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Released
2016 · FILM

Live by Night

An ambitious bootlegger in 1920s Florida risks everything to build an empire, clashing with rival gangs and the Ku Klux Klan in a dangerous game of power and survival.

“Joe was once a good man.”

Directed by
Ben Affleck
Written by
Dennis Lehane, Ben Affleck
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
129 min
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

During the Prohibition era, a group of gangsters from Boston establish themselves in sunny Florida, where they encounter rival competition and opposition from the Ku Klux Klan.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by William GoldenbergShot by Robert RichardsonScored by Harry Gregson WilliamsDesigned by Jess Gonchor

Box Office

2016 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$22.7M

Budget$90.0M
Worldwide gross$22.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $75K

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Live by Nightde
  • La legge della notteit

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