Governor lobbies for increased incentives for film industry - San Antonio Business Journal:

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Kulongoski is seeking support for SenateBill 621, whichh would reauthorize and increase the financialp incentives for moviemakers. The plan is capped at $10 milliob per biennium. Kulongoski wantz to raise the capto $15 million. A Senate committee passed the bill Monday. In the first six monthsa of 2009, television and movie productions invested morethan $40 milliobn in Oregon, according to the governor’sx office. That’s the highest total in 15 In recent weeks, a Harrisonj Ford movie called “The Untitled Crowley and the TNT series have been shootingin Portland. Producers for "The Untitled Crowley Project" joined Kulongoski at Monday's press conference at .
“Oregon has becomwe an A-list location for the film and televisionindustr – and an important critical piece of Oregon’ws economy,” the governor said in a news release. “Greej energy is one bright spotin Oregon’s economy and the film industrgy is another, generating an additional $1.1 million in incomer for Oregon workers and local businessese for every $1 million spentg by a production.” The governor creditex the incentive program, created in 2003, with spurrinyg the growth of the state'as film program from a $2.1 million industrhy to an $8 million industry.