Francis Ford Coppola

Winemaker and movie director Francis Ford Coppola is suing bottle maker Vinocor USA Inc. for ruining 55,000 cases of his vineyard's wine. Bloomberg reports: Coppola's wine company, Francis Ford Coppola Presents LLC, hired Vinocor in 2007 to make custom bottles at $8.76 a case and oversized screw caps at $43.25 per 1,000 for "Encyclopedia" wines, according to a lawsuit filed Nov. 23 in California court. Vinocor was paid about $685,000 last...  

Oxidized wine can be a nightmare for any winemaker. Francis Ford Coppola's winery is suing Vinocor, the maker of specialized screw caps and custom bottles for the Coppola's Encyclopedia wine series. The wines were created to showcase varietals that best represent the culture and traditions of different winegrowing regions and have distinctive beaker-like bottles. Coppola's team says that defective bottles and caps ended up ruining 55,000 cases...  

Top critics have voted FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA's war movie APOCALYPSE NOW the best film of the last 30 years.The 1979 drama, starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, is...  

Coming off the incredible success of the original Godfather game (which stems from Francis Ford Coppola’s movie, which stems from Mario Puzo’s book), EA offers a revamped open-world sequel in The Godfather II. You play as a character named Dominic, a man who has worked his way through the ranks of the late 1950s Italian mafia and now has his shot at running his own family under the tutelage of Michael Corleone. With chaos erupting in pre...  

Know what this trio of names has in common -- Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle, and Francis Ford Coppola? They collaborated on the music for Coppola's 1982 film One from the Heart. Waits was the creative mind behind the film's music, he performed a number of duets with the country singer, and he also earned an Academy Award nomination for his efforts. However, that was about all the notoriety the film got. As Roger Ebert wrote in his review some...  

Former professor blended creative arts, sensory experiencesDaily 49erHe is survived by a brother, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola; a sister, Talia Shire; sons Christopher Coppola, Marc Coppola and Cage; and six grandchildren.  

An 18-year-old American named Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) tracks down his long-lost older brother, Tetro (Vincent Gallo), now living as a failed writer in a Buenos Aires artist colony. Bitter conversations and flashbacks gradually sketch what separated the brothers -- a deeply dysfunctional family of creatives (musicians, writers, singers, dancers) that proved to be more destructive than supportive. ("There is only room for one genius.") Can...  

Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola has a grim prognosis for the movie industry. He claims the studios are under great financial distress and some will cease to exist. Coppola says that the competition for audience from alternate means of entertainment will mean that world cinema may have to morph into completely different forms, combining with live entertainment in order to keep the audience interested. He says movie studios will...  

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- “The cinema as we know it is falling apart,” says Francis Ford Coppola . “It’s a period of incredible change,” says the director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now.” “We used to think of six, seven big ...  

LOS ANGELES - August Coppola, a former literature professor and the father of actor Nicolas Cage and the brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, died Oct. 27 in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. He was 75.  

Francis Ford Coppola's classic 1972 mafia saga tops a poll of films that most people claim to have watched, but never have. Is this you? Fess up now.Everybody knows that The Godfather is one of the greatest gangster pictures ever made. That it features a majestic performance from Marlon Brando as Don Corleone and was directed with richness and gusto by the young Francis Ford Coppola. Everybody knows that The Godfather is a masterpiece – but...  

Two people penned the screenplays to the most best-picture champs at the Academy Awards: three. One of them was Francis Ford Coppola: "Patton" (1970), "The Godfather" (1972), "The Godfather, Part II" (1974). Who was the other? To see the answer, click here! ANSWER: C.) Alan Jay Lerner wrote the screenplays to three Oscar best-picture winners: "An American in Paris" (1952), "Gigi" (1958) and "My Fair Lady" (1964). He only won Oscars for two of...  

August Coppola, Nicholas Cage's father and brother of accalaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, passed away on Tuesday, October 27 of a heart attack, he was 75. Coppola's passing was confirmed by Nicholas Cage's spokeswoman, Annett Wolf saying the cause of death was a heart...read more  

Cinema is falling apart, warns Francis Ford Coppola. However sad, this is a familiar refrainNot so long ago, Francis Ford Coppola used to make predictions about the future of cinema. It was going to be "electronic", he promised. Even while shooting one of his films, he liked to sit in a hi-tech caravan – The Silverfish, he called it – playing with the image, electronically, and saying that very soon people would be able to transmit those...  

August Coppola, father to actor Nicolas Cage and brother to director Francis Ford Coppola, passed away on Tuesday. The 75-year-old literature professor was struck with a heart attack. Read on for more details.