The amount of money given as an incentive to bring the Batgirl movie shoot to Glasgow was 20 times that given to any other production in the last five years.
Glasgow City Council agreed to give Warner Bros £150,000 to shoot the entire production in the city - the first major production to ever do so.
A Freedom of Information request shows that between 2017 and 2021, all other Glasgow Film Office grants were capped at just £7,500.
The likes of Man & Witch, The Nest, The Cry, and Shetland all received the same amount of money to go towards the cost of hiring local facilities and services for productions based in Glasgow.
Batgirl, which is continuing to film in the city, has received the most cash of any production in the last five years - amounting to 20 times that ever handed out before.
The specifics of how the money given to the Batgirl production has been spent is deemed 'commercially sensitive'.
Councillor Ruairi Kelly, who chairs Glasgow City Council's neighbourhoods, housing, and public realm committee, said that all of the spending 'benefits the wider economy'.
We reported how Glasgow businesses have suffered a dramatic loss of earnings caused by street closures to enable filming of the blockbuster.
One business owner said their trade had been 'decimated' over the 7-day filming period on Glassford Street with a loss of between £7,000 and £10,000 estimated.
In January, Trongate clothing store Social Recluse said the disruption caused by the film was so bad that they had to close.
With crews now set to move to another part of the city and further closures expected, concerns have been raised that more businesses could be affected while already struggling to recover from the most recent restrictions.
Stuart Patrick, chief executive of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, said: “The creative and filming industries’ growth within Glasgow has been a welcome and vital contributor to the cities economy over the past few years.
“Glasgow has both the skills base and the expert business support to deliver truly world-class productions and we hope to attract even more opportunities in the future.
“However, it is absolutely right that the local businesses which are most impacted by road closures or reduced footfall as a direct result of filming are properly compensated for their sacrifice.
“Whilst these projects are very much welcome, we cannot place their needs over the longstanding local businesses of Glasgow.”
