The newest quarterly report on Los Angeles on-location shooting from FilmLA shows a sharp downturn in shoot days in the final quarter of 2022, raising concern that the local industry is resuming the longterm decline it was undergoing prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As shoots for films, television, commercials and other media resumed in 2021 and 2022, FilmLA reported a rebound in shoot days to pre-pandemic levels that remained consistent through all of last year. But in Q4, 8,674 shoot days were reported, a year-over-year decline of 19.5%.
In total, 36,792 shoot days were reported in 2022, 252 more days than in 2019 but down 2.4%