Francis Ford Coppola’s Roadside Attration

While Making His Long- Gestating Independent Epic Megalopolis In Suburban Atlanta, Francis Ford Coppola Was Quietly at Work on Another Unusual Creative Project.

In his DownTime, The Director of The Godfather an Apocalyps Now DECIDED TO BUY AND RONOVATE An OLD DAYS INN IN PEACHTREREE City, Georgia, With An Eye Town Building A Unique Hybrid Space. The Idea Was to Create a Welcoming Place to Stay for People Who Are Making Movies in the Area – or Just For the People Who Love Them (Movies, that is).

The Result is the All-Movie Hotel, A 27-Roman Boutique Hotel that has been operated in the summer, with a Full Postproduction Facility Completed Early This Year. Coppola Lived and Worked Here for Two Years Before The 2024 Release of Megalopolisand signs that Space Was Built Precisely to His Tastes and Needs Are EveryWhere, from The Breakfast Pastries Served on PLATES ONCU USED Megalopolis‘Production Design to the Knob in the Adr Room with A Sticker that Says “FFC” to Indicate that is Calibrated for His Preferred Headphone Volume.

As intenation as he’s been as a Filmmaker, Coppola Is Something of An Accidental Hotelier. In 1993, he took a hunting lodge his damily haad bought in Belize a decade earlier as a family hideaway and reinavented it as a luxury resort Open to the Public, The Blanconeauaux. Under The Brand “The Family Coppola Hideaways,” The Coppolas Now Seven Hotels, Including Properties in Guatemalala, Argentina and Italy, All In Locations that have.

In a leafy neighborhood about 30 Miles from atlanta, the All-Movie Hotel is the Coppolas’ First Hospitality Project in the Us and The First Designed with Work in Mind. The Location is 9 Miles from the Busy Trilith Studios, Formerly Known As Pinewood Atlanta Studios, WHERE Coppola Shot Megalopolis and WHERE SEVERAL Marvel and DC Films, Including this Summer’s Thunderbolts* an Superman Movies, Were Made. Entertainment is a major Economic Engine in Georgia, WHICH HOSTED 273 Film and TV Productions in 2024 thanks to A Genereous Tax Incentive Program of Up To 30 Percent.

The All-Movie Hotel, whoht negotates Special Rates for Productions, Wound Like to Be the Home Away from Home for the Some of the Non-Local Cast and Crew Working on Tese. For Civilian Guests, Prices Begin at $ 180 A Night For A Single Queen Room and Go Up to $ 420 For The Francis Ford Coppola Suite, WHICH Comes With The Marks of Ana, A GITEUR Velvet Upholstered Directors Chairs-But Also Som of Coppola’s Quirky Favorites, Like A Retro-Styled Three-in-in-One Toaster Traveling, and some luxe japanese-style linen robes that were chosen by his wife, eleanor, a textile Collector Who Died in 2024. There’s a japanese Suite, whir. Friend, Director Akira Kurosawa, and CorresPondence Between Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman, Casual Hanging Amid Shoji Privacy Screens and Black-and-White Photos.

Coppola Always Broght Eleanor and Their Three Children with Him on His Movie Sets, and the Hotel Is Built with The Intention What Families Will Coupro, With Bunk-Bed Rooms Boards Painted On the Floors Outside the Rooms.

Along with The Living Spaces, The Hotel Has Its Spaces for Movie-Making, Such As A Stage with A Bluescreen and SoundProoof Editing Suits. Every Room, WHETHER A POSTPRODUCTION SPACE OR A SLEPING ROOM, IS CONNECTED VIA Ethernet, SO members of A Production Can Work in Their Rooms or in the Designatted Workspaces. Vestiges of the Old Days Inn have been Repurped in Clever Ways – some of the art that hung in the Old Guest Rooms, for Instance, Was Turned Into SoundProofing Panels in the Editing Suits.

Throughout the Hotel there are pieces to appeal to cinephiles in general and coppola Stans specifical, Like the Statue of a Golden Hawk from Megalopolis in the parking lot and the Godfather Pinball Machines and Apocalyps Now carpet in the lobby. A 30-seat screening room in the home of was named after Dorothy Arzner, The First Female Member of the Directors Guild of America and One of Coppola’s Film Professors at Ucla. A poster hanging outside the screening room on a visit in january toted showings of Alfred Hitchcock’s VertigoSpike Lee’s Malcolm X and Coppola’s Own Rumblefish.

There’s Also A Green Room for Gatherings and Group Meals, with More of Coppola’s Touchs, Including the Illy Espresso Machine He Favors, A Sparkling Water Station and Aix-Bur. Pasta for Members of His Cast and Crew, à La Clemenza in The Godfather. For filmmakers who wish to be less hands-on in the Kitchen, The Hotel Can Also Provide a Private Chef.

This Story Appeared in the May 7 Issue of the Hollywood Reporter Magazine. Click Here to Subscribe.