Coppola, the director of all-timers including "The Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now,' put $120 million of his own money into the ambitious oddity of a project.

Francis Ford Coppola self-funded his new epic "Megalopolis" by leveraging his wine business. He may not recoup his investment at the box office.

Francis Ford Coppola waged war with studio heads throughout the making of “The Godfather.” Production on his 1979 Vietnam War epic, “Apocalypse Now,” was so troubled — there was a typhoon and a near-fatal heart attack — that it was chronicled in a documentary.