Campaigners have called on the government to stop subsidising Hollywood movies after it emerged that Universal Pictures pocketed £80.5 million of taxpayers' cash to make its two Wicked fantasy films in the UK even though the studio made profits of $1.1 billion (£810 million) last year.
Headlined by mega stars Ariana Grande and Jeff Goldblum, the two movies, Wicked, and Wicked : For Good, are prequels to the 1939 classic, The Wizard Of Oz, and tell the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West.
