OoP filming outside UK

[nicholas at adelanta.co.uk]

Lynda said:-

> I've read that a lot of films are moving out of England  and Scotland
>because the unions (I think that was the cause) have made things  too
>pricey in the
>UK.

It's not the unions, which are considerably less powerful these days than
they were 25 years ago. It's the government, who are abolishing
movie-makers' tax-breaks for filming in the UK.
As you can tell, our politicians are really, really far-sighted...

(snip)

> (PoA was shut down a while due to a strike over  wages),

Actually, I believe that PoA was one of the few movies not shut down. That
was an actors' strike, done to protest that actors didn't get a share in
the profits of the movies they were making. On PoA, agreement on a
profit-share had been reached, so no strike was necessary.

Cheers,
Nicholas