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Supporting reading in Year 5 (Age 9-10)

In Year 5 (in England) or Primary 6 (in Scotland), your child will be encouraged to read widely. This way, they will become familiar with many different types of language and writing. They will talk about and explore their understanding of a wide range of books including stories, non-fiction, poetry, and play-scripts.

How to help at home

There are plenty of simple and effective ways you can help your child with reading in Year 5/Primary 6.

Keep reading to your child as long as possible

At this age, it is tempting to leave your child to get on with reading on their own. But hearing a story read  to  them is still very important for developing their comprehension. Here are a few reasons why:

• Hearing a story read out loud means that your child can have access to books that may as yet be too challenging to read alone. These challenging texts will help to develop their comprehension skills.
• Left to their own devices, your child might tend to pick lots of similar texts to read (for example, books from a favourite author or magazine). Reading aloud to your child gives you the opportunity to introduce them to books that they might not choose to pick up themselves, exposing them to a wider range of stories and types of text.
• Listening to an adult read gives a model for fluent reading. It allows your child to hear how a skilled reader uses expression, bringing the words on the page to life.
• Reading together gives your child time to discuss ideas and share opinions about what you’re reading. This is great, as it helps children to think deeply about a text and practise explaining their opinions.

Listen to your child read

Even though your child is likely to be an independent reader, it’s still helpful to listen to them read. It means you can help them with unfamiliar words and talk together to make sure that they understand the book. You could read their school reading book with them or ask them to share with you something that they are reading for themselves, a magazine they have or even something linked to a favourite video game.

Read a wide variety of books

Encourage your child to choose texts with a variety of formats and layouts. Lots of children have favourite authors and genres, but it can be helpful to expand into new types of books every so often – and be sure not to neglect non-fiction texts, such as magazine articles, brochures, adverts, newspaper columns, signs, and notices.

Showing your child lots of kinds of texts will give them experience reading in a real-world context, and will also prepare them for national assessments where they are expected to engage with a wide variety of text types. Make sure you talk together about how the texts are presented – the writing will look different depending on what type of text it is from.

Listen to audiobooks

If you feel like you spend half your life driving your children around, listening to an audiobook together can be a great use of this time. It will give you a shared experience and can introduce your child to new books that they might not choose for themselves. A professional reader often can really bring out the meaning in more complex books.

Join reading clubs and groups

Give your child as many opportunities as possible to share reading ideas and recommendations. This way they can share the excitement of reading – through a variety of clubs, groups, festivals, and so on. Visit your library and bookshop for information.

Use pictures to talk about stories

Pictures are still a great way for your child to practise their comprehension skills, even as they get older. Graphic novels, picture books for older readers, non-fiction books (including ones about fictional beings such as dragons or monsters) and some illustrated stories all have images that can be discussed. Look for some interesting ideas here .

Read for a purpose

As well as reading for pleasure, your child is likely to need to read for particular purposes in Year 5. They will read to find information, to learn about something, or to answer questions. Practising this can be useful for success at school.

Your child may be asked to investigate a topic or find answers to questions set in class. You can help them with their research skills by talking about where to look to find the answers, although you may need to remind them to look in books and use the library as well as the internet. Children can struggle with information overload so they need your help to ‘search and sift’ both sites and information to make decisions.

Don't give up!

In Year 5, children’s enthusiasm for reading can begin to dip. One way to keep them reading is to be a reading role model yourself. Showing them that you read – a book, magazine, or even a football website – helps them to see reading as a purposeful activity.

As your child reads read more difficult books, there might be times when they struggle and may be reluctant to continue. You can help them through those patches by reading a bit with them to get them started or hooked into the next chapter. Always balance this with sensitivity and valuing their choice – it’s got to be fun!

Read our blog on Encouraging reluctant readers for more information and advice.

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Year 5 Maths Learning

Here are some of the key learning objectives for the end of Year 5:

