Hollywood films made in the United Kingdom

“Lights, camera … Price?” – This is the question that a film industry is asking this week after an unexpected intervention by US President Donald Trump.

Writing on his Truth social platform last Sunday, Trump announced his intention to strike films made in foreign countries with 100%prices, while he tries to prevent Hollywood from dying “very fast death”.

His threat comes as studios are increasingly moving productions abroad to places such as the United Kingdom.

The White House has since said that “no final decision” has been made and that they “explore all the options” to revitalize the American film industry.

But Trump’s suggestion alone has sent shock waves in the industry – from Hollywood to Hertfordshire – So what could all that mean in practice?

In 2014, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was shot dead by Disney in Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, and Hollywood has continued to get closer to the United Kingdom since.

Last year, the British Film Institute said that 65% of British production expenses came from the five major American cinema studios and three American streaming giants – Netflix, Apple and Amazon. This amounted to 1.37 billion pounds sterling ($ 1.71 billion), a jump of almost 50% on 2023.

In Hollywood, on the other hand, film and television production in Los Angeles has dropped almost 40% over the past decade.

The reason? Well in large part, It is cheaper to make films in the United Kingdom. It is thanks to generous tax incentives such as the reduction in the film on the film, which offers a tax discount of 25% – as well as lower labor costs and centralized national funding for the film.

As the British actor Brian Cox said Times Radio on Tuesday: “The reality is that the films go where they can afford.”

To blockbuster Jurassic World: Dominion d’Iniversal, these incentives delivered 89.1 million pounds sterling (111.38 million dollars) in savings.

In the United States, tax incentives operate at the state level – and Hollywood has relatively mediocre tax alternatives – not only compared to the United Kingdom, which can also offer 10% more, but other states such as New York and Georgia.

Repairing is not an easy task. Trump appointed award -winning actor Golden Globe Jon Voight, 86, as a special ambassador in Hollywood, and met him one day before dropping his light proposal on detail.

But we don’t know exactly how prices would solve the internal tax problem in the United States. A possible solution, raised by Voight, is a federal tax incentive to reflect the United Kingdom.

The journalist of the Wrap film, Jeremy Fuster, told the BBC that he is “unlikely”, in the very busy climate, that the Republicans “would support a federal tax incentive which can easily be described as a document to” awake Hollywood “”.

And what would be the impact on moviegoers if the sample was going forward?

FUSTER says that costs, like any other good tariff, would be transmitted to the public by the price of tickets, increases on demand for a premium or subscription rates.

How it would take exactly the form is “something that no one knows”.

This is not a question of money, because although American production can benefit from parts of the industry, some projects will still have to shoot abroad. “Amazon will not do the next James Bond entirely in America,” notes Fuster.

The Minister of Culture, Sir Chris Bryant, said that the British government was in “active discussions with the American administration summit” on the “very fluid” situation.

With all this in mind, do you know which films have been made in the United Kingdom in recent years? BBC News examined it below – and they could be closer to your home than you think.

Warner Bros Leavesden Studio in the Hertfordshire, best known for producing Harry Potter films, was used as a set for many Hollywood blockbusters, including Barbie, Mickey 17, Venom: The Last Dance and Beetlejuice Beetlejuce.

The Sky Studios nearby Elstree in Borehamwood was transformed into the magical world of Oz in 2023 while it welcomed its first production, Wicked.

Beyond Hertfordshire, cities like Glasgow have long been used as a shooting hub for Hollywood films.

Brad Pitt’s opening scene’s opening scene, the First World War, can look like Philadelphia, but the film was shot in George Square in the Scottish city.

In November, the city was transformed into a dystopian New York while Glen Powell was spotted to film for the upcoming thriller The Running Man.

It is not only dystopian films that are shot in Glasgow – in 2021, star banners, bruant and vintage store fronts decorated the streets of downtown Glasgow for Indiana Jones and the Destin dial.

The city was used for a parade scene which seems to capture New York from the 1960s while Apollo astronauts returned home.

The latest film by Indiana Jones was also shot in the north of England with the Château de Bamburgh in the north of Northumberland in the opening scenes.

The castle doubled for Nazi Germany torn apart by the 1944 war.

Other scenes have been shot down along the North York Moors railway line in Grosmont, and the Leaderfoot viaduct, above the Tweed river, near Melrose, on the Scottish borders.

In 2022, the Batman used Glasgow cathedral, the necropolis and the sigh deck to create Gotham City, based on New York.

Addressing the BBC in 2022 regarding the choice of filming, the director Matt Reeves said that it was important to film in a place where there was a “beautiful Gothic architecture”.

“I wanted it to look like an American Gothic city, but to which you never aligned,” he said. “So we went to Glasgow and honestly, it was so beautiful.”

The main actor of the film, Robert Pattinson, said: “He looks great like Gotham, who would have thought of all the cities of the world, Glasgow like Gotham?”

The Saint Martins Central Art School in London was also used as a building in Gotham City, just like some parts of Liverpool.

Fans with lively eyes will see that the Gotham City police service is actually the tour of the liver building clock, although the giant liver bird has been a airbrush.

The spider-off of Spider-Man Morbius was filmed in the northern district of Manchester and in 2010, the city became Brooklyn of the 1940s for Captain America: The First Avenger, with Chris Evans.

Liverpool’s early 20th century buildings also made a popular replacement for the older skyscrapers in New York. Liverpool was transformed into New York from the 1920s for fantastic animals and where to find them, which sees Eddie Redmayne searling in the city his magic animals escaped.

The recent Snow White film live from Disney has been almost entirely filmed in the United Kingdom, with Pinewood studios used for many interior scenes and decorations.

A career in the Lake District, a Pembrokshire beach, in Wales and a Burnham nature reserve, were also used as shooting.

In addition to Snow White, the new thriller of Netflix Havoc, with Tom Hardy and located in an anonymous American city, was filmed in Wales.

The Welsh director of the film Gareth Evans, said that it was “difficult” to recreate an American city in the south of Wales, but he wanted to bring more work in the region.

Brangwyn Hall of Swansea has doubled while the exterior of a fictitious city police station while the rue Street de Cardiff has been transformed into an American boulevard with 30 cm (12 inches) of false snow for one of the night scenes of Havoc.

Other Hollywood superproductions that have seen the majority of their shooting – known as the main photography – in the United Kingdom, include:

• Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
• Back in action (2025)
• A quiet place: the first day (2024)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
• Aquaman and the lost kingdom (2023)