Partly because of the twin strikes and partly because of larger shifts in the industry, film and TV production in Greater LA is down nearly 20% in 2023, a new report from FilmLA finds.
The film industry is DONE with Los Angeles (film productions are leaving Hollywood)
The organization, which represents the production interests of the city and county of L.A., released an update to its three-year analysis of U.S.-produced, first-run, English-language scripted projects. (Read it HERE .) It found that production fell 19.7% last year to just 183 projects. The total was 45 fewer projects than Greater Los Angeles had secured the year before, and a fraction of the 990 total projects secured by all jurisdictions in 2023. The U.K., Georgia, and Ontario, Canada were cited by FilmLA as particular threats to the production sector.
Greater Los Angeles went from nearly 23% of eligible projects in 2021 to 22% in 2022 and just 18% in 2023.
As Deadline has documented, the fallout from the strikes has been compounded by widespread cost-cutting at major media companies and a retreat in some areas by major streamers.
