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Lionsgate taken down its trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' after using fake movie critics quotes for the footage. The trailer launched Monday and featured supposed snippets from previous reviews for Coppola masterpieces such as 'The Godfather,' 'The Godfather Part II' and 'Apocalypse Now.' His latest, 'Megalopolis,' has been divisive and controversial from the get-go, and these fabricated quotes seemed to show that Coppola has been doubted before, even for movies that are considered classics.

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00:00Lionsgate has taken down its trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis after using fake quotes from movie critics for the footage.

00:08The trailer launched Monday and featured supposed snippets from previous reviews for Coppola's masterpieces such as The Godfather,

00:15The Godfather Part 2, and Apocalypse Now. His latest Megalopolis has been divisive and

00:21controversial from the get-go and these fabricated quotes seem to show that Coppola has been doubted before even for movies that are considered

00:28classics. But the negative quotes featured in the trailer do not actually appear in those vintage reviews. A Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement,

00:36Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis.

00:39We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable

00:47error in our vetting process. We screwed up.

00:49We're sorry. Andrew Sarris' The Vintage Voice review was quoted as calling The Godfather a sloppy self-indulgent movie.

00:56While Pauline Kael's New Yorker review supposedly called it diminished by its artsy-ness.

01:01The New York Times' Vincent Canby's review of Apocalypse Now

01:05supposedly called the 1979 film hollow at its core and Roger Ebert accused Dracula of being style over substance.

01:12But none of those quotes were real. Oddly enough,

01:14some of the original reviews do indeed feature quotes that taken out of context as they often are in movie trailers may have served the

01:21purpose of painting a picture that Coppola has been doubted before.

01:24The filmmaker spent decades getting the

01:27120 million dollar epic off the ground and brought it to Cannes in May where it was greeted with a 10-minute standing ovation from

01:33the audience, but mixed response from critics.

01:36Lionsgate boarded as a distributor though

01:38the filmmaker or his investors are expected to pay for the marketing. For more on this story, head to THR.com.

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