In the middle of an ongoing decline in film production In the US, a survey by film leaders conducted by Prodro revealed that the best US production states such as California, Georgia and New York did not rank among the 5 most preferred places for studios to shoot.
Prodro, a film production analysis company, released a new report Thursday with its view of physical production for 2025. Among more than 150 studies, the five best production hubs were named most preferred to postpone: Toronto, the United Kingdom, Vancouver, Central Europe and Australia. California came in sixth, followed by Georgia and New Jersey.
More than 500 crew members from all over the world were also asked about their optimism for the industry in the coming year. Overall, the feeling was pessimistic with a net negative rating of -23%, with the only production hub with 50% of crew members who expressed optimism as Australia. But it exceeds long California, where only about 10% of respondents said they were optimistic.
The Outlook report in 2025 also divided the figures on the failed recovery of the global film/television industry in 2024 after the previous year’s strikes, as studios took your “peak TV” eventually with cuts of production spending. While the total number of TV series and feature films productions increased by 18% from the strike-developed year 2023, it remained 11% from 2022.
Engaged production expenses in these categories reflected a similar trend. Studios spent $ 42 billion in TV series and film production in 2024, an increase of 63% from 2023 but about 12% down from the $ 47.9 billion spent in 2022.
Prodro also took a bill of production expenses in larger regions on projects with budgets of at least $ 40 million. The United Kingdom saw a small uptake of about 1% from 2022 to $ 5.9 billion, while Canada and Australia also saw impact of 2.8% and 14% to $ 5.4 billion and $ 2 billion.
The United States still remains the best country of production with $ 14.5 billion in large production expenses across the country in 2024; But it is a reduction of 26% from just two years before.
2025 is expected to be a critical year for the future of California’s production industry, such as Gov. Gavin Newsom has threw his support Behind an extension of the state’s tax credit program and an increase in its ceiling from $ 330 million to $ 750 million.
But in the wake of the Los Angeles fire fires, which are expected to worsen high living expenses with escalating rents, industry workers in the county have launched “Stay in La” The campaign, which among other things asks calls for California’s legislators to go even further than Newsom’s proposal and to completely remove the tax credit lock over the next three years.
