Since UK finance minister Gordon Brown put film industry tax breaks under review, Hollywood giants have deserted UK studios such as Pinewood, often for eastern Europe. The amount spent on production in the UK last year declined by 31 percent from 2004 to US$983 million, according to statistics published this week by the UK Film Council.
Even that figure was buoyed by increased investment by British film-makers. Big budget projects such as Stormbreaker, featuring teenage spy Alex Rider, and Sir Richard Eyre's Notes on a Scandal.
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