• know and use Place value up to 1 million
• Compare and order numbers up to 1 million
• Counting on and back in steps of powers of 10 from any number up to 1 million
• Round numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10000 or 100000.
• Count forwards and backwards through zero with positive and negative numbers.
• Read Roman numerals to 1000
• add and subtract with more than 4 digits in columns
• add or subtract larger numbers mentally
• solve multi-step problems using addition and subtraction
• Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals up to 2dp by 10, 100 or 1000
• identify multiples and factors including common factors
• multiply up to 4-digit numbers by a 1-digit number
• multiply up to 3-digits numbers by 2-digits
• divide numbers up to 4-digits by a 1-digit number
• recognise and use squared and cubed numbers
• solve problems using multiplication and division
• know what a prime number is and recall prime numbers up to 20
• compare and order fractions whose denominators are multiples of the same number
• identify, name and write equivalent fractions
• convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions
• add and subtract fractions with the same denominator or whose denominators are multiples of the same number
• multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers
• read and write decimal numbers as fractions.
• Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 or 1000
• read, write, order and compare numbers up to 2dp
• round decimals with up to 2dp to the nearest whole
• solve problems with numbers up to 2dp
• understand and use the percent symbol
• convert percentages to fractions with a denominator of 100
• know fraction-percentage equivalence for halves, quarters, fifths and tenths
• solve problems using simple percentages
• measure, compare and calculate using different measures
• find the area and perimeter of a range of rectilinear shapes
• convert between different units of time
• convert between different units of metric measure
• convert between simple imperial and metric units
• solve more complex money and measure problems
• draw and measure angles in degrees
• know the sum of angles at a point (360°rees;) and angles at a point along a line (180°rees;)
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• Identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation
• find the area and perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes
• know properties of regular and irregular shapes

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Year 5 place value worksheets.

Using these Year 5 maths worksheets will help your child to:

• Understand decimals;
• Use place value notation with tenths and hundredths;
• Know how to read and write numbers to 10 million;
• Understand place value to 10 million.
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Year 5 Number Worksheets

Using these Year 5 Maths worksheets will help your child to:

• learn to estimate and approximate;
• order numbers, including negative numbers and decimals;
• learn how to place decimal numbers on a number line;
• understand and use multiples and factors, and know what a prime number is;
• complete the missing number to balance a math equation.
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Year 5 Counting Worksheets

Using these sheets will support you child to:

• count on and back by multiples of 10;
• fill in the missing numbers in sequences;
• count on and back into negative numbers.
• Counting on and back by tens

Year 5 Mental Maths Zone

Here you will find a range of printable Year 5 mental maths sheets for your child to enjoy.

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Year 5 Addition Worksheets

• add multiple numbers in columns up to 5 digits;
• add numbers in columns, including money amounts with up to two decimal places.
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Year 5 Subtraction Worksheets

• learn to subtract numbers with up to 5 digits;
• learn to subtract numbers involving money with decimals with up to two decimal places.
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Year 5 Multiplication Worksheets

Using these 4th grade math worksheets will help your child to:

• use their multiplication table knowledge to multiply by 10s and 100s mentally
• multiply any whole number by a single digit;
• multiply a two or three digit number by a two digit number.
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Year 5 Division Worksheets

Using these Year 5 maths worksheets will help your child learn to:

• apply their division facts up to 10x10 to answer related questions involving 10s and 100s.
• divide any whole number by a single digit.
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• Year 5 (4th Grade) Long Division Worksheets

These sheets involve solving a range of division problems.

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Year 5 Math Problems

• apply their addition, subtraction and problem solving skills;
• apply their knowledge of rounding and place value;
• solve a range of 'real life' problems;
• attempt more challenging longer problems.

Using the problems in this section will help your child develop their problem solving and reasoning skills.

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Year 5 fraction worksheets.

• position different fractions on a number line;
• understand equivalent fractions;
• understand what a mixed number is;
• compare two or more fractions;
• begin to convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
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Take a look at our percentage worksheets for finding the percentage of a number or money amount.

We have a range of percentage sheets from quite a basic level to much harder.

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Year 5 Geometry Worksheets

Using these sheets will help you to:

• classify angles - acute, obtuse, right, reflex, straight;
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An epic display of the northern lights just occurred. How long until another?

Scientists say it’s hard to know when another extreme solar storm will hit Earth, but the sun’s surface is bustling.

If you missed the auroras that set skies aglow in red, purple and green curtains of light Friday night, it may be a long wait before seeing another display as widespread and magnificent.

These northern and southern lights, set off by a once-in-a-generation geomagnetic storm, amazed sky watchers and left scientists in awe. They were so extraordinary and rare, that there’s no telling when the next opportunity for such a spectacle will come.

“Friday night’s storm reached superstorm level, something that happens roughly one in 20 years, on average,” said Mathew Owens, a space physicist at the University of Reading. “That doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll have to wait 20 years for the next one. That’s an average rate and these things are quasi-random.”

The next one could be next week or in 50 years, he said.

Whereas auroras are typically confined near Earth’s polar regions, social media posts showed Friday night’s display was seen in all 50 states as well as rare places like Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Italy, Austria, Mexico and India. In the Southern Hemisphere, people photographed them in Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and Australia.

