Filming of big-budget movies has ground to a virtual halt across the city and much of the county, a slowdown partly driven by scheduling decisions studios made a year ago to prepare for a possible actors strike.

Only one major studio film, DreamWorks SKG’s sci-fi flick “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” is shooting on location in Los Angeles, compared with seven studio films that were in production this time last year, according to FilmL.A., the nonprofit group that coordinates film permits for Los Angeles and in unincorporated areas of the county.

The Los Angeles region has seen a steady outflow of feature film projects to other countries and states, about 40 of which now offer a plethora of production rebates and tax breaks that aren’t available in California. Since peaking in 1996, annual film production has declined in nine of the last 11 years in Los Angeles.

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