Francis Ford Coppola’s new big-budget movie “Megalopolis” drew weak ticket sales in its opening weekend after the legendary director spent more than $100 million on the film. The movie, the “Godfather” director’s first release in 13 years,

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 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.