Well, they had a good run.
From CBS News, May 31:
Los Angeles — For years, Phil Mangano made a good living as a film and television editor in Los Angeles.
"It was just job after job after job," Mangano told CBS News. "…Very consistent work."
But after Hollywood writers and actors went on monthslong strikes in 2023, production ground to a halt.
California lost roughly 40,000 film and tv jobs that year alone, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"When that finally settled, we were like, OK, great, things will come back," Mangano said. "And there has been no significant increase in job opportunities."
Since its peak in 2021, television production in the greater Los Angeles area has decreased by 58%, according to the nonprofit group FilmLA, which handles film permitting for the city and county of Los Angeles. The number of shoot days for television fell from 18,560 in 2021 to 7,716 in 2024.
And in the first quarter of 2025, on-location production in L.A. declined by 22.4% from the same period last year, per numbers from FilmLA.
"Right now, it's a triage situation. The patient is dying and you need to bring it back to life," Matthew Belloni, who covers show business for Puck News and hosts the popular podcast "The Town," told CBS News....
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