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Today’s introduction is by Brooks Barnes, our Hollywood reporter based in Los Angeles.

Five years ago, there was no sadder stretch of Hollywood, the neighborhood, than the one left for dead by Hollywood, the industry.

Soundstages at Sunset Boulevard and Bronson Avenue looked as though they had not been updated in decades, perhaps since Warner Bros. decamped to Burbank in the 1930s. A nearby complex, vacated by Columbia Pictures in 1972, had lost one of its last long-term productions, “Dexter.” So it went block after block: The party had moved on — not just to newer facilities, but to cheaper locales like Canada and Louisiana.

But the streaming-service boom and expanded tax credits intended to lure “runaway” production back to California have suddenly given these old movie lots a new lease on life.