“It lit up the sky globally. The world was reporting it,” said Shawn Dahl, the service coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

It brought space weather scientist Liz MacDonald to tears. Light rays were forming directly above her head in eastern Washington, appearing to fan out from a single point in the sky. This rare type of aurora, called an “aurora corona,” painted half the sky red and the other half green.

“I’m watching the skies do things I never in my lifetime thought I would see from Washington,” said MacDonald, who was amazed to the see such a dynamic aurora at this latitude. “All those particles are raining down and lighting up the magnetic field lines. It was stunning.”

The show danced overhead from sunset to sunrise.

“It’s rare and we can’t tell you when it’s going to happen again,” she added. It just depends on what the sun decides to do. Lucky for aurora chasers, the sun’s surface is bustling with activity for the next few years.

Preparing for the biggest storm in 20 years

The sun gives us more than just light. It also unleashes storms.

Geomagnetic storms occur when a surge of energy and particles from the sun — often from intense eruptions on the sun’s surface — temporarily disturb Earth’s protective magnetic bubble. NOAA ranks the strength of the storms on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 is the most extreme and most rare.

These storms can interfere with satellite systems and GPS and radio communications. They can also excite gas molecules in our upper atmosphere and release photons of light in different colors, which are the auroras.

Days ahead of time, Dahl and his NOAA colleagues predicted Friday night was going to be special. Early last week, at least five eruptions from the sun were headed toward Earth. Some were catching up to one another and combining. For the first time in 20 years, they put out a warning for a Level 4 storm — but the storm exceeded the warning.

Friday’s storms ranked as an “extreme” geomagnetic storm, reaching Level 5. The last time such a storm happened was in October 2003, which caused a blackout in Canada, power outages in Sweden and damaged transformers in South Africa.

This time around, the extreme storm didn’t seem to disrupt power or communications systems as intensely, Dahl said. He said a few places reported “voltage irregularities,” but they did not lose power. The storm did interfere with high-frequency radio systems in certain areas. As a result, some planes rerouted their paths to not pass through those zones, so their radio signals wouldn’t be disrupted. Farmers using precision GPS to navigate their tractors reported their systems were down.

Overall, Dahl considered this a huge improvement and a good test for an even bigger geomagnetic storm that might hit Earth one day.

“We’ve been taking a lot of measures since 2003 to get better at this, to come up with better ways of planning and preparedness,” Dahl said. “Lots of entities were involved and knew well ahead what was going to happen.”

Is another extreme storm on its way?

Although no one really knows for sure when the next big geomagnetic storm will strike, scientists have some clues.

Looking at records dating back 170 years, a G5 storm statistically has about a 5 percent chance of happening in any given year, said Owens, the University of Reading space physicist.

That probability could be higher for the next couple of years, though. The sun’s activity naturally ebbs and flows in 11-year periods known as the solar cycle. The sun is half way through its current cycle, and is expected to peak this year and remain fairly active for a few more.

While improbable, Dahl said an event even bigger than Friday night’s can’t be ruled out. One of the worst documented geomagnetic storms to hit Earth was the “Carrington Event” in 1859 , which sent aurora as far south as the Caribbean and disrupted telegraph systems around the world.

Friday’s solar storm wasn’t even close to size or impact of the Carrington event which only happens about once every 500 years. But storms half as intense happen about every 50 years .

“Even though it’s unlikely, we’ll still be at the highest risk for similar storms [to Friday night] or potentially even a greater one,” Dahl said. “We are overdue for an event more similar to the Carrington level of storms.”

A plethora of data — in the form of photos

For the most part, Friday’s extreme storm gave many people the chance to appreciate the aurora and to cross an item off their bucket lists. Thousands of images were snapped but those photos are more than just keepsakes, they also have scientific value.

Darrin Dressler was in bed when he saw social media posts showing the beautiful aurora displays. He was tired, but he knew he had to venture out for this rare storm. He drove an hour outside of Kansas City to a conservation area.

Green, gold and purple light rays flowed above his head, moving through the sky and changing shape.

“I’ve never thought I’d live to see a river of light flowing through the night sky,” Dressler said. “To be there and to witness it, you felt really small in one way. ”

Since the October 2003 geomagnetic storm, the proliferation of cameras — mostly because of smartphones — has vastly increased aurora photography. Cameras are much more sensitive to light than our eyes and can detect auroras where they’re invisible to people. What may appear as a faint red to us becomes shades of pink, purple and reds in the camera lens. During this storm, people used their cameras to view the lights much further south than NOAA predicted they would be visible.

