It was one other powerful 12 months for movie and tv manufacturing in Los Angeles as the whole shoot days for 2025 dropped 16.1% in comparison with the earlier 12 months, in accordance with a brand new report.
Final 12 months’s 19,694 shoot days was the bottom whole since 2020, in accordance with the nonprofit FilmLA, which tracks filming within the better L.A. space. In 2024, that whole was 23,480 shoot days.
Although California lawmakers bolstered the state’s movie and TV manufacturing incentive program final 12 months, it’s going to probably take a while for these awarded tasks to indicate up in filming information, stated Philip Sokoloski, FilmLA vice chairman of built-in communications.
“Whereas the year-end numbers are disappointing, they don’t seem to be surprising,” he stated in an announcement. “Though our total numbers stay low, there are dozens of incentivized tasks which have but to start filming.”
To this point, greater than 100 movie and TV tasks are amongst these awarded manufacturing incentives for filming in California beneath the revamped program. Within the fourth quarter of 2025, incentivized tasks beneath the earlier program made up about 13% of all shoot days within the L.A. space.
For the fourth quarter, on-location manufacturing totaled 4,625 shoot days, down 21.1% in comparison with the identical time interval in 2024.
The steepest filming declines that quarter had been in commercials, which noticed a decline of 23.2% in comparison with 2024, adopted by tv, which dropped 21.9%. Characteristic movie shoot days had been down 19.7% from the fourth quarter in 2024, and FilmLA’s “different” class, which incorporates pupil movies, documentaries and music movies, was down 20.4%.
Inside the TV class, filming for pilots noticed a 62.5% decline that quarter in comparison with 2024, whereas dramas fell 36.4%. Actuality TV shoot days had been down 9.8% and TV comedy filming was down 6% for the fourth quarter.
