MONTREAL – The production of Twentieth Century Fox / Marvel’s superhero film Dark Phoenix helped to bolster Quebec’s economy by spending over $189 million, says new data released by the Motion Picture Association – Canada.
During more than 22 weeks of filming in Montreal and the surrounding areas, Dark Phoenix spent over $77 million on local wages alone, creating more than 1,670 jobs for local cast, crew, and production office personnel. An additional $40 million was spent creating the film’s innovative special effects at Quebec’s visual effects houses.
The production also supported over 2,800 Quebec businesses from more than 230 communities, and spent over $72 million on a range of local goods and services including approximately $27.6 million on rentals like grip, lighting, set dressing and props; $3.4 million on hotels and accommodations; $4.8 million on construction supplies; and $2.9 million on catering and craft services.
Dark Phoenix is the culmination of 20 years of X-Men movies and sees the family of mutants face their most devastating enemy yet — one of their own. It is the third X-Men film in the series to use Quebec as home to its production investment.
“Quebec has become an increasingly popular destination for film and television production in Canada,” said Motion Picture Association – Canada president Wendy Noss, in the news release. “The data released today demonstrates the massive impact productions like Dark Phoenix can have on the people working in Quebec’s growing film and television industry, and the wide-range of local businesses supported by millions of dollars in goods and services purchased from hundreds of local communities.”
Dark Phoenix is now in theatres.
