The making of Apocalypse Now is infamous for its many problems, including an incident involving a natural disaster that could ...

Marlon Brando had a very good reason for rejecting a role that would eventually go to Burt Reynolds and become one of the best films of Reynolds' career.

Mob stories have become a genre filmmakers return to over and over again, despite the well-worn narrative arcs, stock ...

This is FRESH AIR. Francis Ford Coppola also is a Kennedy Center Honoree for 2024. We're going to listen to the story he told Terry Gross in 2016 about how Marlon Brando came to be cast in Coppola's ...

Shia LaBeouf claims in the new documentary 'Megadoc' that 'Megalopolis' filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola called him "the ...

Mike Figgis directs a documentary on the production of the eminent auteur’s wildly ambitious, long-gestating ‘Megalopolis.’ ...

The classic film turns 45 today. — -- Believe it or not, 45 years ago today, "The Godfather" hit movie theaters across the United States. The film, starring Marlon Brando and a then-unknown Al ...

The studio was against the casting idea at first, then they saw the tape. By Ryan Parker The role most fans associate Marlon Brando with in The Godfather almost didn’t happen because he was seen as ...

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone speaking to Johnny Fontaine in The Godfather, 1972. Image via Paramount Pictures For anyone even remotely familiar with films in general, The Godfather is either a movie ...

<br>For a character as large and powerful as Sonny, an ordinary death wouldn't do him justice. So Francis Ford Coppola took inspiration from the finale to <a href ...