If you work in entertainment, you probably heard some variation of this last year: “Survive ’til ’25.”
Things have been bleak. In a recent article from The Wall Street Journal, the reporting goes as far as to call Los Angeles’ production prospects “a disaster movie.”
The numbers are stark.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 100,000 people were employed in Los Angeles County’s motion picture industry at the end of 2024. Two years earlier, that figure stood at 142,000.
That’s a loss of 42,000 jobs—nearly a third of the workforce—in just 24 months.
The decline shows no signs of stopping.
