The fires at the start of 2025 were devastating for Los Angeles in general and its dominant industry, film and TV. With houses and businesses burnt down, work was scarce as people put their lives back together. This was a bummer for many reasons, one of them being the fact that at the end of 2024, production in LA rose around 6%, which was a promising sign for 2025. But in the world, post-fires, numbers are down. FilmLA's latest report reveals a significant drop in on-location filming within the Greater Los Angeles area for the first quarter of 2025. Between January and March, total shoot days decreased by 22.4%, adding up to only 5,295 days across all major categories. Television production saw the sharpest decline at 30.5% (1,670 days), while feature film shoots fell by 28.9% (451 days).Commercials experienced a smaller dip of 2.1% (796 days). The report also noted that recent fires in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades had a minimal effect on overall filming, historically representing only about 1.3% of regional shoot days, though approximately 545 locations within the burn zones remain inaccessible for filming.TV drama production continued its downward trend in this first quarter as well, falling 38.9% to 440 shoot days. Within this category, 77 shoot days (17.5%) were attributed to projects receiving California's Film & Television Tax Credit. TV comedy shoots also decreased, dropping 29.9% to 110 days, while TV reality production fell 26.4% to 969 shoot days.Philip Sokoloski, FilmLA's VP of Integrated Communications said...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - 4 days ago