Despite California’s $330 million annual film incentives program, on-location feature film shooting days in Los Angeles are continuing their precipitous slide this year, plummeting 24.7% in the third quarter compared to the same frame last year. And that’s on top of a 16.7% drop in the second quarter and a 13% decline in Q1. On-location feature film production “has generally struggled in 2019,” according toOverall, on-location shooting days on all types of productions fell by 5.
On-location television production also was down 9.9% during the third quarter compared with last year, though more than four out of every 10 TV drama shoot days came from incentivized series. Those incentivized projects include TV comedies were up a whopping 45.6% in the third quarter, but TV dramas were down 28.6%. TV reality shows were down 6.7% in the quarter, and TV pilots were off by 19.2%. Web-based shows were down 8.7% in the quarter, and TV commercials were off by 5%.
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