Despite recent layoffs, Netflix said it is doubling down on Los Angeles, filming at least 70 productions in the area this year as the streamer spends roughly $18 billion on content globally.
Despite recent layoffs, Netflix said it is doubling down on Los Angeles, filming at least 70 productions in the area this year as the streamer spends roughly $18 billion on content globally.
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FilmLA says permit requests dropped 25 percent last month.
Production in Los Angeles hit new pandemic-era lows last month.
FilmLA released its latest report examining filming in the greater Los Angeles area in the month of December, revealing that film permit requests dropped a steep 25 percent compared to the prior month. Filming activity had already dropped nearly 8 percent in November but the organization says that permit requests declined from 813 that month to 613 in December. As another comparison, there were 965 permits in Dec. of last year.
The production decline started early in the month and deepened throughout it, according to the report. The week before Christmas, FilmLA issued 143 permits, then 58 the week of the holiday (Dec. 14 to Dec. 20), and 50 the week of New Year’s (Dec. 28 to Jan. 3). With just 21 working days in December, the organization doled out an average of just 29 film permits per day the lowest daily output it has recorded since last August.