Los Angeles is facing an economic crisis as film and TV production collapses, with shoot days falling by half from their 2016 peak. As tax incentives lure projects overseas, AI threatens to wipe out "below-the-line" jobs, leaving writers and crew struggling to survive.
The tape Odd Lots · Sep 25
“Shoot days in LA, uh, hit a high in 2016, about 40,000 shoot days. And from there it sort of leveled out to around 37,000 by 2019. Okay. Pandemic hits the shoot days collapse, obviously. There's a backlog. And then in 2021, they sort of skyrocket again. 2022, we're back to 2019 numbers, around 37,000. The next year, 2023, the strikes hit. Shoot days fall again to 25,000. The next year, people are sort of hoping for a recovery. They end up at 23,000. Shoot days fall again. The mantra I think a lot of people heard in the city was survive till 25. That was like a phrase in the entertainment industry here. And instead, shoot days fell again to under 20,000. So that is half of what it was in 2016. Maybe. Maybe.”
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