After a promising end until 2024, when production increased by 6.2 %, filming days during production in the Los Angeles region decreased by 22.4 % from January to March 2025, according to the Filmla report.
There were only 5,295 days of shooting across all major photography categories. Commercial ads decreased by 2.1 % to 796 days of shooting.
The TV represents 1,670 days of shooting, 30.5 % decreased, and feature films production decreased to 28.9 % with 451 shooting days.
The Los Angeles fires that destroyed us and Pacific Palisades had a small effect on photography in the area. Filmla analyzed recently decided that it was combined, these areas hosted 1405 days of photography over the past four years – or nearly 1.3 % of all regional photography. Nearly 545 unique photography sites located inside the burning areas. Based on the arrangement of the city and the province, the burning areas are still out.
“Loss of photography is in no way comparable with the cost of Eaton and Palisades fires in terms of losing life, clarifying residents and property damage. The fires seem to have sent many products that were scrambling to reschedule buds and increase hundreds of industry workers,” said Filmla VP.
The decrease in the shooting comes largely from global production cuts and the loss of continuous work in California to the competitive areas
TV production reached its peak in the Greater Los Angeles in 2021 in 18,560 annual fire exchange days. With only 7,716 days of filming days in 2024, the annual TV production decreased by 58.4 % in just three years.
In the first quarter of 2025, the production of TV drama decreased again, a decrease of 38.9 % to 440 days of shooting. From that, 77 shooting days (or 17.5 % of all TV drama activities) came from projects linked to the tax and television credit program in California. TV comedy production also decreased by 29.9 % to 110 days of shooting, and TV reality decreased by 26.4 % to 969 days of shooting.
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A half -hour TV comedy series is currently not currently qualified for California movie incentive, making it easy goals for competitors outside the country.
The unencrypted series was an essential component of the Los Angeles photography economy during the 2023 strikes. Last year, it was an unexpected shock, and made in 2024 in the second year of photography in Los Angeles Greater Los Angeles
As global production has decreased, stakeholders in the industry focus on the invitation of the Governor Gavin News to expand the tax and television credit program in California. Filmla supports expansion in the California movie incentive to $ 750 million or more annually, including proposed changes to make the program more competitive internationally through SB630 and AB1138 (Zbur / Bryan). Filmla Paul Audley in Sacramento witnessed in March about the importance of filming the country.
“The California Production Alliance estimates that the average exchange of fire adds 670,000 dollars and 1500 jobs per day for a local economy. Los Angeles and Becun Economic Province remember that there are 10,500 companies related to the state’s entertainment. Numbers like these make them clear: California cannot surrender any work more than its efficiency.”
Low cost buds such as photography, student movies, documentaries, music videos and other projects decreased by 20.2 % (to 2,378 days for photography) in the last quarter.
