Hollywood’s Most Thrilling Scenes Are Now Orchestrated Thousands of Miles Away

I've worked in the VFX industry and I find the subsidy situation fascinating. Canada and England have provided large subsidies to movie studios on visual effects work in a (successful) attempt to create visual effects industries of their own. Visual effects production is technically very complex and the artists who work in that industry often have years of training, so it's a bit disturbing to see that an entire industry that was created in the US can be uprooted pretty quickly simply through a government subsidy.

I'm actually surprised Canada hasn't tried this strategy with tech. One other interesting note about this situation is that the WTO (World Trade Organization) has rules that appear to be violated by these subsidies, but it seems doubtful that a case will ever be brought forward because VFX workers aren't unionized/organized and powerful movie studios have a huge financial interest in keeping these subsidies going.