Canadian screen production has experienced a significant decline, falling 18.5% to pre-pandemic levels. Hollywood strikes and a decrease in Canadian commissions are cited as major contributing factors.
Screen production across Canada fell 18.5 percent to pre-pandemic levels, the Canadian Media Producers Association says, in large part due to Hollywood-strike slowdowns and fewer Canadian commissions. The $9.58-billion in shows and movies being filmed between April, 2023, and March, 2024, was in line with the pre-pandemic 2019-20 fiscal year, but much lower than the $11.75-million worth of Canadian production in 2022-23.
on the Canadian screen industry, released Thursday, that English-language Canadian commissioning slowed down more than the French side of the industry. It also found that smaller production companies as well as children’s TV and animation producers were disproportionately hit by the trend.a similar downturn, including a 37-per-cent drop in projects being filmed in the first half of 2024 versus the first half of 2022 – the most recent comparable period not affected by the Hollywood strikes.As has been the case for nearly a decade in Canada, foreign productions accounted for the biggest share of production volume last year, at $4.73-billion, the Profile report said. Canadian television accounted for $3.25-billion; in-house broadcaster productions were at $1.16-billion; and Canadian theatrical features were at $440-million. Ontario had the most production activity, the CMPA said, at $3.23-billion, followed by Quebec at $2.9-billion and B.C. at $2.37-billion.of the Online Streaming Act, whose implementation is under review by the Canadian Radio-television Communications Commission, would result in new investments in Canadian content and boost the screen industr
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