Could Hollywood just dissapear in the next 5-10 years?

[PerrySimm]

There are always ebbs and flows in the industry, and LA is always going to be Tinseltown... but it's worth noting that they make Star Trek in Canada now. For shows that don't really require much beyond CG and sets, it's hard to argue against whoever is offering the biggest tax credit.

Just as long as you don't need Kirk's Rock, anyway.

[The Romulan Republic]

I think too much of the industry is entrenched in Hollywood to make it "disappear" in the next decade. Maybe in a few decades, if the model for shows and movies changes enough. But whatever the pricing of unionized film crew labor, the concentration of infrastructure for TV show and movie production in that area is going to be a draw.

Yup. As long as they still need those skills, their's a huge pool of talented, experienced labour that lives in that area.

It'll probably cease to be as important at some point, as things become more and more computerized, but irrelevancy for Hollywood is quite a ways off yet.