systems can be found with Triple Entry Accounting (TEA), a concept Grigg is the co-inventor of. 'Triple entry accounting creates a set of records which are facts, as opposed to the old way, which is a set of records which are opinions. On those facts, you can automatically analyze them, such that part of the process of auditing is done for you automatically by the software and other parts are a lot easier,' Grigg explained. 'Now, this completely changes the paradigm of accounting. Accounting's no longer an opinion,' he said. Triple entry accounting does not turn bad people into good people. It creates a system where the full set of real transactions can be verified and cannot be altered or ignored. A @iang_fc explains, what Sam Bankman-Fried did by leaving out key transactions could not happen with… Sgantzos added, 'Triple-entry accounting basically expands upon double-entry bookkeeping. In essence, we had this debit and credit books, and the triple-entry accounting adds a third record that is basically a cryptographic proof that both books are in sync.' Juan Ignacio Ibañez, the General Secretary of the MiCA Crypto Alliance, is also a triple-entry accounting enthusiast who elaborated on the system's use cases. 'What it gives you is reliability at the basis of the bookkeeping, which then translates into reliability for the entire accounting edifice, and it also solves the problem of reconciliation by turning reconciliation from an activity to necessity, intrinsic reconciliation that is always there,' he shared. While reliable bookkeeping means reduced costs and increased efficiency, Ibañez said its easier for some industries to upgrade than others. 'The potential for triple-entry accounting in supply chains, for example, could be massive, but it will take a long time. More financial industries have more short-term potential, but I just think auditing in itself is the main industry to be disrupted in the short run,' he said. One question to be answered is whether triple-entry accounting systems should be blockchain-enabled. Blockchain itself may be an iteration of triple-entry accounting, but it can also enhance it. According to Grigg, it all depends on your environment. 'The easy answer is yes, just use a blockchain. It's not the only way. It might not be the best way. So the question then is, why would you use a blockchain?' 'This always comes back to the question of what's your environment? Who are your people? Are you in an adversarial world where if you and I are doing trade and I happen to be a bit naive, can you screw me over? And if that's the world we live in, blockchain is great for that because it locks everything down,' Grigg explained. For Sunde, who is looking through an auditor's lens, integrating a public, scalable, global blockchain such as BSV into a triple-entry accounting system is very important. 'With the introduction of blockchain this become much more feasible because this global ledger, you can use that to log everything. It makes it more compatible,' he said. Ibañez pointed out how utilizing blockchain brings decentralization to the triple-entry accounting system. 'The role of a third party in TEA is very limited, but you still need a third party for timestamping, ordering, you decentralize that bit as well with blockchain. And at the same time, you have an entire messaging and a data storage network that can be global, so it increases the potential of triple entry accounting,' he said. Blockchain-enabled or not, triple-entry accounting is clearly an enormous upgrade for accounting systems across all industries. Thanks to triple-entry accounting, we can build a more transparent accounting future, guaranteeing with 100% certainty that our numbers are always accurate. Watch: Triple Entry Accounting with Ian Grigg
UPI
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
'Apocalypse Now' doc 'Hearts of Darkness' returning to theaters
1 of 6 | Eleanor Coppola, seen with husband Francis Ford Coppola at the 2022 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, oo-directed the documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo June 6 (UPI) -- Rialto Pictures announced Friday it will re-release the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse in theaters this summer. The film will screen for two weeks at the Film Forum in New York beginning July 4 and play nationally after. Hearts of Darkness follows Eleanor Coppola as she documents her husband, Francis Ford Coppola, during the making of his 1979 film Apocalypse Now. Filming in the Philippines went awry, including star Martin Sheen having a heart attack and Marlon Brando's tardiness delaying production. Behind-the-scenes directors Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper first assembled their footage in the Hearts of Darkness documentary in 1991. The trio won Emmys for Directing and Editing after the film premiered on Showtime. American Zoetrope and Roundabout Entertainment restored the documentary in 4K for this re-release. Eleanor Coppola died in 2024 prior to the release of Francis' latest film, Megalopolis, which he dedicated "For My Beloved Wife Eleanor." Megalopolis was an idea Francis had while making Apocalypse Now and ultimately self-financed it, selling many of his vineyards for the film's budget. Apocalypse Now was adapted from the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness. Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius adapted the book to take place during the Vietnam War. Captain Willard (Sheen) is assigned to go upriver and assassinate rogue Colonel Kurtz (Brando), encountering several Vietnam War obstacles along the way. Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Scott Glenn, Colleen Camp, Cynthia Wood, Linda Carpenter and Harrison Ford also star. Duvall won Best Actor and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro won an Oscar. It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Francis Ford Coppola released an extended cut, Apocalypse Now: Redux in 2001 and a third version, Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut removing some of the Redux scenes, in 2019.
