Los Angeles is the worldwide leader in available soundstage space, but plenty of it is going unused. FilmLA said Wednesday that its data for the first six months of 2025 shows just a 62% average occupancy rate, but the bright spot is that’s down only slightly from the 63% soundstage occupancy in 2024.
But the report (read it here) continues a downward trend since in place since the strike year of 2023, when L.A.-area soundstage occupancy was at 69%. The number for the first half of 2025 represents a 35.4% decline from the peak of 96% occupancy in 2016, when FilmLA published its inaugural “Sound Stage Production Report.” The numbers remained in the mid-90s through the Covid era before a significant 25.6% decrease from 2022 to 2023. Here is a comparison:
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