{"id":2475911,"date":"2026-06-25T21:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2475911"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:35:44","slug":"hollywoods-collapse-continues-as-another-production-house-is-forced-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hollywoods-collapse-continues-as-another-production-house-is-forced-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s collapse continues as another production house is forced to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F06%2F132256998.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Another longtime Hollywood production company has shut its doors, becoming the latest casualty of California\u2019s prolonged slowdown in film and television production.<\/p>\n<p>Shadowcast Pictures, a Los Angeles-based production equipment rental company that supplied cameras, lighting and other filmmaking gear to movies, television shows and commercials for nearly two decades, has ceased operations after struggling through years of industry turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t imagine the film industry that was profitable and had a foolproof system for over 100 years fall off a cliff,\u201d owner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/shadowcast-pictures-hollywood-production-house-closes\/\">Jay Ellison told CBS Los Angeles.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Shadowcast is the latest casualty for Hollywood businesses. <span class=\"credit\">trekandphoto \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Shadowcast worked on various commercial and TV productions. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@shadowcastpictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ellison said the business never fully recovered from the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and was further battered by the 2023 Hollywood writers\u2019 and actors\u2019 strikes, the ongoing decline in production across Los Angeles and the growing use of artificial intelligence in filmmaking.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAI is basically replacing the background, the lighting, even the costume, wardrobe, in certain instances,\u201d Ellison said. \u201cIt\u2019s all being changed and manipulated by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shadowcast Pictures, which was independently owned and operated by Ellison, is the latest production support business to disappear as work continues to migrate out of California. The company specialized in renting production equipment to film, television and commercial shoots rather than producing movies itself.<\/p>\n<p>Its closure adds to a growing list of entertainment businesses that have folded in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>More than 80 film and television production service companies in Los Angeles have closed since 2022, CBS Los Angeles reported. Among them was Faux Prop House, a longtime prop rental company that shut down in 2025 after citing the steep decline in local production.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment attorney Jonathan Handel warned that the industry\u2019s struggles extend well beyond Hollywood studios, affecting thousands of businesses that depend on film and television work throughout Southern California.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jay Ellison blamed AI for eliminating the need for much of his company\u2019s resources. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@jayefilm<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@shadowcastpictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is a problem not just for the entertainment industry,\u201d Handel told CBS Los Angeles. \u201cThis is a problem for the economy of Los Angeles as a whole. It\u2019s one that needs to be addressed very aggressively by the next mayoral administration and by the next governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California lawmakers have expanded the state\u2019s Film and Television Tax Credit Program in an effort to lure productions back from competing states and overseas, but many industry leaders say the incentives have yet to reverse the exodus. <\/p>\n<p>States including Georgia, New Mexico and New York, along with countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom, continue to attract major productions with competitive tax incentives and established production infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult,\u201d Handel said. \u201cOnce business has left and is left for a duration, those other locations build up a reservoir of physical and human capital, of trained crew members. It becomes harder to take the business back than it would have been to prevent it from leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal lawmakers are also weighing proposals for a nationwide production tax incentive that could be combined with existing state credits in an effort to encourage more film and television projects to remain in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another longtime Hollywood production company has shut its doors, becoming the latest casualty of California\u2019s prolonged slowdown in film and television production. Shadowcast Pictures, a Los Angeles-based production equipment rental company that supplied cameras, lighting and other filmmaking gear to movies, television shows and commercials for nearly two decades, has ceased operations after struggling through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2475912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,22860,428465],"class_list":["post-2475911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-tv-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Hollywoods-collapse-continues-as-another-production-house-is-forced-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475913,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475911\/revisions\/2475913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}