Hollywood Is Doomed If There’s No Room for ‘Megalopolis’es

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( saint Francis vs. the philistines [Hollywood Is Doomed If There’s No Room for Megalopolises]( Francis Ford Coppola self-financed a movie the industry’s bean counters don’t want. It’s not surprising, but it is depressing. Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images In 1992, as a sophomore in college, I finagled my way onto the press lists of several studios. (Let’s just say I co-founded an arts magazine that lasted for precisely two issues.) I then marveled as screening invites to major film releases started appearing in my mailbox. The crown jewel among these arrived that fall, when I got invited to an early showing of Francis Ford Coppola’s latest, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The film had been heavily anticipated by just about everybody — after all, it had a great cast, a great [teaser](, and the director of The Godfather doing Dracula. But it was especially anticipated by my cohort: Our dorm room already sported an advance poster for the film ([this badass one](, provided by one of my roommates) to go alongside the posters of The Godfather Part III (provided by another roommate) and Apocalypse Now (provided by me — I’d left my Tucker: The Man and His Dream poster at home). We were the kind of people who’d go around saying things like “He’d kill us if he had the chance” and “Charlie don’t surf!” and “It was you, Fredo,” and chuckling smugly to ourselves. You know: dorks. [read more]( [Anniversary Sale: Celebrate with $20 off unlimited access, plus get a free anniversary tote.]( [Anniversary Sale: Celebrate with $20 off unlimited access, plus get a free anniversary tote.]( The Latest TV Recaps • Top Chef: Wisconsin: [Shaking Things Up]( • Fallout: [Ain’t That a Kick in the Head]( • American Horror Story: Delicate: [Brooklyn Witches]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [What Show Airs Where? Inside the Hulu–ABC Programming Machine “For the Hulu customer, it’s a small difference between what’s a Hulu Original and an ABC show. They’re just watching shows.”]( By Josef Adalian [Quiet on Set Was the Most-Watched Title on Streaming in Its Debut Week It’s a big (and rare) Nielsen win for Max.]( By Josef Adalian [2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading List Another Harry Styles fanfic, new Walking Dead, and a little film called Dune: Part 2.]( By Emily Maskell [Immaculate’s Ferocious, Gross-Out Ending, Explained Sydney Sweeney fully commits to a playfully blasphemous, Grand Guignol spectacle.]( By A.A. Dowd [Wait, Taylor Swift’s Music Is Back on TikTok? It’s unclear why her songs since 2019, released under UMG, have returned.]( By Justin Curto [O.J. Simpson, Infamous Athlete, Dies of Cancer at 76 The football star was acquitted for a high-profile double murder in the ’90s and later served time in prison for armed robbery.]( By Zoe Guy [Lady Whistledown Hasn’t Tired of Drama Bridgerton’s Regency-era instigator becomes the main character.]( By Alejandra Gularte [Cannes We Please Get the Full Cannes Lineup? Official selection includes Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s Kind of Kindness.]( By Jennifer Zhan [What’s the Goss About Cost(ner)? Costner is saying he wants to come back, but has that ship already sailed?]( By Jason P. Frank [Fallout Is Barbenheimer: The TV Show Nuclear anxieties? Check! Mid-century design? Check! Cowboy hats? Boy howdy, that’s a check!]( By Bethy Squires [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 7-Down, Three Letters: Number of season of Hulu’s “Reboot” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name a Seth Rogen movie with 80% or better on Rotten Tomatoes? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images, James Devaney/GC Images, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images From Our Friends at Thrillist … The new Apple TV+ show, Palm Royale, is transporting viewers to 1960s Palm Beach. If you want to visit the locations that inspired the series and were also captured in some of Slim Aarons’ photos, [look no further](! A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved