![]() It's not the first time Florida has been skipped over for filming in recent years. "A lot of us in the Tampa Bay region were trying to keep it where it belonged," Corcoran said. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarasota County Film and Entertainment Office Director Jeanne Corcoran said they reached out to the movie about filming on location. Filming also took place in California and on location in Boston. But a preacher (Elle Fanning) crusading against the evils of gambling to a growing crowd threatens the project’s approval.Īffleck visited Tampa and scouted locations, but chose to recreate Ybor City in Brunswick, Georgia, and film there instead due to the lack of state tax incentives in Florida. Longboat Key is the location of a hotel and casino that Coughlin hopes to build as his way out of crime and into legitimacy. ![]() Petersburg resident Dennis Lehane’s novel, also titled "Live by Night," about Joe Coughlin, a petty criminal from Boston who moves to Ybor City to run a big-time Prohibition-era rum operation. Moviegoers around the world will see and hear the name of Longboat Key in Ben Affleck’s new film “Live by Night” this weekend, even though it wasn’t filmed there.Īffleck directs and stars in the movie opening in wide release Friday, which adapts onetime St. ![]()
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