MacDonald founded an aurora reporting site called Aurorasaurus.org , which collects user-submitted photos for scientific research (and welcomes submissions well after an event). The photos can help researchers learn more about rare forms of the aurora as well as improve models showing where the lights can be detected. Previous studies analyzing the data have already helped refine where auroras can be seen.

“There’s still tons of science to understand here, especially with such a rare storm and being our first opportunity with such widespread imaging,” MacDonald said.

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Suns Hire Mike Budenholzer on Massive Five-Year Contract, per Report

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It didn't take long for the Phoenix Suns to find their next head coach.

The Athletic's Shams Charania reported Friday that the Suns have agreed to terms with former Milwaukee Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer, and the deal is massive. Budenholzer will reportedly earn more than $50 million over the life of the five-year contract.

Budenholzer is an Arizona native, so this move is a bit of a homecoming for him. A two-time NBA Coach of the Year, the 54-year-old led the Bucks to an NBA title in 2021, but was let go two seasons later after failing to return the franchise to the NBA Finals.

The Suns' new coach has a long history of success, both as an assistant and the head guy. He won four NBA titles with the San Antonio Spurs as an assistant under Gregg Popovich. Budenholzer was hired to lead the Atlanta Hawks in 2013, and in five seasons went 213-197 (.520). In 2015 he was named Coach of the Year when the Hawks won the Southeast Division, and he led them to the playoffs four times. The two sides parted after the team failed to reach the postseason in 2018.

The Bucks hired Budenholzer a few weeks after he left Atlanta. The team proceeded to win the Central Division in each of his five seasons in charge. He went 271-120 (.693) as Milwaukee's head coach, was named coach of the year in 2019, and the Bucks won the aforementioned championship in 2021. Milwaukee was bounced from the Eastern Conference semifinals in 2022 and the first round in 2023, which led to Budenholzer's ouster.

The Suns were a big disappointment during the 2023-24 season. Despite boasting a high-priced Big Three of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, they finished with a 49-33 record and earned the Western Conference's sixth seed. Phoenix was then swept out of the playoffs by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Budenholzer will have his hands full turning around his new team's fortunes with a top-heavy roster, not much depth and without a true point guard to lead the way. The Suns are investing heavily in the notion that he's the guy who can do it.

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‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods

‘M y greatest fear is to make a really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and I am doing it,” Francis Ford Coppola said in 1978. “I will tell you right straight from the most sincere depths of my heart, the film will not be good.” The film was Apocalypse Now, and it was good, and the rest is history.

Part of that history has been Coppola’s reputation as an intrepid adventurer who was prepared to risk everything, to defy the studio suits, to go to the brink of ruin and madness, all for the sake of art. The making of Apocalypse Now cemented that legend – the epic scale, the jungle insanity, the heart attacks, the unbiddable weather and even less biddable actors – all of which was captured by his wife, Eleanor, in the 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness. Coppola’s anti-establishment approach has produced some of cinema’s greatest triumphs (The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, Dracula) but also some of its worst failures (One From the Heart, The Cotton Club).

Now, it seems, the 85-year-old is putting all his chips on the table one last time, with his long-awaited sci-fi epic Megalopolis, which debuts at the Cannes film festival this Friday. Nobody can quite believe it has happened: Coppola has been trying to make this movie for more than 40 years, during which the project has gone through innumerable rewrites, delays and false starts. It exists now only because he sold part of his successful winery estate to finance the movie when no one else would. So, will Megalopolis be one final masterpiece from the New Hollywood titan, or will it turn out to be a “really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject”?

Cast members including Adam Driver have spoken positively of their experience on the film, but, according to other sources, its making was almost as fraught and chaotic as that of Apocalypse Now. Much time and effort was allegedly wasted, crucial crew members quit halfway through and Coppola made things even more complicated by embarking on a property redevelopment at the same time. As one crew member put it: “It was like watching a train wreck unfold day after day, week after week, and knowing that everybody there had tried their hardest to help the train wreck be avoided.”

Coppola has described Megalopolis as his “dream script”. He first had the idea while making Apocalypse Now, fuelled by the same concerns about US imperialism. He has framed it as “a Roman epic set in modern America”, transposing the Catiline conspiracy to overthrow the rulers of the Roman republic in 63BC to a sci-fi future. The plot hinges on an idealistic architect (played by Driver) trying to build a utopian city on the ruins of New York, against the wishes of the mayor (Giancarlo Esposito), with the mayor’s socialite daughter (Nathalie Emmanuel) caught in the middle. The cast is star-studded: Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne. And, according to reports, it takes in big themes such as politics, race, architecture, philosophy, sex, love and loyalty.

