From the North Florida Herald
By Alexandra Chachkevitch
Soon, Newberry and Gainesville residents may get a chance to mingle with celebrities. The new year is scheduled to bring a $12 million Hollywood movie starring Burt Reynolds into town.
"The Ruby McCollum Story" is scheduled to be filmed in Newberry and Gainesville in spring of 2011, according to Newberry City Manager Keith Ashby, who announced the news at the City Commission meeting on Monday night.The Springtree Studios film stars Reynolds, who has been acting in movies for decades, as well as Matt Lanter ("Vampires Suck" and "Sorority Row") and is directed by Bill Duke, who is also known for directing "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit" and starring in "Predator," among other films.
The film is set in Live Oak during the early 1950s and is based on a bestselling book "Ruby McCollum: Woman in Suwannee County Jail" by William Bradford Huie.It is a true story about a murder of a white Florida state senator-elect by a wealthy African-American woman, who was denied her First Amendment right of free speech and sentenced to death in an electric chair by an all-white jury.
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