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Meet The Man Who Stopped Disney From Losing Half A Billion Dollars On Two Movies

It's no secret that 2023 got off to a bad start for Marvel Studios. Surprisingly, the worst was yet to come.

As we regularly report, studios filming in the UK often incorporate a subsidiary company to make each picture there and they have to file financial statements showing everything from the total sum spent on it right down to the pension contribution paid to the staff who worked on it. Dave Benett/Getty ImagesAccording to the Daily Mail Osborne worked closely with Lucasfilm's president Kathleen Kennedy to ensure the new slate of films, directed by JJ Abrams, were made in the UK, snatching them away from rivals including Canada. Testimony to this, the latest data from the British Film Institute (BFI) shows that in 2019, every $1.31 (£1) of reimbursement handed to studios generated $10.88 (£8.30) of additional Gross Value Added (GVA) benefit for the UK economy.

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