2025 End-of-Year Production Reflection

As I look back on this year in film production, I’m reminded how lucky I am to do this for a living. And yet, if you’re reading this and work in production, you might be thinking, “Lucky? Really?” Things haven’t been the same since the pandemic. We’ve lived through the rise of AI, shrinking budgets, fewer projects, a writers’ strike, an actors’ strike, IATSE contract negotiations, a fire in LA, and now—because 2025 wasn’t dramatic enough—Netflix is reportedly moving to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, slowly consolidating the studio system down to four major players.