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Hollywood’s Double Strikes Hit Film, TV Production in Canada Hard
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scrn loglineHollywood's 2023 strikes devastated Canada's film and TV production, sending spending plunging by 26% and returning the industry to pre-pandemic levels.beat sheet- The number of foreign TV series shot in Canada last year fell from 345 to 220, generating $2.99 billion in production spending, as key streamers like Netflix and Disney+ shuttered local sets during the strikes.
- While foreign feature film production in Canada only fell 14.7%, the total volume of production generated by those films dropped just 4.9% due to accounting methods that record the value from the first day of principal photography, not when they were paused.
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Hollywood’s Double Strikes Hit Film, TV Production in Canada Hard
The Hollywood ReporterStory by Etan Vlessing
scrn logline
Hollywood's 2023 strikes devastated Canada's film and TV production, sending spending plunging by 26% and returning the industry to pre-pandemic levels.
beat sheet
- The number of foreign TV series shot in Canada last year fell from 345 to 220, generating $2.99 billion in production spending, as key streamers like Netflix and Disney+ shuttered local sets during the strikes.
- While foreign feature film production in Canada only fell 14.7%, the total volume of production generated by those films dropped just 4.9% due to accounting methods that record the value from the first day of principal photography, not when they were paused.
call sheet
Canadian Media Producers Association, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, The Last of Us, Fargo, Reacher