A US company which has worked on The Batman, the Planet of the Apes franchise and Star Wars television series The Mandalorian is to open a new studio in Scotland.
Los Angeles-headquartered Halon Entertainment has announced plans to invest £28m in the Glasgow facility, creating up to 250 jobs over the next three years.
The animation and visualisation firm has also worked on films including Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, John Wick: Chapter 4 and The Suicide Squad.
It has additionally worked on video games, including Fortnite, Marvel's Midnight Suns, and Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.
Halon said it was attracted to the Scottish city due to its "skilled workforce" and "world-renowned academic institutions".
President Chris Ferriter said: "With production happening across the globe, expanding our full-service studios on both sides of the Atlantic allows us to better support our clients with world-class services and top-tier talent, no matter where projects take them.
"Our new Scotland studio strengthens our ability to collaborate seamlessly across time zones and deliver exceptional work to even more productions worldwide."
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Halon was founded in 2003 and creates animation for game cinematics, real-time visualisation and virtual production for feature films, programmes and adverts.
Scotland's national economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise, is providing Halon with advisory services and £3.9m of funding towards the overall project cost.
Across Scotland, an estimated £617.4m was spent on the production of film, TV and audiovisual content in 2021, according to the most recent figures published by Screen Scotland.
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The nation boasts a growing range of studio, build space and conversion opportunities designed to accommodate major productions.
As well as the likes of Leith's FirstStage Studios (The Rig) and Cumbernauld's Wardpark Film and Television Studios (Outlander), plans are currently under way for a new film and TV studio campus in Stirling.
Glasgow itself has welcomed a number of Hollywood productions for filming, including The Batman, Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw, 1917, Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, and World War Z.
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Culture Secretary Angus Robertson said: "I greatly welcome this major investment from Halon Entertainment, which is a huge endorsement of the skills, talent and experience that Glasgow offers and the strength of Scotland's screen sector overall.
"It marks a major boost for the digital tech, film, TV, and games industries, reinforcing Scotland's position as a global hub for creative technology.
"Together with Scottish Enterprise and Screen Scotland, the Scottish government is committed to accelerating the growth of our screen sector.
"Inward investment like this is a key driver of that growth and the cultural and economic opportunities that come with that, including hundreds of good, well-paying jobs."
