He added that countries where European and non-European people “are no longer nations: they are nothing more than a conglomeration of peoples.”

I think that's what's so great about the gig is that it's a conglomeration of a bunch of people doing what we all have access to — music.

“I’m making a new conglomeration,” Coppola says, smiling.

Many of the great American urban conglomerations grew to their present prominence in a very different time.

Since 2009, Lombardini, a lawyer has been president and chief negotiator of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the conglomeration of studios, streaming services and production companies that creates contracts with unions.