SACRAMENTO – Today, Governor Newsom announced that 28 film projects have received awards through the California Film Commission’s recently expanded Film & Television Tax Credit Program. These exciting projects highlight California’s diversity and include a new film from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee, as well as a Long Beach-set biopic produced by Snoop Dogg. 

Collectively, these productions will spur job growth by hiring a total of 4,837 cast and crew, along with 22,614 background performers (measured in days worked), across 831 shooting days statewide. These projects will also generate $337 million in qualified spending throughout California, including $209 million in qualified wages. 

This latest round caps off the mid-way point of Program 4.0, the newly expanded Film & Television Tax Credit Program that went into effect in July 2025 and is now one of the most robust in the nation. Inclusive of this current round, Program 4.0 has, in less than six months, generated $4.17 billion in economic activity and more than 25,000 cast and crew jobs over 4,000 filming days statewide, demonstrating the clear momentum behind film and television production in the place where it all began. 

Seventeen of these new projects will film in locations spanning the entire state, delivering 286 shoot days that will take place outside of the 30-mile Los Angeles filming zone. Out-of-zone locations include Alameda, Contra Costa, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Sonoma counties, as well as Joshua Tree, Palm Springs, San Luis Obispo and Temecula, generating meaningful impact for all these regional economies. Notably, five independent projects will shoot entirely out of the Los Angeles zone.