US Film Production Jumps 7 Percent to $7.5 Billion in 2016, FilmLA Study Shows

Hollywood producers keep raising the bar on how much they spend to make movies, but the U.S. is slipping when it comes to hosting blockbuster movie sets, a new study from FilmL.A. shows.

The study found that Georgia served as the primary filming location for 17 of the top 100 films at the domestic box office, followed by the United Kingdom with 16, Canada with 13, and California with 12.

In California, animation was king as five animated films accounted for 78 percent ($770 million) of the total $991 million budget value of all California films in the survey.