Doomsday warning for Hollywood as LA shoot days – Business News
While Hollywood movies appear to be rebounding on the box workplace — with current projections hinting that this could possibly be the primary home $10 billion yr since 2019 — manufacturing in Los Angeles remains to be sagging.
FilmLA launched its new second quarter report on Thursday, revealing there was a 13% drop in movie and TV manufacturing shoot days from the identical time period.
The company logged 4,711 shoot days for the second quarter of this yr (April-June), a 12.7% drop from Q2 in 2025 (5,394 shoot days).
While Hollywood movies appear to be rebounding on the box workplace, manufacturing in Los Angeles remains to be sagging. Tim Regas / SplashNews.com
The tally additionally fell 8% short of this yr’s first quarter, the place there have been 5,121 shoot days logged, with a whopping 35.9% drop from the five-year average.
There have been 170 movie and tv tasks that have been awarded manufacturing tax credit by means of the California Film & TV Tax Credit Program, which incorporates 41 new tasks introduced earlier this month.
While the downward manufacturing trend is troubling, there have been vivid spots within the report, with sturdy beneficial properties coming in a number of metrics from tv productions.
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Overall tv manufacturing (1,607 shoot days in Q2) was down 27.7% from Q2 2025 (2,224 shoot days), however the TV drama phase was down simply 6.4% from final yr.
However, there was a 34.4% bounce in TV shoot days from Q2 (1,607) over Q1 (1,196), with a number of outstanding small screen productions filming within the space.
Several exhibits such as Fox’s high-profile reboot of “Baywatch,” and Hulu’s “Prison Break” reboot have been filmed in LA, together with returning exhibits such as “Ballard” (Amazon), “Bosch: Start if Watch” (MGM+), and “The Night Agent” (Netflix).
Stranger Things star David Harbour seen on the set of the indie movie Little One in Los Angeles back in June. CPR/D.SAnchez / BACKGRID
Plus, TV drama shoot days (732) elevated 55% from this yr’s first quarter (472), although there have been sharp declines elsewhere.
There have been 676 actuality tv shoot days in Q2 2026, a 39.9% drop from the identical time period final yr (1,124).
Still, actuality manufacturing picked up 32% from the primary quarter of this yr, the place 476 shoot days have been logged by FilmLA, with exhibits such as “America’s Got Talent,” “American Idol,” “Love Thy Nader” and “The Valley Persian Style” filmed within the larger LA space.
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TV comedies logged simply 57 shoot days, a 43% drop from 2025 (100 shoot days) and a short 9% drop from 2026 Q1 (110 days), with “Shrinking,” “The Studio” and “The Paper” filming in LA.
Feature movie manufacturing was down as effectively, with the 443 shoot days marking a 19.9% drop from Q2 2025 (553), with a 36% drop from Q1 2026 (687 shoot days), plus a 40.2% drop from the five-year average.
Commercial manufacturing dropped 21.5% year-over yr, down to 543 shoot days in Q2 2026 from 692 days from the identical time final yr, and down 32% from final quarter this yr (794 shoot days).
Penelope Cruz noticed on the set of the upcoming movie Paris Paramount. BACKGRID
Despite the decreases in a number of metrics, LA mayor Karen Bass nonetheless touted the progress FilmLA has made during this time.
“While there is still much work to do, FilmLA’s quarterly report is proof that incentives are working: local incentivized productions are on the rise, creating good-paying union jobs and realizing economic opportunity for Angelenos,” Bass mentioned in a assertion.
“I created the state’s first-ever film and tv tax credit, fought to expand it to $750 million, and I’m doubling down by fighting for an un-capped tax credit that includes competition reality television and “above-the-line” spend, whereas additionally combating to create the first-ever federal movie incentive. We’ll keep chopping purple tape and slashing allow charges on the native stage, as a result of this industry is core to the historical past, tradition, and financial
energy of Los Angeles,” she concluded.
