We know where Sofia Coppola's SOMEWHERE is...

Sofia Coppola is a rare talent in the industry, not least because of her sex (can you name enough female directors to use both hands?) but because of her independent and strong writer/director voice that usually only comes with several decades working in the industry. Her three movies to date, The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette are works of an individual's artistic sensibility, and whether you like them or not (I like two of them, and dislike one of them) you have to admire that she is able to make her own movies, her way, in a world where so few are talented or driven enough to do the same. After shooting possibly the best tourism movie for a hotel in history with the Tokoyo set Lost in Translation (that hotel being Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel in Shinjuku if your interested), according to Variety, her fourth movie Somewhere will be set at the Chateau Marmont hotel at 8221 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Though this time, the hotel may play it's part as being the villain of the piece. No, not like The Shining or 1408 but in terms of the kind of hotel where celebrity excess is attracted. The hotel is famous for it's Hollywood happenings and scandals... a place where John Belushi died in 82, or where James Dean is said to have hopped through a window to audition for his most famous role in Rebel Without A Cause, or even where the reclusive Howard Hughes would spy on beautiful women in the pool from the converted attic. Now thanks to Coppola, it will also be the place where a bad-boy actor (played by Stephen Dorff) stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont receives an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning) who forces him to reexamine his own life. The film reunites Coppola with her with Focus Features, who financed Lost in Translation. Somewhere will shoot in L.A. and Italy in June and July and it sounds particularly similar to her Bill Murray/Scarlett Johansson film in terms of settings and themes and will hopefully have a message for the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton and maybe more importantly, those who follow their every movie through the press.