For the second year in a row, California is the top state in the nation for film production. But the share of movies being shot in the Golden State fell from 21 percent in 2014 to 17 percent last year, a new study found.
Nineteen out of 109 movies released by major U.S. film companies in 2015 were produced primarily in California, according to FilmL.A., the film office for the greater Los Angeles region.
Among the 19 films were “Straight Outta Compton,” “Entourage” and “The Wedding Ringer.”
But California faced competition from the United Kingdom with 15 projects. Georgia and Louisiana were next with 12 projects each and Canada followed with 11.
Georgia and Louisiana, like the U.K. offer generous government production incentive programs that California just began to catch up with in mid-2015.
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