Doomsday warning for Hollywood as LA shoot days…
While Hollywood movies appear to be rebounding at the box workplace — with current projections hinting that this might be the first home $10 billion 12 months since 2019 — manufacturing in Los Angeles is still 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 same time period.
The company logged 4,711 shoot days for the second quarter of this 12 months (April-June), a 12.7% drop from Q2 in 2025 (5,394 shoot days).
While Hollywood movies appear to be rebounding at the box workplace, manufacturing in Los Angeles is still sagging. Tim Regas / SplashNews.com
The tally also fell 8% short of this 12 months’s first quarter, where 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 had been awarded manufacturing tax credit through the California Film & TV Tax Credit Program, which incorporates 41 new tasks announced earlier this month.
While the downward manufacturing development is troubling, there have been vibrant spots in the report, with strong positive factors coming in a number of metrics from tv productions.
Overall tv manufacturing (1,607 shoot days in Q2) was down 27.7% from Q2 2025 (2,224 shoot days), but the TV drama section was down just 6.4% from last 12 months.
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 in the world.
Several reveals such as Fox’s high-profile reboot of “Baywatch,” and Hulu’s “Prison Break” reboot had been filmed in LA, along with returning reveals 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 12 months’s first quarter (472), though there have been sharp declines elsewhere.
There had been 676 actuality tv shoot days in Q2 2026, a 39.9% drop from the same time period last 12 months (1,124).
Still, actuality manufacturing picked up 32% from the first quarter of this 12 months, where 476 shoot days had been logged by FilmLA, with reveals such as “America’s Got Talent,” “American Idol,” “Love Thy Nader” and “The Valley Persian Style” filmed in the better LA space.
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TV comedies logged just 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 12 months, down to 543 shoot days in Q2 2026 from 692 days from the same time last 12 months, and down 32% from last quarter this 12 months (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 still 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 said 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, while also preventing to create the first-ever federal movie incentive. We’ll keep cutting pink tape and slashing allow charges at the local degree, because this industry is core to the historical past, tradition, and financial
energy of Los Angeles,” she concluded.
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