Recent off pouring $120 million of his personal fortune into Megalopolis, a film that has been referred to as “batshit crazy” and reportedly entails an extended scene of Jon Voigt’s character admiring his own boner, seminal auteur Francis Ford Coppola will not be resting on his laurels. As an alternative, he’s on to his subsequent massive, loopy enterprise enterprise: the launch of a resort designed particularly for filmmakers.
The All-Movie Hotel, positioned in Peach Tree, Georgia, presents 27 completely different lodging and contains “cutting-edge on-site post-production services, fostering a collaborative surroundings for filmmakers to edit, excellent, and showcase their work,” Coppola’s web site says. A small theater can be a part of the resort’s lodgings, so occasional film viewings are additionally, presumably, a part of the deal. The All-Film Lodge, which can be open to the general public on July twenty fifth, is a part of Coppola’s already present network of hotels, The Household Coppola Hideaways, which presently has different places in Belize, Guatemala, Argentina, and Italy.
“I fell in love with Peachtree Metropolis throughout my two years of residency right here whereas capturing Megalopolis,” Coppola writes on his website. “We created a unique place right here for filmmakers and movie fans as properly all our Hideaway company around the globe, to get pleasure from this new hideaway in addition to rubbing shoulders with filmmakers within the midst of their work!”
In different phrases, it feels like, even if you happen to’re not a filmmaker, you’ll be able to keep in Coppola’s new resort and, as he says, rub shoulders with the administrators or crew who could also be staying there.
For filmmakers, the resort boasts a number of cinema-making facilities, together with an “editorial wing” with particular person suites for manufacturing and sound enhancing, in addition to the theater, which can be utilized for screenings. Coppla’s web site notes that the situation additionally contains an “further ethernet patch bay that permits you to add a localized server and port out to all rooms/suites positioned throughout the property.”
The filmmaker’s new enterprise appears to have been an outgrowth of his time spent directing Megalopolis. “Once I didn’t wish to take into consideration the film, I’d take into consideration this resort, and after I didn’t wish to take into consideration the resort, I’d take into consideration the film,” Coppola says, in a promotional video in regards to the resort.
Coppola is an unconventional businessman, to say the least. The director of such titanic works of American cinema as The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now has by no means shied away from doing his personal factor. Along with his family-owned wineries and motels, Coppola has beforehand launched a cannabis company, a literary journal, a restaurant and cafe, and resorts, amongst different issues. As beforehand talked about, his most up-to-date image, Megalopolis, can be a self-funded work, one which has polarized audiences and critics, however is undeniably an unique, identical to Coppola.
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