Definitions

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  • noun The production of movies

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  • noun the production of movies

Etymologies

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movie +‎ making

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Examples

  • Hopefully someone will take this leap in moviemaking technology and tell us more interesting stories in the future.

    MOVIEW REVIEW: Avatar 2009

  • During our interview that makes up this week's "Twilight Tuesday," Hardwicke talks about how she becomes so immersed in moviemaking that she even calls the actors by their character's names.

    Catherine Hardwicke, The Invincible Auteur Behind ‘Twilight’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • This devotion to narrative, character, detail, art, comedy, drama, and everything that makes a great movie is why Pixar is unlike anything in moviemaking that’s come before.

    Matt’s Top 20 Films of the 2000s – Collider.com 2009

  • Among the industry’s truly protean figures, he ably filmed every type of genre picture imaginable; weathered several epochal shifts in moviemaking technique (example: with the talkie ascendant, he effortlessly transformed from zealous location realist into sound-stage artifice reveler); and helped shape the screen personas of Gable, Cooper, Tracy, and Fairbanks (and swell the bosoms of Shearer, Bow, Bergman, and Velez).

    Cover to Cover 2009

  • Among the industry’s truly protean figures, he ably filmed every type of genre picture imaginable; weathered several epochal shifts in moviemaking technique (example: with the talkie ascendant, he effortlessly transformed from zealous location realist into sound-stage artifice reveler); and helped shape the screen personas of Gable, Cooper, Tracy, and Fairbanks (and swell the bosoms of Shearer, Bow, Bergman, and Velez).

    Cover to Cover 2009

  • In this regard 3-D is not so different from any other kind of moviemaking, except that its genuine achievements are to date fairly limited.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • It was nice listening to the two kids laughing their heads off as they played "moviemaking" on Sunday.

    shlemazl 2009

  • Measured by numbers of films produced annually, Nigeria is second only to India: Mumbai is the world capital of moviemaking.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Measured by numbers of films produced annually, Nigeria is second only to India: Mumbai is the world capital of moviemaking.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • "I think that it's a tough thing to do and it can be really thankless," Hoberman shares on the art of moviemaking.

    Ashley Wren Collins: Seeking Cinematic Sustenance in a Saturated World Ashley Wren Collins 2011

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