Doomsday warning for Hollywood as LA shoot days plummet in latest figures

While Hollywood films seem to be rebounding at the box office — with recent projections hinting that this could be the first domestic $10 billion year since 2019 — production in Los Angeles is still sagging.FilmLA released its new second quarter report on Thursday, revealing there was a 13% drop in film and TV production shoot days from the same time period.The company logged 4,711 shoot days for the second quarter of this year (April-June), a 12.7% drop from Q2 in 2025 (5,394 shoot days).The tally also fell 8% short of this year’s first quarter, where there were 5,121 shoot days logged, with a whopping 35.9% drop from the five-year average.There have been 170 film and television projects that were awarded production tax credits through the California Film & TV Tax Credit Program, which includes 41 new projects announced earlier this month.While the downward production trend is troubling, there were bright spots in the report, with strong gains coming in several metrics from television productions.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story Overall television production (1,607 shoot days in Q2) was down 27.7% from Q2 2025 (2,224 shoot days), but the TV drama segment was down just 6.4% from last year.However, there was a 34.4% jump in TV shoot days from Q2 (1,607) over Q1 (1,196), with several prominent small screen productions filming in the area.Several shows such as Fox’s high-profile reboot of “Baywatch,” and Hulu’s “Prison Break” reboot were filmed in LA, along with returning shows such as “Ballard” (Amazon), “Bosch: Start if Watch” (MGM+), and “The Night Agent” (Netflix).Plus, TV drama shoot days (732) increased 55% from this year’s first quarter (472), though there were sharp declines elsewhere.There were 676 realit...