EXCLUSIVE: Lainey Wilson will be among the witnesses who will testify at a Los Angeles field hearing on the use of artificial intelligence to replicate artists’ voices and likenesses.
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FilmLA said Tuesday that on-location production in the city and county of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions was down more than 32% in 2023, and Q4 even more, as the Hollywood industry continues to recover from two industry labor strikes and a persistent post-Covid production decline in the region.
The film-permit office said Q4 2023 saw 5,220 shoot days, down 36.4% year over year, marking four consecutive quarters of double-digit declines. Overall, there were 24,873 shooting days in 2023, according to FilmLA data, compared with 36,792 shoot days in 2022, 37,709 in 2021 and 36,540 in 2019. See the report here.
The Writers Guild went out on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on May 2, with SAG-AFTRA following beginning July 14. The WGA struck for 148 days before reaching a deal September 27; SAG-AFTRA was out for 118 days and reached a deal November 9.
It was the first dual Hollywood strike in 60 years and came less than three years after on-location production in Los Angeles shuttered completely due to the Covid pandemic. FilmLA’s numbers have seen downward trends since 2016, when overall regional film production levels peaked at 39,627 shooting days.
“History offers no point of comparison to the present,” FilmLA president Paul Audley said Tuesday. “The pandemic year aside, we have to look very far back – farther back than permit records allow – to find a time when production levels stayed so low for so long.
“Everyone we are speaking to is eager to see production resume,” he said, as film FilmLA cited several TV productions eyeing production starts this month including “dozens” of projects that have qualifying for the California Film & Television Tax Credit Program. “Even as
EXCLUSIVE: Lainey Wilson will be among the witnesses who will testify at a Los Angeles field hearing on the use of artificial intelligence to replicate artists’ voices and likenesses.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer TV and film production in Los Angeles was slow to recover from the industry-wide strikes last fall, according to new data released by FilmLA. Scripted TV production ticked up slightly in the fourth quarter compared with the prior three-month period, but still remained far below historic levels. And feature film production continued to decline even after the strikes ended.
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