When Francis Ford Coppola was awarded $80m for not making Pinocchio

How a battle over Francis Ford Coppola’s unmade Pinocchio led to the biggest ever civil financial verdict against a Hollywood studio. Multi-Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola had huge success with his films in the 1970s, although in the aftermath of the troubled production of Apocalypse Now, his movies of the 1980s struggled to break through ... When Francis Ford Coppola was awarded $80m for not making Pinocchio The post When Francis Ford Coppola was awarded $80m for not making Pinocchio appeared first on Film Stories.