Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge Oct 18, 2025
Film and TV production in the Los Angeles area has hit an all-time low, sinking to levels worse than the SAG union strike of 2023. The city has introduces new tax incentives to generate enthusiasm but many in Tinseltown are questioning if the industry will ever recover.
FilmLA, the city and county’s film permitting office, said Tuesday that on-location production in the greater Los Angeles area declined 13.2% from July through September 2025 compared to the same period last year. Once again, this continues a multi-year trend in declining local production.
LA motion picture employment dropped from 142,000 in 2022 to 100,000 by end-2024 – a 30% cut (42,000 jobs gone). Below-the-line crew were hit hardest; 63% earned less in 2024, and 41% are considering an exit. High taxes in LA and California have forced some productions to leave the area, but total US film and TV productions are still in decline no matter where you go in the country. There has been a 28% drop in theatrical releases since 2019 and a 25% drop in scripted TV projects.
The vast majority of film and TV media are shot in the greater Los Angeles area due to proximity to studios, editing facilities, effects houses and actor pools. A drop in Hollywood and LA production indicates are decline in the film industry as a whole. The plunge in activity coincides with the overall drop in box office receipts since 2019.
Profits never recovered after the pandemic shutdowns and this has been used for years by the progressive media as the excuse for Hollywood’s failures. However, by 2023 US markets were wide open along with most foreign markets and the covid scapegoat no longer exists. Adjusted for inflation, theatrical numbers were already in decline after 2015.
Another factor that many analysts don’t take into account is Democrat mismanagement on cities and states, leading to higher costs, higher crime and an underlying malaise that suffocates business. This has been taking place for many years; well before covid.
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From 2015 to 2019 audience numbers had already dropped around 10%. Today, audience numbers are at least 30% below 2015 levels. What no one in the business wants to address is the woke takeover and its negative effects on media. The industry’s woke shift has clearly been affecting receipts.
Production companies cite the rise of inflation and higher ticket costs as a ticket killer. This makes more sense than the covid claims, but it does not explain why movies without woke messaging continue to greatly outperform movies that push woke messaging. The solution to Hollywood’s dilemma seems clear: Stop making woke garbage, hire decent writers, and the cash will roll in.
Jones today was going on about why he doesn’t mention the jews (except when he’s telling you why he doesn’t mention them), saying that there’s a whole lot of other stuff going on, and he’s right, there is.
The thing is, if you dont mention who’s doing it and mention it every single time, then you’re never going to fix it. Saying there are no blacks at the BLM protests is correct, there aren’t, but then tell everyone who paid for all of those signs and costumes, who paid for the percentage of them who are paid protesters and who paid for the media that made all those other white people go out there and wave the signs. The ones you need to remove are the money behind it, and guess who they are every single time…
we dont need any new films anymore !
there are since the 40 so many films
since colour + audio . we can see all
old films in digitized quality . adicional
all the other international productions .
and hollywoods zombi + armagedon trash
productions we realy dont need .
LOL..
Maybe the muggles have actually finally realized that hollyweird’s output is just awful, that’s it’s always been awful and it always will be..there was no golden age..or silver age or even a shitty bronze age, there was the occasional shitflick that was vaguely entertaining and that’s simply because most peoples lives were so fucking terrible an hour in the warmth was worth 10 cents..
it’s always been irritating shite…fucking terrible..woke’s just an excuse..it’s always been propaganda always..if you want to waste another hour or two of your meaningless existence you could pick any antique dross from the thankfully dead and buried past of joo toob and if you were honest you would piss yourself at the stark awfulness of it all…
they used to pull the same con with the BBc being a serious broadcaster with standards, an institution…which of course it is, a fucking mental institution , a glee club for poofters and pedo’s..which quite often is the same thing.. at the BBc they have a third and fourth ‘sex’ and 300 genders..most of them under 10 and kept in the prop departments..
…just like hollyweird.. unsurprisingly..
While a lot of people will have seen this brief video mock-up from Trump a lot of people won’t have. Here he is flying a jet while wearing a crown and he flies over the No Kings protestors and instead of bombs he drops shit on them. Some President!
If anyone’s interested in the background music on the second part of the video it’s ‘In The Hall of The Mountain King’ by Edvard Grieg from Peer Gynt. It’s an amazing 4min piece of music, a fugue I think.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cO_Cx1tD5jo
This industry is not dead. Hollyw’ continues to make bad movies with the cia and military everyday, all day and all night, year round. And commercials. Inbetween their fakery they make easy to see and detect fake events.
It doesn’t mean anything because HEBREWOOD is funded by the Federal Reserve which has an infinite supply of money to disburse to all their Commie companies & organization like HEBREWOOD, Antifa, BLM, ACLU, ADL etc…
As a child, I wondered why all the Hollywood productions of well known stories took such liberties with the original plots.
Then, Growing up, I noticed that the Jews had a ‘Chief Feature:’ they took liberties with the truth, besides trying to wrangle a virtual b.j. from their goy host.
We really don’t need these lying, swindling, murdering grifters. It’s time to send them concentration camping!
hat has Baba Vanga predicted for 2026?
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Few names in the world of prophecy have achieved the cult status of Baba Vanga. Somehow, even years after her death, the predictions of the blind Bulgarian mystic continue to ripple through the internet.
So far, she has been credited with predicting huge world events, including the Chernobyl disaster and the israel 9/11 attacks., and the jews murder of the kenedies Now, as 2026 approaches, she has predicted alien contact, an AI revolution, and a world completely on the edge. with the collapse of holywood
No it won’t.
Hollywood’s been going down the toilet for the last 3 generations. It no longer makes much more than TV shows, and even there, Canada makes more.
Turn off the light for the whole state of California. It went from gold to lead in a century… the magic’s gone, fellas!
As long as the mass mind nurtures its ADHD towards the Christ & His mission to relate man to God through His atonement & mediation, ‘wholesome’ movies are pointless.
Well, okay but Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford and David Lean stand as truly great artists and good men. The latter consideration would exclude the likes of the master film-makers, Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski. Dirty fuckers. Mise-en-scene in hell.
NO MORE WHITE POLICEMEN
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/uk-police-chief-accused-of-anti-white-discrimination/
For a few years I thought I could find a good Hollywood film or two by going back to the old ones, but careful watching showed me that I was looking at Communist propaganda every single time. When McCarthy tried to get the Communists out of Hollywood, he was scooping the Ocean with a bucket
Can’t wait until this sick hollywood is caput.
I always thought Hollywood was not just a money laundry……but is an initial injection point for more fiat currency for Federal Reserve.
Profits are “nice” but moreseo one of many Deep State Weapons.
Like profitability matters to the ideologues…