filmable

[fil-muh-buhl]

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to a story or to a literary work readily adaptable to motion picture form.

Word History and Origins

Origin of filmable¹

First recorded in 1915–20; film + -able

Example Sentences

Of course, in real life, small towns are usually not the setting of highly filmable crime sprees.

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Ballard’s “High-Rise,” a supposedly “unfilmable” book that appears to have posed less of a challenge than du Maurier’s extremely filmable one.

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Georgia is home to a major international airport and a variety of filmable landscapes—mountains, beaches, a big city, countryside—but what really made it a top filming location are the tax credits.

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The producers, emissaries from a major studio, initiate ritual courtship — brandishing the keys to a virtual village of filmable, prefab intellectual property.

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And if there’s one segment of the business world that seems to combine these traits into one big, filmable bundle —  almost a genre unto itself —  it is movies about banking and the financial services industries.

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