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What is Production Bulletin?

Production Bulletin is a Los Angeles-based subscription service that tracks film and television projects in pre-production. Subscribers get a searchable online database plus a weekly PDF report published every Sunday; per Production Bulletin's own FAQ, the report is "simply a PDF version of the Production Bulletin database, organized by primary filming location," so a subscription buys one dataset in two formats rather than two products. Listings carry production-office contact details, above-the-line crew and attached companies alongside dates, locations and loglines.

Pricing: Production Bulletin advertises a single plan: $79.90/month, billed monthly, described at checkout as a non-refundable recurring charge that renews until you cancel. Its FAQ says membership "starts at" that figure because expanded and customised reporting is sold as a paid add-on above the standard subscription — no price for those add-ons is published anywhere on the public site, so we can't say what a comparable setup costs in total. The site publishes no team or multi-user pricing. No free trial is advertised on its homepage, signup page, FAQ or Terms, though the checkout does include a coupon-code field. Figures checked August 2026 — treat them as approximate and confirm current rates and terms on productionbulletin.com/signup.

When Production Bulletin might be the better fit

• •A weekly PDF sorted by primary filming location is genuinely useful if you work one market and want a single document to read start-to-finish, mark up, or keep. ProductionList is built to be searched, not read cover-to-cover.
• •Their weekly reports are published as a dated archive, which suits anyone who wants a record of what was announced when. Their FAQ states live listings drop off roughly 90 days after a project's start date unless updated, so the back issues are where older announcements live — worth asking them how far that archive reaches if it matters to you.
• •Production Bulletin names the U.K., Western Europe and Australia among the territories it actively reports on. If your work centres there, compare its listings against ours in those specific markets before choosing — we haven't audited either side's depth territory by territory.
• •They sell expanded and customised reporting on top of a standard subscription, aimed at specific production types, locations or industry contacts. We don't offer an equivalent bespoke service. Their pricing for it isn't published, so ask them directly.

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Production Bulletin vs ProductionList — FAQ

Is ProductionList a good Production Bulletin alternative?

They do broadly the same job: track projects heading into production and publish the production-office contacts to reach them. The practical differences are what you can check before paying and what you pay. ProductionList's titles, dates and locations are readable free with no card, while Production Bulletin's public database scrambles the start date, location and production company until you subscribe. One thing worth saying plainly about both: pre-production listings are early by design, so a listing is a lead to pursue, not a posted opening.

How much does Production Bulletin cost?

Its site lists $79.90/month, billed monthly. The signup page authorises "a non-refundable $79.90" that renews automatically each month until cancelled, and the FAQ states there are no refunds. That is the entry price rather than a ceiling: the FAQ says membership "starts at" $79.90 and that expanded or customised reporting can be bought on top, without publishing what those add-ons cost. No team or multi-user pricing is published. Checked August 2026 — confirm current rates on productionbulletin.com/signup.

Can I see Production Bulletin's listings before subscribing?

Partly. Its database at productionbulletin.com/database is viewable without an account and shows the project title, project type and, where listed, the director in plain text — but the Start Date, Location and Production Co. columns are replaced with scrambled characters, and the per-project pages scramble the values under STATUS, LOCATION(S), DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, PRODUCTION STAFF and WRITER. You can see that a field exists without reading it. The weekly PDF itself is behind the subscription. That was the behaviour in August 2026; the page needs no login, so you can check it yourself.

Which one covers more productions?

We can't give you an honest head-to-head number. Production Bulletin publishes no coverage figure anywhere on its public site — no count of productions, listings, contacts or members. Its public database listed 3,844 projects when we checked on 28 August 2026, but that is a rolling window, not a cumulative total: its FAQ says listings remain visible roughly 90 days after their start date, with older records reachable through past weekly reports. That isn't a like-for-like denominator against our own count, so we're not going to present it as one. If the comparison matters to you, ask them directly.