moviemaking

American  

[moov-ee-mayk-ing] / ˈmuv iˌmeɪk ɪŋ /

noun

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

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adjective

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

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025

Though Godard later came to be synonymous with turgid, obtuse cinema, “Nouvelle Vague” is the opposite: a sprightly, effervescent ode to moviemaking as semi-controlled mischief.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Season 7, released in April, continued the show’s prickly use of digital avatars and machine learning as plot devices for stories about moviemaking, video games and even attending a funeral.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025

Actor Dwayne Johnson revealed "a fundamental difference in philosophies on how we approach moviemaking and collaborating" with his Fast & Furious co-star Vin Diesel, in a 2018 interview.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 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