Filmmaking's economic impact on Missouri

Missouri’s popularity with the film industry is on the increase; more than half of the movies shot in Missouri were filmed in just the past 10 years. Already in the first years of this new century, 122 movies have been filmed here. This translates into big business. Missouri’s Motion Media industry employs more than 7,600 workers at above state average wages and adds several billion dollars to our economy each year.

more at Video/Film Production in Springfield-Branson-Ozarks 
and a letter from the director of the Missouri Film Commission in the Columbia Daily-Tribune