{"id":369178,"date":"2026-06-21T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/369178\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:40:33","slug":"other-cities-stole-hollywood-from-los-angeles-now-la-wants-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/369178\/","title":{"rendered":"Other cities stole Hollywood from Los Angeles, now LA wants it back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles is like that guy or girl who starts fighting for you again, only when they realize you have options \u2013 really attractive ones, who are wining and dining you.<\/p>\n

Except you\u2019re Hollywood and you\u2019re spending more time filming in cities like Atlanta, Santa Fe, Vancouver, London, Budapest, Sydney, and Limerick.<\/p>\n

LA is finally snapping out of its complacency and entitlement, now that its local film industry is in crisis, and it\u2019s losing one of the crown jewels of its economy to cities around the world.<\/p>\n

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The Culver Studios where an episode of the Amazon Prime series \u201cBallard\u201d is being filmed in Culver City,. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post<\/p>\n

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Councilmember Adrin Nazarian holding a press conference with film and television workers at Los Angeles City Hall. MediaNews Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve lost camera houses. We\u2019ve lost props houses, wardrobe houses. It\u2019s the make-or-break moment to become Detroit or not,\u201d said Noelle Stehman, a showrunner and co-founder of the grassroots organization Stay in LA.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a movement of film industry professionals and key partners in City Hall, Los Angeles is starting to cut red tape and fees in order to incentivize Hollywood productions to shoot in Los Angeles, again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are supposed to be the film capital of the world. It should be the easiest and cheapest place. But it is both the most expensive and the most difficult,\u201d Stehman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s death by a thousand needles, so to speak,\u201d added Henrik Bastin, executive producer of Amazon MGM Studios crime drama \u201cBallard.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been shooting here in LA since 2013, 2014, every year, and I think that it\u2019s gotten more and more complicated, by each year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pam<\/p>\n

Pam Elyea, Vice President of History For Hire prop house, standing amidst shelves of various props. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post<\/p>\n

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A Luke Skywalker cardboard cutout stands in a display of vintage cameras at History For Hire prop house. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of productions leave because they go anywhere else and everyone welcomes them, rolls out the red carpet and says \u2018yes, let us help you,\u2019\u201d said Kate Holguin, a social impact producer and co-founder of Stay in LA.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a major reason the number of shoot days recorded<\/a> in LA County was down about 50% in 2025, compared to 2018. It was the lowest figure ever recorded, aside from 2020.<\/p>\n

Now less than one in five<\/a> pieces of scripted content made by US production companies, is produced here in LA.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a big economic impact, considering theaverage on-location shoot adds $670,000 and 1,500 jobs a day to the local economy, according to the California Production Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles gradually lost its production market share to other cities because it got complacent and took its film industry dominance for granted.<\/p>\n

During the Golden Age of Hollywood, eight studios set up shop and by 1930, made 95% of all American films<\/a>, mostly here in LA.<\/p>\n

But LA failed to adapt its filming rules and fees with the changing times, making it harder and harder for filmmakers to film here. Now compound that with the skyrocketing cost of living.<\/p>\n

Even film workers are giving up on the entertainment capital and moving away, because it\u2019s become too difficult to live and work here.<\/p>\n

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Vintage cameras at the History For Hire prop house. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post<\/p>\n

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Pair of red sequined high heels with jeweled bows on the toes at History For Hire prop house. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve talked to some of my constituents who literally are auctioning off their Emmy Award in order to be able to survive,\u201d said LA City Councilmember Adrin Nazarian.<\/p>\n

The share of workers in the motion picture<\/a> and sound recording industry who live in California declined to just 30 percent in 2023, from 50 percent in the 90s. That figure has since rebounded to about 35 percent.<\/p>\n

More people are leaving LA than any other county in the US, according to new census data<\/a> from the last five years.<\/p>\n

Watch the video above to find out how one of America\u2019s most iconic cities is finally fighting to win back the people and jobs that made it rich, glamorous and desirable in the first place. And whether it\u2019s too little, too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles is like that guy or girl who starts fighting for you again, only when they realize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[117254,149686,1743,110029,48,149685,6105,52,51,47,12305,50,49,149683,149684],"class_list":["post-369178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-adrin-nazarian","tag-amazon-prime-series","tag-hollywood","tag-jonathan-alcorn","tag-la","tag-la-city-councilmember-adrin-nazarian","tag-la-county","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-city-hall","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-noelle-stehman","tag-the-culver-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}