The project first came on to the front burner after the failure of Coppola’s 1982 musical One From the Heart, which he self-financed, then opted to direct remotely from a custom-built trailer known as the “Silverfish” in order to test out new video production technology (as one industry figure put it, “He took an $8m project and used the latest advances in video to bring it in for $23m”).

“In the early 80s he talked about it a lot,” says the sound designer and longtime Coppola collaborator Richard Beggs. And he was already thinking big. “At one point it was going to be staged, sort of like [Wagner’s] Ring cycle in Bayreuth: the film was going to be screened over four nights. And audiences would come and they would book themselves into a hotel and see this thing in a gigantic outdoor purpose-built theatre,” says Beggs. He was thinking of something like the Red Rocks amphitheatre in Colorado.

Various personnel came and went over the years. In 1989, production was rumoured to be starting at Rome’s Cinecittà studios, with Coppola’s trusted production designer Dean Tavoularis and the comic book artist Jim Steranko (who had worked with Coppola on Dracula) designing sets. Coppola regularly held table readings of his latest draft of the script with actors including Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, James Caan, Edie Falco and Uma Thurman. The cinematographer Ron Fricke (whose documentary Koyaanisqatsi Coppola produced) reportedly shot more than 30 hours of second-unit footage around New York for the film. They were in the city shooting when 9/11 happened, which, says Coppola, prompted a major rethink: “How do you make a movie about the centre of the world without it dealing with the fact that … it was attacked and thousands of people were killed?”

In recent years, Coppola’s career appears to have been tailing off – he has directed just three features since 1997 – but it seems he never let Megalopolis go. About 300 rewrites , 40 years of preparation and one winery sale later, he finally had the means to make his dream script come true: in autumn 2022, shooting commenced over several sound stages at Atlanta’s Trilith studios.

“I have no idea where Francis gets his energy from,” says the British director Mike Figgis, who has known Coppola for 30 years. About 18 months ago, Figgis jokingly suggested making a fly-on-the-wall documentary on the making of Megalopolis . A few months later, Coppola contacted him out of the blue, “Saying: ‘When can you be here? Can you come now?’ That’s very Francis.”

Arriving in Atlanta, Figgis was impressed, he says. “Watching an 84-year-old guy hold together that massive team, and to have enough brains to be able to direct the actors, the camera and everything … He was up every morning making notes on his way on to the set, or he’s discussing his ideas with Roman, his son. And at the end of the day, he’s also the producer, so he’s thinking about his interest rate.”

As if that wasn’t enough, Coppola made life even harder for himself: “When he arrived in Atlanta, he was looking for accommodation for his extended family and he wasn’t finding anything he particularly liked. So he bought a drive-in motel which had just closed, and decided to renovate it. So all the way through the shoot, he lived there. The construction noise started at six in the morning.” When Figgis (who opted to stay in a different hotel) asked Coppola how he handled it all, “He said, ‘Look, it’s all the same thing. Movie business, construction business: it’s telling people what you want, and making sure they do it.’”

The actors seem to have been obliging at least; no heart attacks this time, although there was some tussling with Shia LaBeouf. “He and Shia had this wonderful combative relationship, which was very productive,” says Figgis. “Shia had a lot of questions, and sometimes Francis would be stressed by a bunch of other things and he would respond in a certain way. There was also a lot of humour involved, so it was very entertaining … But sometimes [Francis] was just like, ‘Ugh, I can’t deal with this,’ and he’d just go into the Silverfish and direct from there.”

By the sound of things, the shoot became a clash between Coppola’s old-school approach, privileging spontaneity and “finding magic in the moment”, and newer digital film-making methods, such as filming actors in front of virtual CGI landscapes in a “volume” – effectively a giant wall of LED screens. Today’s technology enables directors to realise anything they can dream up – including utopian cities of the future – but working this way demands preparation and collaboration. “I think Coppola still lives in this world where, as an auteur, you’re the only one who knows what’s happening, and everybody else is there just to do what he asks them to do,” suggested one former crew member, who did not wish to be named.

The crew member sometimes found Coppola’s approach exasperating: “We had these beautiful designs that kept evolving but he would never settle on one. And every time we would have a new meeting, it was a different idea.” When the crew member insisted they needed to do more work to determine how the film was going to look, they say, Coppola replied: “How can you figure out what Megalopolis looks like when I don’t even know what Megalopolis looks like?”

