Production Company Directory · State of the industry
Where film production is growing, and where it is not
497 production cities across 80 countries, ranked from fastest growing to fastest slowing and scored against up to seven signals: filming permits, film employment, payroll, company formation, and output.
Filming permits through 2025Film employment and payroll through 2023Release credits through 2025
61 cities can be ranked. The rest carry no trend reading and sit at the bottom: 419 have no permit or employment figure from the last year or two, and 17 have one but list too few companies here for a trend to describe the city rather than our coverage of it.
By country
Output over twelve complete years, summed across each country’s cities. This is release credits, not permits, so it is worded as output rather than as health: only the United States and Puerto Rico publish the filming-permit and film-employment data a real trend reading needs.
- 15,519
- titles, 5yr
- 242
- cities
- 13,832
- companies
77 cities with permit or employment data
- 3,995
- titles, 5yr
- 42
- cities
- 2,572
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 3,468
- titles, 5yr
- 11
- cities
- 1,379
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 2,452
- titles, 5yr
- 12
- cities
- 608
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 1,946
- titles, 5yr
- 18
- cities
- 1,075
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 1,725
- titles, 5yr
- 20
- cities
- 1,201
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 1,549
- titles, 5yr
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- cities
- 614
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 1,339
- titles, 5yr
- 10
- cities
- 624
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 918
- titles, 5yr
- 9
- cities
- 459
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 881
- titles, 5yr
- 5
- cities
- 254
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 782
- titles, 5yr
- 3
- cities
- 246
- companies
no permit or employment data published
- 693
- titles, 5yr
- 11
- cities
- 440
- companies
no permit or employment data published
Cities, fastest growing to fastest slowing
All 61 cities with a current measure. Search, re-sort, or pick up to three to compare side by side. Each line is twelve complete years of output for that city, scaled to its own peak, so the shape is the story rather than the height.
Los Angeles, CA. growing slowly. 4,690 titles in the last five years.
All 61 cities
Growing
44 citiesPermits, employment or payroll rising faster than they are falling.
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3 measures · employment · through 2017
Holding steady
7 citiesMeasures pointing both ways, or none moving far enough to call.
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3 measures · employment · through 2023
Slowing
10 citiesMore measures falling than rising.
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No trend reading
436 cities with real output but nothing we can honestly draw a trend from. Most are outside the US, where filming permits and film-employment series are not published as open data. Showing the 100 busiest; the rest are in the directory.
Permits from city and state open data portals, employment and payroll from the Bureau of Labor Statistics QCEW series for motion picture and video industries, output from company credits. Each city page lists the exact source and year behind every number.