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Where the shallows movie was filmed?

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Grace Evans

Updated on February 28, 2026

Filming. Principal photography on the film began on October 28, 2015 in New South Wales, Australia. Filming also took place at Lord Howe Island, Mount Tamborine, Queensland and Village Roadshow Studios.Click to see full answer. Then, what beach was the shallows filmed on?For the most part, The Shallows was shot on a sandy beach in Australia. So, that clear blue water you see, and the picturesque trees, those exist in the physical world — that’s all real. In fact, the New South Wales, Australia, beach where they shot was probably as close to Nancy’s Paradise as possible.Additionally, is the film shallows a true story? Blake Lively’s new movie The Shallows isn’t based on a true story, at least not that we know of. The Shallows follows in the fictional footsteps of Jaws as a fictional shark attack movie, but there are a few shark movies that are actually based on true events (terrifying, I know). Regarding this, was the shallows filmed in the ocean? After some sleuthing on IMDB, I learned that most of the movie was shot in a giant pool inside a studio in Queensland, Australia. Yet there was also a magical, mystical island that, according to Lively in an interview on the Today Show, said had never featured filming before: Lord Howe Island.Did Blake Lively actually surf in the shallows movie?With the actor’s new shark-thriller The Shallows opening in theaters on June 24, it’s only fitting to wonder: does Blake Lively surf in real life? In a 2010 article written by Hamish Bowles for Vogue, Lively admitted that she had only ever “surfed once before.” But that was then.