The Godfather Part II had its nationwide release on Dec. 20, 1974, and accomplished a few things that were, up to that time, unheard of for a sequel film — even besting its predecessor at the ...
The filmmaker asked Paramount to pay him a salary of $1 million (exorbitant at the time) and suggested they call it “The Godfather Part II,” inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s Soviet film ...