Hush over Hollywood: why has it become so hard to make films in Los Angeles?

“Nothing shoots in Los Angeles,” Scott said. “That’s exactly what’s not happening here [in Los Angeles],” she said. FilmLA, the non-profit created to coordinate permitting across the many cities of greater Los Angeles, raised its fees last year. View image in fullscreen Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. “If we were back in the period where we have more money than we can spend, this would be a no-brainer,” Jackson told the Los Angeles Times.