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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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That all makes a whole lot of sense when you remember that Netflix stumbled into the moviemaking business by nature of trying to revolutionize the movie-renting business.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

At a moment when audiences want to know what goes into moviemaking and are increasingly unsure whether the myriad images they’re looking at were generated by artificial intelligence, the answer is visible labor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

A major new moviemaking talent has arrived and he’s the beginning of a movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

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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