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moviemaking

American  
[moov-ee-mayk-ing] / ˈmuv iˌmeɪk ɪŋ /

noun

  1. the art or industry of creating movies, especially directing or producing them.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or engaged in the art or industry of creating movies, especially directing or producing them.

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Silicon Valley doesn’t just want to add more artificial intelligence to the moviemaking process—it seems to want some control over what Hollywood says about A.I. altogether.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

Movies about the moviemaking of yesteryear — where do we go for those?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

Let’s turn to moviemaking, and how I’m about to take it over.

From Barron's Dec. 12, 2025

I didn’t want to find out that what I thought was a terrific comedy was actually the product of a particular New York zeitgeist and an era of Hollywood moviemaking that’s long gone.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 2025

As mass media has grown corporatized—with journalism, publishing, moviemaking, and the music business getting sold and merged into fewer and larger monoliths— geeks feel ever more entitled to take whatever intellectual property they want.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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