Los Angeles, California, loses the production of films and television with Georgia, New York and Canada. Fox Business’ Max Gorden with more.
Los Angeles experienced a drop in local film and television production, which is worried about the city could face the same fate that Detroit made with the automotive industry several decades ago.
“While the automotive industry has left Detroit, it has really dug this city, and now there is some concern that the same thing could happen here in Los Angeles and Hollywood while cinematographic productions leave the city,” Fox Business Max Gorden’s correspondent.
In a report published last week, Filmla said that on -site production of the Los Angeles region for films, television, advertisements and other projects was just 5,300 days of shooting in the first quarter of the year, marking a drop of 22.4% compared to the same three -month period in 2024.
Los Angeles experienced a drop in local film and television production. (Istock / Istock)
This came in the middle of a “world decline in the production and intensification of competition for film projects and jobs” other places, said non -profit organization.
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Los Angeles faced massive forest fires in January but, according to Filmla, they had a “small effect on the set of the Los Angeles region” during the quarter.
The binding production in Los Angeles during the first quarter of 2025 was also lower than that observed in the first quarter of 2021, when the local industry marked more than 7,000 days of shooting, gorden, citing Filmla data.
The head of a Los Angeles location agency told Gorden that small businesses had problems.
“Many small businesses that I know unfortunately have trouble to the point where they have to call it a day in this industry, and especially for people who work here, I have hired countless people over the years, and this is becoming more and more difficult for the crew under the line of the line,” said the CEO of the real location agency of Onyshko.
Industry experts wish less regulations and more incentives from the Californian government to encourage productions to return and film in the Golden State, according to Gorden.
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“People feel like,” well, why does Hollywood need government documents? As if they were rich, they are all a bunch of rich people. “It’s like, it’s not true at all,” said Gorden Scout Dreher. “This is my backyard. I live in South Los Angeles. I have lived here for 21 years, and I worry about my next payment from the house like anyone else.”
The binding production in Los Angeles during the first quarter of 2025 was also lower than that observed in the first quarter of 2021. (Istock / Istock)
At the end of October, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed to increase the California cinema and television tax credit program to $ 750 million per year, which is an increase of $ 420 million compared to the $ 330 million currently allocated.
His office said at the time that he “would allow California to exceed other states offering tax credits, attracting more projects in the entertainment industry to Golden State”.
More recently, in February, state legislators presented legislation to reorganize the credit and television tax credit program. In addition to the increase in the overall program of $ 750 million, invoices would make more productions eligible for tax credits and increase the size of the tax credits that each project could receive, among other things, according to a press release.
The entertainment industry in Los Angeles “reports more than $ 30 billion in California and supports more than 200,000 local jobs,” according to the Los Angeles Department of Economic Development and Work on. It is also an important engine of tourism for the city.
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