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UK taxpayers contributed £89m to the most expensive movie ever made
Scheme to boost British film industry leads to Universal Pictures pocketing millions of pounds for blockbuster Jurassic World: Rebirth
Recently filed documents reveal that HMRC gave its predecessor, 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion, £89.1m – believed to be the largest payment for a film since the UK government incentive scheme began in 2007. The latest data from the British Film Institute (BFI) shows that, in 2019, every £1 of reimbursement handed to studios generated £8.30 of additional Gross Value Added (GVA) benefit for Britain’s economy. Photograph: Landmark Media/AlamyReleased in December 2021, the BFI’s Screen Business report shows that, between 2017 and 2019, the incentives to studios yielded a record £13.5bn of return on investment to Britain’s economy and created more jobs than ever before.
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