It's June, the SB 22 money is flowing, and the stages are full. Here's an honest snapshot of what's filming, what just wrapped, and what's spinning up across Texas as of early summer 2026. Where a detail is confirmed, we say so. Where it's still moving, we say that too.
North Texas: The Sheridan Belt
Frisco King — Fort Worth
The Tulsa King spinoff led by Samuel L. Jackson closed down 4th and Main in downtown Fort Worth in late May to film. Eight-episode first season for Paramount+, every episode written by Taylor Sheridan. It's the most visible production in the state right now if only because it keeps closing streets.
Lioness — North Texas
Renewed for Season 3 and filming, with Fort Worth street closures earlier this spring. Another piece of the Sheridan slate keeping North Texas crew employed year-round.
Recently wrapped: The Madison & Dutton Ranch
The Madison (Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell) shot its second season entirely in North Texas between September and December 2025. Dutton Ranch — the Yellowstone continuation filmed across Ferris, Boyd, Cleburne, Grandview, Weatherford, Dallas, Rio Vista, Fort Worth, and Mineral Wells — debuted in May 2026 as the biggest original-series launch in Paramount+ history. Both are off the floor for now, but they tell you where the work has been.
Austin: The Independent Engine
Brass Knuckle Films — in development
Robert Rodriguez's new five-film company took its slate to the Cannes market in May 2026. Smooth Operators, an action film written by DJ Cotrona, is positioned as the opener with Rodriguez directing. No confirmed Texas start date yet, but Troublemaker Studios in Austin remains his base. [UNVERIFIED: specific Texas shoot dates/locations for the Brass Knuckle slate not yet announced as of this writing.]
The festival-fueled indie pipeline
Austin's independent scene runs on a different clock than the studio slate — AFS-funded shorts and features moving through production and post ahead of the fall festival run. Watch the AFS Grant for Short Films, which reopens July 23, for the next wave of locally financed work.
Studio Capacity: What's Holding It All
The SGS Studios campus at AllianceTexas in Fort Worth — 450,000 square feet, capacity for four simultaneous large productions — is the backbone of the current boom. With Paramount as a partner and Sheridan as the anchor tenant, the stages have stayed occupied since Landman Season 2 christened them in 2025.
The Through-Line
The story of summer 2026 is concentration: an enormous share of active Texas production runs through one creator and one North Texas campus, underwritten by a newly reliable state incentive. That's a remarkable amount of work for Texas crew — and a reminder that a healthy industry eventually needs more than one engine. Austin's independent and genre filmmakers are the counterweight. Both halves are shooting. Keep your eye on both.
We update this roundup as productions confirm. Working on something in Texas right now? Tell us: hello@texas.film.
Texas Film Commission: gov.texas.gov/film