In June, California officially passed its new tax incentives to stop runaway production from the state and from Los Angeles specifically, and today, FilmLA released its first report of the quarter in LA since those incentives were passed.
The bad news is, shoot days in LA were still down in Q3 compared to where they were in 2024, a decline of 13.2 percent compared to July through September this same time last year. The good news is, FilmLA doesn’t seem phased at the dip over the summer just yet, and in fact the organization believes the effects of the passage of Ab 1138 are already showing things heading in the right direction.
“We know that it will take a little while for new incentive-backed projects to get underway and be reflected in our data, so we were not surprised to see on-location production continue to slip this summer despite the state’s increased investment,…