Francis Ford Coppola has unveiled the latest addition to his travel portfolio, the all-movie hotel in Peachtree City, Georgia, outside Atlanta.
In addition to 27 rooms and suites, all designed by Coppola, the hotel also features a state-of-the-art production facility with two editing suites with laser projection and Meyer Sound 2.1 monitoring, two editing suites, offices, an ADR recording room and a conference room.
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Last year, Georgia’s film and television industry generated $4.3 billion. Peachtree City is 15 minutes from Trilith Studios, where numerous Marvel projects have been filmed.
Coppola said he was inspired while filming his latest project, “Megalopolis,” in Atlanta and wanted to create something that offered hospitality and the functionality needed for movies of any scale. “When I didn’t want to think about the movie, I thought about this hotel, and when I didn’t want to think about the hotel, I thought about the movie,” Coppola said.
The filmmaker converted the former Days Inn motel with post-production in mind. “We had to build six suites. And then we needed ‘mini suites.’ We needed facilities for special effects and rehearsals, even a small stage where we could shoot… which is what we did on this film,” Coppola said.
Coppola, who spent over 16 months in Peachtree City, did all of his post-production at the hotel and even shot some reshoots for “Megalopolis” there. He noted that the hotel is equipped with most of the things productions need, from dressing rooms to a recording studio to a 30-seat screening room. The hotel offers the crew a place to “live and form a close bond,” the filmmaker said.
The hotel’s screening room was named after filmmaker Dorothy Arzner. Arzner, one of the few female directors of the silent era, taught Coppola when he was a film student at UCLA. He said, “I benefited from the fact that she kind of liked me. She was always very encouraging.”
The all-movie hotel joins the Family Coppola Hideaways in Belize, Guatemala, Argentina and Italy. The all-movie hotel is the first location in the collection in the United States.
The hotel will open to the public on July 25th.
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