Inside Francis Ford Coppola’s All-Movie Hotel

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 and Apocalypse Now decided to buy and renovate an old Days Inn in Peachtree City, Georgia, with an eye toward 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-room boutique hotel that opened 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 Megalopolis, and signs that the space was built precisely to his tastes and needs are everywhere, from the breakfast pastries served on plates once used as part of Megalopolis‘ production design to the knob in the ADR room with a sticker that says “FFC” to indicate that it’s calibrated for his preferred headphone volume.

As intentional as he’s been as a filmmaker, Coppola is something of an accidental hotelier. In 1993, he took a hunting lodge his family had bought in Belize a decade earlier as a family hideaway and reinvented it as a luxury resort open to the public, the Blancaneaux Lodge. Under the brand “The Family Coppola Hideaways,” the Coppolas now have seven hotels, including properties in Guatemala, Argentina and Italy, all in locations that have some personal meaning to them.

In a leafy neighborhood about 30 miles from Atlanta, the All-Movie Hotel is the Coppolas’ first hospitality project in the U.S. 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* and Superman movies, were made. Entertainment is a major economic engine in Georgia, which hosted 273 film and TV productions in 2024 thanks to a generous tax incentive program of up to 30 percent.

The All-Movie Hotel, which negotiates special rates for productions, would like to be the home away from home for some of the non-local cast and crew working on these projects. 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 an auteur — a giant cinema screen and projector, velvet upholstered directors chairs — but also some of Coppola’s quirky favorites, like a retro-styled three-in-one toaster, coffee maker and griddle that he likes to use to make his breakfast when he’s 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, which has an original art piece by Coppola’s friend, director Akira Kurosawa, and correspondence between Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman, casually hanging amid shoji privacy screens and black-and-white photos of Japanese film icons.

Coppola always brought Eleanor and their three children with him on his movie sets, and the hotel is built with the intention that families will come here too, with bunk-bed rooms, a children’s playroom and hopscotch 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 soundproof editing suites. Every room, whether a postproduction space or a sleeping room, is connected via Ethernet, so members of a production can work in their rooms or in the designated workspaces. Vestiges of the old Days Inn have been repurposed in clever ways — some of the art that hung in the old guest rooms, for instance, was turned into soundproofing panels in the editing suites.

Throughout the hotel there are pieces to appeal to cinephiles in general and Coppola stans specifically, like the statue of a golden hawk from Megalopolis in the parking lot and the Godfather pinball machines and Apocalypse Now carpet in the lobby. A 30-seat screening room in the hotel is 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 touted showings of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Spike 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 touches, including the Illy espresso machine he favors, a sparkling water station and a six-burner Wolf range where he liked to cook 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.