The Chateau Marmont has had its share in the spotlight, most recently in the Sofia Coppola-helmed flick Somewhere. But now the West Hollywood hotel will have its own starring role in a new miniseries from Office star John Krasinski and Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin, Deadline Hollywood reported.

The duo will executive produce the hotel-set HBO show with hotelier Andre Balazs and his daughter Alessandra. (Aha! So this is that TV show Andre was working on.) It will be based off the book Life at the Marmont by former hotel co-owner Raymond R. Sarlot and Fred Basten.]]> Jennifer Kester 2011-06-27T10:19:59-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/12/24/94922/612 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/somewhere_chateaumarmont_movie.jpg" class="top"><p> The critics so far have loved <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/sofia coppola"><b>Sofia Coppola's</b></a> latest movie, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/2/10/142755/577/hotels/Sofia_Coppola_s_New_Movie_Somewhere_Takes_Place_at_Chateau_Marmont">Somewhere</a>, which takes place (as every hotel geek already knows) in the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Chateau+Marmont/local/174"><b>Chateau Marmont</b></a> in West Hollywood. And now, we can finally go see it for ourselves.<p>The movie was released on Wednesday in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington and we just happen to be in one of those cities right now. The movie will have a wider national release in January.<p>In case you haven't read our previous stories on the movie, this is what it's about: <blockquote><p>Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood&#146;s legendary Chateau Marmont juliana 2010-12-24T09:59:39-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/13/823/98053

This weekend, the Venice Film Festival came to a close and the big winner was the Chateau Marmont.

Well, OK, it was director Sofia Coppola who snagged the Golden Lion for Best Film--but the real star of that film, Somewhere, is the West Hollywood celeb haunt. (Sorry, Dorffy.)

Coppola said that the award would help the film's chances once it is released in December--and we're betting that the movie will also make the Chateau's decadent allure even more irresistible.

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As Jennifer Aniston can attest, old hotel habits die hard. Lindsay Lohan has only been out of rehab less than a week but she's already making her way around town. And her first hotel stop out of rehab? The Chateau Marmont of course. At 11pm at night. Radar Online reports:

Lindsay drove to hotel in a brand new $150,000 Maserati Gran Turismo, with her friend Eilat Anschel arriving there at about 11 pm. They stayed for just over two hours, hanging out in the lounge with other friends.

]]> juliana 2010-08-30T08:35:43-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/2/10/142755/577 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Somewhere_sofia_coppola_Stephen_dor.jpg" class="top"><p> These days it's impossible to flip through the gamut of television channels fed in by eager cable providers without spotting a hotel as the setting for a reality show adventure or a competition/contest or even a highly sought-after news interview (Remember <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/6/95142/9902/hotels/Who_Did_What_and_Where_in_This_Week_s_Infamous_Hotels">Rihanna at GPH?</a>). Heck, even Boomer Esiason and the Geico Caveman were shilling for Westin Hotels during the Super Bowl Pre-Game show.<p>Yet when it comes to true hotel stardom, the big screen still rules. Case in point: <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/12/21/134135/32/hotels/Hilton_Hotels_Puts_Up_in_the_Air_on_Their_Keycards">Hilton Hotels</a> got a huge lift from being prominently featured in George Clooney's Oscar-nominated pic, <i>Up in the Air.</i> The same goes for any hotel featured in the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Sex%20and%20The%20City">Sex and the City</a> movies. And the entire juliana 2010-02-10T14:42:10-05:00 34.0977700 -118.36831 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/