TORONTO – Production of New Line / DC’s feature film Shazam! helped to supercharge the Ontario economy by spending over $55 million in the Greater Toronto Area, says new data released by the Motion Picture Association – Canada.
The production spent more than $23.9 million on local goods and services at over 750 Ontario businesses, including $1.8 million on catering, baked goods and food items; $1.7 million on lumber and construction supplies; $360,000 on wardrobe; and $1.2 million on location fees, paid to households, businesses and community venues where the production was filmed, as well as for city, county and government permit fees.
In addition, the production created jobs for 3,457 local cast and crew, and spent more than $31.3 million on Ontario labour.
Now available in theatres, Shazam! is the original story of DC Comics character, Billy Batson, a streetwise 14-year-old foster kid turned adult superhero.
“The data released today reveals just how many talented industry professionals work in front of and behind the camera to make a major motion picture like Shazam!,” said Motion Picture Association – Canada president Wendy Noss, in the news release. “As a major film and television destination, Ontario is attracting the world’s most exciting productions because it offers so much by way of creative capacity, stable production incentives, gorgeous locations, and a wide range of businesses in every corner of the industry supply chain.”
