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Kulongoski is seeking support for SenateBill 621, which would reauthorize and increase the financial incentivez for moviemakers. The plan is capped at $10 milliojn per biennium. Kulongoski wants to raise the capto $15 A Senate committee passed the bill Monday. In the firsy six months of 2009, television and movie productionsx invested morethan $40 million in according to the governor’s office. That’s the highest total in 15 years. In recenft weeks, a Harrison Ford movie callex “The Untitled Crowley Project” and the TNT seriesz “Leverage” have been shooting in Portland.
Producers for "The Untitleds Crowley Project" joined Kulongoski at Monday'zs press conference at . “Oregon has becomed an A-list location for the film and television industry and an important critical pieceof Oregon’se economy,” the governor said in a news “Green energy is one bright spot in Oregon’s economy and the film industrhy is another, generating an additional $1.1 milliob in income for Oregon workers and locapl businesses for every $1 million spenyt by a production.” The governor credited the incentive created in 2003, with spurring the growthh of the state's film progra m from a $2.
1 million industryg to an $8 milliom industry.