Toronto 2015 Great Film, Great Television, Great Digital Media
Suits ‐ Bravo
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Saving Hope ‐ CTV
Total On-Screen Industry Economic Output in Toronto
The entire On‐Screen Industry including our Broadcasters (Bell Media, CBC, Corus Entertainment, CTV, Rogers etc), our Interactive Digital Media (IDM) stakeholders and our Film, Television and Digital Media productions invested approximately $2.79 B in Toronto’s Economy in 2015.
Source: CMPA, Interactive Ontario, CPAT and EI Production Information Sheets
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Total Production Investment
Toronto 2015
Total $1.55B Expenditures by Screen‐Based production companies in Toronto reached a record $1.55 Billion in 2015. 2015 is the 5th consecutive year total production spending has exceeded $1 Billion.
Total $1.238B
Source: EI Film production information sheets and CPAT
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Major Foreign and Domestic Productions
Number and Investment by type 2015
Total $1.062B Shown here are the total number of Major Productions and total spending by each production type.
Total $947M
Source: EI Film production information sheets
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Major Production Investment
2001 Peak Year and 2010 to 2015
This represents all Major Productions that filmed with all or some location work in Toronto. The $CDN was down sharply over 2015 and below $0.80 USD for the first time since 2004.
Source: EI Film production information sheets and Bank of Canada
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Foreign Major Production Investment
2009 to 2015
This chart includes all U.S. and International Major Production activity filmed onlocation in Toronto (feature films, movies made-for-television, mini-series, TV specials and TV series). Expenditures on Foreign Major Productions increased by 80% over 2014 to again be over $500M. This increase is directly attributable to strong US tv series and feature film spending.
Source: EI Film production information sheets and Bank of Canada
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Domestic Major Production Investment
2009 to 2015 This chart includes all domestic and Canadian coproduction Major Production activity filmed on-location in Toronto. Domestic production investment has been steadily at or above $500M for the past 4 years. The decrease in this activity for 2015 was due to three major domestic TV series reaching the end of their production lifecycle.
Source: EI Film production information sheets and Bank of Canada
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Feature Film Production Investment
2009 to 2015
This chart includes spending for both domestic and foreign productions filmed with a minimum of one day of location shooting in Toronto. Feature Film spending remains relatively high in Toronto and looks to continue to grow in 2016.
7% decrease
27% decrease 87% increase
11% decrease 33% decrease
Source: EI Film production information sheets and Bank of Canada
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Television Production Investment
2009 to 2015
This chart includes both domestic and foreign productions for television series and specials filmed with a minimum of one day of location shooting in Toronto. 3.7% increase
2015 saw the largest increase in this production type since 2012, attributable to new major episodic series shooting in Toronto.
3% increase
21% increase
14% increase
31% increase
Source: EI Film production information sheets and Bank of Canada
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Commercials Production Investment
2008 to 2015
This chart includes all domestic and foreign commercials produced in Toronto. Commercials investment increased by 78% in 2015. This is attributable to more comprehensive data from the Commercial Producers’ Association of Toronto (CPAT) combined with a definite increase in Toronto based production activity. Source: CPAT and Bank of Canada
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Location Filming Projects
2008 to 2015
This represents the
total number of
projects of all types
hosted in Toronto’s
various residential
and business
communities as well
as our BIAs.
This would include:
Feature Film;
Episodic TV Series;
TV Specials;
Music Videos;
TV Commercials;
Student Productions;
and Corporate
Productions.
Source: EI Film production information sheets
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Location Filming Shoot Days
2008 to 2015
A shooting day is one day of production from start to wrap for one production company, on location or on street in our residential and business communities as well as our BIAs, as permitted by the Toronto Film & Television Office. These figures do not include studio or private property shooting days of work or those spent on animation or visual special effects.
