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.
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FilmLA, the official film office for the city and county, reported that on-location production was down 22% in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year.
Television production has been especially hard-hit. The region reached a peak of 18,560 annual shoot days in 2021. By 2024, that number had plummeted to just 7,716. It's a 58.4% decline in three years.
Paul Audley, president of FilmLA, told NBC Los Angeles that 2024 was "the worst year on record, excluding COVID."
The first quarter of 2025 looks even worse. Every major category of production, from television dramas to commercials, logged fewer shoot days compared to the year before.
What's driving this collapse? Multiple factors have made this unemployment stew.
We have not yet recovered from the WGA and SAG strikes. The streaming bubble has burst, with major companies pulling back on content spending after years of explosive growth. The fires uprooted many on the west side of the city, and rebuilding is slow, so some have opted to leave town.
I've got a theory: Maybe it has something to do with Hollywood basically being Antifa Theater Kids now.
Hollywood's big prestige drama for the fall is One Battle After Another which is expliclty pro-left-wing terrorism and anti-ICE. It never uses the word "Antifa" or "ICE," but its leftwing terrorist heroes are plainly Antifa, and the even Reichwing government agency they're blowing up and shooting at is plainly ICE.
Sean Penn is part of this, you won't be surprised to hear. He plays, get this, an evil right-wing law enforcement official. Despite his insane levels of racism, apparently he's got a thing for darker-skinned minority women. (Oooh, maybe that's why he's so racist! Now that's some outstanding character psychology.)
He used to have sex with a Virtuous Terrorist Minority Woman and had a Secret Racist Love-Child with her and, per Ethan Van Sciver, wants to erase all evidence of that. Van Sciver is being coy because he doesn't want to spoil everything but I think it's pretty clear he means that this evil Reichwing LEO wants to kill his former lover and his own child so that he can run for office in Texas or something.
It's got real Four Quadrant Appeal!
And then they claim that they have no responsibility for the endless Antifa/Trantifa violence:
Have these geniuses who can't stop propagandizing in favor of political violence ever considered that they are also propagandizing political violence to the pissed-off and heavily-armed (and veteran- and LEO-stuffed) right-wing?
And that we are thisclose to agreeing that yes, political violence is justified?
Is that what you want? Think long and hard before answering.
Fraudulent Documents Merchant and Hard-Left Activist Dan Rather has commented on CBS's hiring of Bari Weiss, claiming that her hiring, and not the attempt to rig the 2004 election with obviously fake "documents," is a "dark day."
"The American people will pay the price for this move, as will the journalists of CBS News who can no longer credibly serve as watchdogs because the ones they are meant to hold to account are signing their paychecks and hobnobbing with the president," the veteran journalist wrote.
At one point, he warned, "It is a dark day in the halls of CBS News."
Last night I linked Critical Drinker's review of Good Boy, an independent movie about supernatural horror in which the hero is the family dog, and a very good boy indeed.
Our resident Moron Dog Movie Reviewer naturalflake saw it, and has been recommending it since last week:
I've been flogging "Good Boy" all this week ever since we saw it on the weekend.
I don't want to over sell it, but it is a very good movie
Honestly, it does everything you'd want if you think about its premise.
And yes, Indy is a very good boy.
Definitely check it out if it's playing in your town.
Posted by: naturalfake