London Revels in Movie Star Status
The hub of European movie making is no longer Fellini's Rome or Truffaut's Paris. It's Boris Johnson's London.
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U.K. film production soared 35 percent to almost 1.5 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) during 2014 as tax breaks lured stars from Tom Cruise to Scarlett Johansson to the city.
London alone accounted for 1 billion pounds of production spending, eclipsing France's 994 million euros ($1.1 billion), or Italy, where 400 million euros was spent in 2013, the latest figure available.