A lot of time was, apparently, wasted. A second crew member recalls: “He would often show up in the mornings before these big sequences and because no plan had been put in place, and because he wouldn’t allow his collaborators to put a plan in place, he would often just sit in his trailer for hours on end, wouldn’t talk to anybody, was often smoking marijuana … And hours and hours would go by without anything being filmed. And the crew and the cast would all stand around and wait. And then he’d come out and whip up something that didn’t make sense, and that didn’t follow anything anybody had spoken about or anything that was on the page, and we’d all just go along with it, trying to make the best out of it. But pretty much every day, we’d just walk away shaking our heads wondering what we’d just spent the last 12 hours doing.” As a third crew member puts it: “This sounds crazy to say, but there were times when we were all standing around going: ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’”

Adam Driver’s first day on set was particularly memorable, a source suggests. One aspect of the story involves Driver’s character’s body fusing with some futuristic organic material. Rather than using digital techniques, Coppola wanted to achieve the effect through old-school methods, using projectors and mirrors, much as he had done on Dracula, 30 years earlier. “That’s great, except nobody can move,” says the crew member. “So they basically strapped Adam Driver into a chair for six hours, and they literally took a $100 projector and projected an image on the side of his head. I’m all for experimentation, but this is really what you want to do the first day with your $10m actor?” The effect would have been quick and easy to create digitally, they say. “So he [Coppola] spends literally half of a day on what could have been done in 10 minutes.”

“We were all aware that we were participating in what might be a really sad finish to his career,” says a crew member. But some of them felt “he was just so unpleasant toward a lot of the people who were trying to help facilitate the process and help make the movie better”.

Several sources also felt that Coppola could be “old school” in his behaviour around women. He allegedly pulled women to sit on his lap, for example. And during one bacchanalian nightclub scene being shot for the film, witnesses say, Coppola came on to the set and tried to kiss some of the topless and scantily clad female extras. He apparently claimed he was “trying to get them in the mood”.

Things came to a head in December 2022, roughly halfway through the 16-week shoot, when most of the visual effects and art teams were either fired or quit. “I think he had to work quite hard to then figure out how to replace them,” says Figgis. “I think he just wanted to liberate himself while he was shooting. So he didn’t have to wait for stuff, and then he’d say ‘Oh, I’ll fix it later. I’ll fix it in post – which I guess he’s done.”

The virtual “volume” was abandoned in favour of more traditional “green screen” technology”, according to one source: “His dig at us was always, ‘I don’t want to make a Marvel movie,’ but at the end of the day, that’s what he ended up shooting.”

In response to comments about Coppola’s on-set behaviour, the executive co-producer Darren Demetre stated: “I have known and worked with Francis and his family for over 35 years. As one of the first assistant directors and an executive producer on his new epic, Megalopolis, I helped oversee and advise the production and ran the second unit. Francis successfully produced and directed an enormous independent film, making all the difficult decisions to ensure it was delivered on time and on budget, while remaining true to his creative vision. There were two days when we shot a celebratory Studio 54-esque club scene where Francis walked around the set to establish the spirit of the scene by giving kind hugs and kisses on the cheek to the cast and background players. It was his way to help inspire and establish the club atmosphere, which was so important to the film. I was never aware of any complaints of harassment or ill behaviour during the course of the project.”

During the time he was shooting Megalopolis, Coppola was also contending with the fact that his wife, Eleanor, had become ill. She was on set and location during the making of the film “until her illness prevented her from being there”, a spokesperson says. She died last month.

Early reactions to Megalopolis have been mixed. After a private screening in Los Angeles last month, one executive described it as “batshit crazy”. Another told reporters: “There is just no way to position this movie.” A third said: “It’s so not good, and it was so sad watching it … This is not how Coppola should end his directing career.” Shortly before its Cannes premiere, the film was acquired by distributors in the major European markets.

Others, however, were fulsome in their praise. “I feel I was a part of history. Megalopolis is a brilliant, visionary masterpiece,” said the director Gregory Nava after the screening. “I was so overwhelmed that I couldn’t do anything for the rest of the day.” An anonymous viewer at a London screening went even further: “This film is like Einstein and relativity in 1905, Picasso and Guernica in 1937 – it’s a date in the history of cinema.”

None of this will be new to Coppola: despite reports of on-set chaos and predictions of doom, Apocalypse Now won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1979, though it would not be regarded as a classic until a decade later. “Francis has always had this reputation for being ahead of his time,” says Beggs. “He’s laughed at and tolerated with good humour, and then, 10 or 15 years later, people are saying: ‘The guy knew what was going to happen.’”

