The government has come under fire after it emerged that a record £60.9m of taxpayers' cash was handed to Disney last year to film the Ryan Reynolds superhero movie Deadpool & Wolverine in London – despite the studio making £3bn of operating profit in 2024.
It is understood to be the largest sum ever handed to a movie production company in a single year since the government introduced its incentives to attract film makers to the UK in 2007.
