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Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is a woman to war!

For September 27th, 2004.

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My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. She's hoping for $5 million

at the box office this weekend. It's Ashley Burns. I had to Ashley, everybody.

Well, $5 million is a lot to meet. To Francis Ford Coppola, maybe not so much.

And it is projected that the was varieties making this call that the Francis The Francis Ford Coppola opus, Megalopolis, is going to make $5 million at the box office this weekend.

Well, it could make as much as $7 million.

So then this is, for a lot of movies, great.

That would be really wonderful.

For Megalopolis, which he self-funded for an estimated $120 million of $5 to $7 million opening is not great.

And to remind everybody, this is the one where they put out a marketing campaign that basically said all the critics are wrong.

It's said in the commercial, like Francis Ford Coppola is a genius.

And remember, he's funding all this. And it was, then they pulled it because it had what was

believed to be AI generated quotes, but definitely inaccurate, fake quotes. Definitely quotes

of real journalists. Or that were attributed to other movies or it was not accurate anyway. So,

yeah, it's had a lot going on. Also, you remember, there was a lot of hubbub about the movie

it can, where there was a big standing ovation, but then also very mixed reviews. It's very

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