movieland

American  

[moo-vee-land] / ˈmu viˌlænd /

noun

1. a place where many motion pictures are made, especially Hollywood, California.

2. the motion-picture industry, especially considered as including the people who work in it, their attitudes, way of life, etc..

   Movieland has yet to produce low-budget films that are consistently good.

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Etymology

Origin of movieland

First recorded in 1910–15; movie + land

Example Sentences

Much of Todd Haynes’s sly, unnerving “May December” takes place in and around a picture-perfect home, that favorite movieland setting for American dreams turned nightmares.

From New York Times

Indonesian tycoon and chairman of MNC Group, Hary Tanoesoedibjo, has said Movieland will become a creative hub and Indonesia's version of Hollywood.

From Reuters

Its savior since 1997 has been Falzone, a former Broadway theater performer who came West in search of his movieland dreams.

From Los Angeles Times

The conceit of an all-knowing, all-seeing group of underworld puppet-masters is primo movieland conspiracy-theory and very of the moment; it’s silly, nebulously political, and it gives viewers wide latitude to interpret the movie however they prefer — or they can just groove on the plush trappings, exotic locations, exploding heads and bodies in glorious motion.

From New York Times

“Bert has never given much thought to social message,” Beverly Gray wrote on the Beverly in Movieland blog in 2014.

From New York Times