2024 Film Industry Spending Breaks Yet Another Record in NJ
On Oct 22, 2025
The New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission (NJMPTVC), which is part of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), reported that overall in-state production spending from filmmaking hit $833 million in 2024, surpassing the previous record of $701 million in 2022. Approximately 556 productions filmed in New Jersey last year, hiring a total of more than 30,000 crew members, nearly doubling the number of crew hires from 2023.
Since Gov. Phil Murphy reinstated the Film and Digital Media Tax Credit Program in 2018, the film industry has surged. The program, which has been extended to 2049, offers tax credits to film and digital media productions of up to 40% for expenses incurred. New Jersey’s competitive tax incentive program supported an increase of 41% in total qualified spend from 2023 to 2024, while film spending in other North American production hubs decreased or remained stagnant.