Despite its long and difficult gestation, Megalopolis’s themes could still resonate. “It takes the premise that the future … is being determined today, by the interests that are vying for control,” Coppola told an interviewer in 1999 . “We already know what happened to Rome. Rome became a fascist empire. Is that what we’re going to become?”

Whatever the outcome, Coppola can at least take personal satisfaction in having achieved his lifelong goal, against all expectations and obstacles. Perhaps the thought of making a shitty, embarrassing, pompous film is less frightening than that of never making it at all. When I interviewed him in 2010 , he told me: “I don’t think things through; I feel them through. And I know that half the time I might not land right, and maybe there’s a pleasure in that, but in my life I have to say, that’s served me well. When you’re this old guy dying, you don’t wanna say: ‘I wish I had done that and that.’ In my case, I did it. I did all the things other people would just regret that they didn’t try. Because, in the end, you die. You don’t get any award for just being conservative.”

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WNBA is entering a new era: Skyrocketing viewership, sold-out arenas, young stars

Sue Bird hopes that when she’s in her 50s and 60s, she can be like a former NBA player who currently throws out opinions on television. One model Bird sees for herself: Charles Barkley. She remembers multiple instances of hearing the Naismith Hall of Famer talk about his playing days on TNT’s “Inside the NBA.”

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“He’s like, ‘Oh, I had to fly commercial. I didn’t have these charter flights.’ Or, ‘Oh, these guys are making $40 million. Like, my contract was only —I don’t know, $10 million.’ And he kind of sounds disgruntled,” Bird said on NPR’s Fresh Air last month.

She wants to one day be able to toss out back-in-my-day tales. “I’ve always joked, I hope I’m that disgruntled athlete because that means all the blood, sweat and tears was for something,” she said. “It means the game has grown.”

Bird retired after two decades in the WNBA following the 2022 season. She hasn’t been out of the league even two full years (Bird technically jumped back in this April when she joined the Storm ’s ownership group), but the league she’ll watch this summer is already in a better place than it was when she retired.

Changes — both momentous and minute — are already aplenty as the 28th regular season begins Tuesday. For years, as Bird and recently retired Candace Parker graced the hardwood, the WNBA chipped away at areas of growth. But now the pace of the adjustments is explosive.

“To be very honest, the impact of the wave right now is more profound than I thought it was going to be,” Storm co-owner Lisa Brummel said. “It got to be a bigger wave a lot faster than what I think we projected it to be. And wow, I’ll say it feels amazing.”

"Expansions were always in the design. The moment has arrived where the investment matches, finally, us being able to put these ideas to fruition." — @chiney on the growth of the WNBA 📈 pic.twitter.com/Y6egBKMcgY — Get Up (@GetUpESPN) May 10, 2024

Television viewership numbers have skyrocketed across women’s basketball. April’s WNBA Draft averaged a record 2.47 million viewers , a 307 percent increase over last year, and it was the most-viewed WNBA telecast since 2000. The first preseason exhibition for Chicago Sky rookies Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso didn’t air on traditional television, but more than 500,000 viewers tuned in to a phone stream from a resourceful fan . It seems like a harbinger of what will come in the regular season, which tips off Tuesday.

“The growth is happening so fast,” said Cheryl Reeve, the Minnesota Lynx ’s coach and president of basketball operations. “It’s so accelerated. And I’ve been saying this in our own organization, that business as usual isn’t going to work anymore.”

The early viewership returns reflect the strengthened link between the college and professional games. Cardoso and the South Carolina Gamecocks’ win over Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in the 2024 national championship game averaged 18.9 million viewers, making it the most viewed women’s college basketball game ever and the most viewed basketball game (college or professional in men’s or women’s basketball) since 2019. The tournament was up 121 percent from 2023.

With a high-profile rookie class entering the league, WNBA attendance is swelling, too. No team had ever sold out its season ticket package in the offseason, but three teams (Las Vegas, Atlanta and Dallas ) did this year. Three games have also been moved to bigger venues to accommodate more fans who want to see Clark play.

How players arrive at those contests will be changing as well. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced last week that the league plans to add charter flights on a full-time basis sometime this season. The news came as the league’s existing charter policy appeared increasingly untenable in the long term.

WNBA will add charter flights on full-time basis this season

Clark and her Indiana Fever teammates traveled to Dallas for their first preseason game on a commercial airline and were greeted by a few fans and media members. They experienced no travel or security issues on their first road trip of the year, according to a team spokesperson. But one video clip showing Clark and center Aliyah Boston passing by a luggage carousel, with a member of the organization’s security team present, gained more than 2 million views. It served as a reminder of their current conditions.

