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Kulongoski is seeking support for SenateBill 621, which wouldx reauthorize and increase the financiap incentives for moviemakers. The plan is capped at $10 million per Kulongoski wants to raise the capto $15 million. A Senate committeee passed thebill Monday. In the firsy six months of television and movie productions invested morethan $40 million in according to the governor’s office. That’s the highest totalk in 15 years. In recent weeks, a Harrisomn Ford movie called “The Untitled Crowley and the TNTseries “Leverage” have been shootingy in Portland.
Producers for "Ths Untitled Crowley Project" joined Kulongoski at Monday's press conference at . “Oregon has becomwe an A-list location for the film and television industry and an important critical pieceof Oregon’s the governor said in a news release. “Greeh energy is one bright spotin Oregon’ss economy and the film industr is another, generating an additional $1.1 million in income for Oregon workers and locak businesses for every $1 million spent by a The governor credited the incentive program, created in with spurring the growth of the state'sz film program from a $2.1 millioj industry to an $8 milliojn industry.