Los Angeles Filming Sees Small End-of-Year Rebound Amidst 16% Drop in 2025

FilmLA’s end-of-year report on the state of local film and TV production in Hollywood is as dire as expected with a 16% year-over-year decrease in shoot days in Los Angeles County. But data for the final three months of the year shows signs of a rebound in 2026.

In the film office’s latest quarterly report, 4,625 shoot days were recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025, a 5.6% increase in the prior quarter. The recently expanded California production tax credit program played a small role in this increase, as productions that received such incentives accounted for 13% of shoot days recorded this quarter.

Still, even this quarter-to-quarter increase only begins to reverse the steady decline over the past few years. In the fourth quarter of 2024, 5,680 shoot days were recorded, making this past quarter a 21% year-over-year decrease. In total, 19,694 shoot days were recorded in 2025 compared to 23,480 shoot days the prior year.

Philip Sokoloski, FilmLA’s VP of integrated communications, called the 2025 numbers “disappointing” but “not unexpected.”

“FilmLA has consistently projected that the full effect of the expanded Film and Television Tax Credit Program would take time to materialize, and although our overall numbers remain low, there are dozens of incentivized projects that have yet to begin filming,” he said. “We were pleased to see that a majority of the incentivized project Shoot Days in the Feature Film Category were for independent films, and we look forward to continuing to support productions of all sizes as they kick off early in the New Year.”

Since California legislators raised the cap of the state’s incentive program from $330 million to $700 million this past July, 118 film and television projects have been approved for the project. The majority of those projects are expected to start shooting in the first half of 2026.

More to come…

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