While facilitating questions from fans through his Instagram story on Friday, acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola admitted that he has yet to roll out for “Barbie” or “Oppenh…
.” Nevertheless, he called the box office success of both blockbusters a “victory for Cinema” — with a capital “C.”
“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” turned a doll and the atomic bomb into the fourth-biggest weekend in box office history, collectively bringing in over $200 million during their simultaneous opening frames. Both films areWhile he did helm a film trilogy of his own, the “Godfather” director hasn’t been shy about his problems with the whole sequels-prequels thing.
But Coppola’s worry over the future of cinema seems to be quelled a bit by the success of July’s marquee pair.
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