Francis Ford Coppola Launches a Hotel For Filmmakers in Georgia

Francis Ford Coppola has announced he is launching a hotel for filmmakers called the All-Movie Hotel in Georgia’s Peachtree City, outside of Atlanta.

The hotel has 27 rooms and all of the suites were designed by Coppola. The hotel also features a state-of-the-art production facility with two edit suites with laser projection and Meyer Sound 2.1 monitoring, two edit bays, offices, ADR recording room and a conference room.

Coppola was inspired to create this hotel while filming his latest project Megalopolis in Atlanta and was looking to build something that offered hospitality and the functionality needed to make films on any scale.

The filmmaker said: “When I didn’t want to think about the movie, I would think about this hotel, and when I didn’t want to think about the hotel, I’d think about the movie.”

The All-Movie Hotel was previously a Days Inn Motel and the whole thing was obviously remodeled to fit Coppola’s vision. He said: “We had to build six suites. And then we needed ‘Mini-Suites.’

“We had to have special effects facilities and rehearsal facilities, even a little stage that we could shoot in…which we did shoot in on this picture.”

Coppola actually conducted all of his post-production work for Megalopolis at the hotel and even did some reshoots there as well.

The hotel also includes a 30-seat screening room. The director added that the hotel offers a crew the ability to “live and intimately connect.”

The hotel’s screening room was named after filmmaker Dorothy Arzner. She was one of the few female directors of the silent era and she taught Coppola when he was a film student at UCLA. He said of her: “I benefited from the fact that she sort of liked me. She was always very encouraging.”

The hotel will open to the public on July 25.

Source: Variety