The kids over at The Playlist have done some excellent digging and have subsequently come up with our first look at Sofia Coppola’s next film, titled SOMEWHERE, thanks to Collider‘s coverage of the recent American Film Market.

SOMEWHERE stars Stephen Dorff as “a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess.” Like so many of Hollywood’s brightest (and oddly transient) stars, Dorff’s Johnny Marco doesn’t even have a real home, he lives at the Chateau Marmont Hotel (a move Lindsay Lohan herself is famous for pulling in real life). Johnny’s life is shiftless and marked by all the fake trappings of mega-stardom. This is all put on its head by the arrival of his 11 year old daughter, Cleo (played by Elle Fanning). Predictably, Cleo changes everything, but the film not only tracks those immediate changes in Johnny’s life, but what happens when Cleo leaves him.

The film’s cast also includes Michelle Monaghan, Benicio del Toro (as a character hilariously listed as “Celebrity”), Robert Schwartzman (Jason’s baby bro and Coppola’s cousin), Chris Pontius (yes, that Chris Pontius), and the latest stars of “The Girls Next Door,” the Shannon twins. Clearly, Coppola is planning on showing the many sides of fame and the famous in SOMEWHERE. The film will also feature original music from Thomas Mars, Phoenix’s frontman and Coppola’s boyfriend.

SOMEWHERE will be Coppola’s first film since 2006’s MARIE ANTOINETTE. Coppola notoriously takes sizeable breaks between films, as she writes, directs, and produces all of them. MARIE, of course, came after her breakthrough film, 2003’s LOST IN TRANSLATION. It’s also worth noting that she did take four years between LOST IN TRANSLATION and THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (still one of my favorite works of the last decade or so). If long breaks are what it takes for Coppola to turn out her particular brand of dreamy, strangely moving films, my hopes are very high for SOMEWHERE.

The film is slated for release sometime in 2010.

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