{"id":70560,"date":"2025-11-26T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70560\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:08:16","slug":"los-angeles-remains-top-filming-site-as-global-production-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70560\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Remains Top Filming Site as Global Production Shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLos Angeles maintained its place as the global hub for film and TV production last year, even as the overall marketplace shrank, according to a report issued Tuesday by FilmLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOut of 857 films and scripted TV series released in 2024, 18.3% were shot in Los Angeles \u2014 nearly unchanged from the 18.5% share in 2023. Its closest competitor is Georgia, where 9.8% of productions released in 2024 were shot.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe U.K. is growing its share of the overall market, thanks to a surge in streaming and cable TV series shot there. Its marketshare grew from 6.6% to 8.8%.<\/p>\n

\n\tFilmLA handles location permits around the L.A. region, and is the key source of data for production volume in Los Angeles. For this report, the agency sought to measure L.A.\u2019s overall marketshare by gathering location data from IMDbPro. FilmLA has been issuing its Scripted Content Study since 2022, when it found that L.A. held 21.9% of overall marketshare.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe study<\/a> aims to capture all English-language film and scripted TV productions released by U.S.-based companies. The study does not factor in production budgets or the duration of film shoots, instead simply counting each production.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe total number of such productions declined from 1,040 in 2022, to 990 in 2023, and to 857 in 2024. Some of that decline is attributable to the actors and writers strikes of 2023, which disrupted production for about half the year. But the industry has also continued to pull back on production since then, as companies rein in their streaming ambitions.<\/p>\n

\n\tCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom led an effort to expand the state\u2019s tax incentive for production from $330 million to $750 million this past summer, which should start to show an effect next year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cUltimately, this study reveals little that California\u2019s creative community does not already understand on a personal level,\u201d said Philip Sokoloski, a spokesperson for the agency, in a release. \u201cThere are far fewer film projects being made in Los Angeles than there were in the recent past. Expanded options for attracting and retaining film jobs \u2013 as enacted this past July \u2014 are not only good for California\u2019s economy, they are a critical form of protection for working families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe report shows significant declines in British Columbia and New York, and slight increases in Ontario and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\n\tLos Angeles saw a sharp drop in cable TV series released in 2024 \u2014 from 26 to 11 \u2014 while it saw an increase in theatrical films, from 21 to 25. Streaming series also dropped significantly, from 49 to 37, but streaming movies rebounded, from 17 to 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles maintained its place as the global hub for film and TV production last year, even as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5934,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-70560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-filmla","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70560","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=70560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}