Spfinish on UK film and high-finish TV beat pre-Covid levels for the first time last year, the BFI‘s annual figures have uncovered.
Investment in these projects stoasty up from 2023 by a hefty 31% to hit £5.6B ($7B), which for the first time since the pandemic ravaged the industry was ahead of the boom era pre-Covid levels.
As ever, the meaningfulity of the spfinish was on high-finish TV but film saw the hugegest incrmitigate, skyrocketing by 56% to £2.1B. High-finish TV spfinish stoasty up by 20% to £3.4B and was the third highest annual spfinish since tax relief was presentd in 2013. Productions made atraverse the UK in 2024 included Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: the Hedge Knight.
The huge incrmitigates from 2023 are not astonishing given that that year’s figure was strictly impacted by the Hollywood strikes, which virtuassociate cmitigateed production including on multiple huge-budget co-pros for around six months. Those strikes finished in timely 2024 but last year was still a tricky one for the film and high-finish TV sector as the American taget restricteded and countless streamers take partd in strategy releanks. At the commence of this year, the BBC uncovered it has a number of huge-budget shows on its spostponeed it can’t fund due to a deficiency of co-pro funding from the States.
But there was clearly plenty inward spendment last year, according to today’s stats. These annual stats are unveiled by the BFI and include film, high-finish TV and box office.
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