Engelbert was uncommitted about when exactly a full-charter program would be implemented. She said the new travel program, which will cost about $25 million per year for the next two seasons, will launch “as soon as we can logistically get planes in places.” Still, the news of private travel was cause for celebration.

Lynx guard Kayla McBride called the change “a breath of fresh air.” Minnesota forward Napheesa Collier noted that with viewership increasing across women’s basketball, it was imperative to make the adjustment to protect player privacy.

“All these players in these spaces are becoming so popular that it really is about (safety) as much as it’s about recovery,” she said.

Even before Engelbert’s announcement, franchises around the league recognized the importance of increasing security. According to a person with knowledge of the Chicago Sky ’s plans, after not traveling with security last season, the franchise will travel with security this season. Every WNBA team will travel with security personnel on its commercial flights, for as long as they remain the standard.

There has also been additional security around the Sky at practices, which take place at a public facility in suburban Chicago. Sachs Recreation Center wrote in an email, obtained by The Athletic , to its community members that beginning April 29, two police officers would be onsite during all Sky practices for the remainder of the season. Their presence is new this year and the change appears likely to have been driven by the Sky’s desire to bolster its player safety.

Fever general manager Lin Dunn said Indiana was taking similar precautions to ensure every member of her franchise would be safe when flying commercial. In addition to having a full security team at home games, the Fever will be traveling with multiple full-time security members, employed by Pacers Sports and Entertainment, on all road trips, the team spokesperson added. Multiple members of their security team will also be present at ancillary team events, like they were at Indiana’s promotional photo shoot in downtown Indianapolis last week.

Those changes are reflective of a new era in the WNBA. Breanna Stewart , the No. 1 pick in 2016, recalled taking photos and signing autographs at airports without a security detail present during her rookie season.

The travel adjustments demonstrate a commitment to improving player experiences. New facilities provide another significant boost. By season’s end, the Storm and Mercury will have opened new spaces. The Storm debuted their 50,000-square foot performance center in April, equipped with state-of-the-art strength and conditioning equipment, a health and wellness suite, and an aquatics room — all of it designed and engineered by a group that was 85 percent women and people of color. The Mercury ’s will be part of one of the largest developments for a professional sports organization in the country, according to the franchise. It is expected to open by the time they host the mid-July All-Star Game.

Our new home 💚⛈️ pic.twitter.com/DHjRvHFEFR — Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) April 18, 2024

It should come as no surprise, then, that both added stars: Seattle signed 2016 league MVP Nneka Ogwumike and four-time first-team All-WNBA guard Skylar Diggins-Smith , while Phoenix bolstered its roster with 2021 Finals MVP Kahleah Copper and All-WNBA defensive team guard Natasha Cloud .

Having already become the first franchise to win consecutive titles in 21 years, the Las Vegas Aces will look to win a third straight this summer. Expect a standout season from their star, A’ja Wilson , who Nike announced on Saturday would be getting her own signature sneaker and clothing collection in 2025. Wilson is one of just over a dozen WNBA players ever to have a signature shoe and the first Black WNBA player to get a signature shoe since 2010.

All told, as Engelbert prepares to give the Aces their rings Tuesday night, she is glowing when thinking about the state of the WNBA. With league revenue having reportedly doubled since 2019, she said they have “huge investment” coming in through corporate and media partnerships. (The league’s existing media rights deal with ESPN ends after the 2025 season, and a new CBA could come into effect in 2026.) At April’s Draft, which was held in front of fans for the first time in eight years, feeling the positive momentum Engelbert said the WNBA was “ready for what’s next.”

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Expansion into new markets is part of what’s to come. A 13th franchise will begin play in the Bay Area in 2025, while a 14th team is reportedly set to launch in Toronto in 2026.

“We are witnessing a transformational moment in sports,” Engelbert said, “that we may not experience for generations.”

Bird, too, feels the added buzz. She said the sport has crossed a cultural cachet line. For that reason, it might not take Bird, 43, another seven years to become a semi-crotchety pundit. She might be able to tell stories about the old days before she even knows it.

(Photo of Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston and Temi Fagbenle: Gregory Shamus / Getty Images)

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Ben Pickman is a staff writer for The Athletic covering the WNBA and women’s college basketball. Previously, he was a writer at Sports Illustrated where he primarily covered women’s basketball and the NBA. He has also worked at CNN Sports and the Wisconsin Center for Journalism Ethics. Follow Ben on Twitter @ benpickman