ProdPro Data Tracks New Jersey’s Rise to a $1.2 Billion Production Market

The Los Angeles Times examines New Jersey's Hollywood revival, citing ProdPro data showing the state's production spending reached $1.2 billion in 2025, fourth in the U.S. behind California, New York and Georgia.

The film industry was born in New Jersey, where Thomas Edison's team built one of the first soundstages in the late 1880s. More than a century later, production is booming there again. The Los Angeles Times, in its Hollywood in Crisis series, looks at how the Garden State became one of the country's hottest filming destinations while Los Angeles filming sits at historic lows.

ProdPro data shows the scale of that growth. According to ProdPro, New Jersey's film and TV production spending reached $1.2 billion in 2025, ranking fourth in the U.S. behind only California, New York and Georgia. That compares with just $67 million in spending less than a decade ago, according to the state's Economic Development Authority. ProdPro also found that nearly three dozen major film and TV projects were produced in New Jersey in 2025, twice as many as five years earlier.

The Times traces the growth to a sustained policy push. In 2018, New Jersey adopted transferable tax credits of up to 35%, and it has since added coverage for a portion of above-the-line salaries and extended the program to 2049. Netflix, Paramount and Lionsgate hold "studio partner" status, which brings a 40% base credit in exchange for a 10-year commitment to the state.

New infrastructure is following the incentives. Netflix is building a 12-soundstage campus at the former Ft. Monmouth Army base, Great Point Studios is building six stages in Newark with Lionsgate as anchor tenant, and the planned 1888 Studios in Bayonne has signed Paramount as its anchor. Productions already filming in the state include Netflix's Grown Ups 3 and Big Mistakes, CBS's Cupertino and Fox's The Masked Singer.

As new stage capacity comes online, ProdPro will keep tracking how New Jersey's share of production grows. For the latest state-by-state numbers, see the ProdPro Q3 2026 TV & Film Industry Insights Report.

Read the full article in the Los Angeles Times.

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