Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed sci-fi epic, is coming to digital platforms tomorrow. Given that the Megalopolis movie parallels the fall of the Roman Empire to the imagined fall of the U.S empire, it feels pretty darn relevant right now.
Written, directed, and paid for by Coppola—who has been trying to get this film made for over thirty years—Megalopolis is set in an alternate reality of modern-day New York City, which is dubbed “New Rome.” Adam Driver stars as Cesar Catilina, a once-great elite leader whose fallen into alcoholism and depression. The sprawling ensemble cast also includes Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D. B. Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman.
Megalopolis is a divisive film, to say the least, but there are no doubt many people who weren’t curious enough to see the film in theaters, but will be curious to watch the movie online. Here’s what you need to know about where to watch Megalopolis, and when we expect to see Megalopolis on streaming.
The Megalopolis movie will be released on digital, on premium video-on-demand, on Tuesday, November 12. You’ll be able to buy or rent the film on digital platforms like Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Vudu, and more. The film will cost $24.99 to buy a digital copy, or $19.99 to rent. If you rent the film, you will have 48 hours to watch it after hitting play.
Megalopolis is not yet streaming on a subscription streaming service, but we do expect to see Megalopolis streaming on Starz eventually.
There is not yet a Megalopolis movie streaming release date. Even though you will be able to buy or rent the Megalopolis movie online tomorrow, you won’t be able to stream it on a subscription-based streaming platform just yet.
That said, you can expect to see Megalopolis on Starz eventually because that is the streaming platform owned by Lionsgate. Another Lionsgate film, The Strangers: Chapter 1, was released on “premium” video-on-demand after three weeks in theaters, and is expected to stream on Starz on September 30, about four and a half months after the movie opened in the theaters.
If the Megalopolis movie follows the same release pattern, you can expect to see the movie on Starz in about four months, which would be around February 2025.
That said, Starz and Lionsgate are expected to split up before the end of 2024, so it’s possible that Megalopolis will end up on a different streamer. We’ll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, you can always watch Megalopolis on the big screen.