moviemaking

as in filmmaking
the art or business of making a movie a director with 25 years of experience at moviemaking

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Recent Examples of moviemaking Midcentury-modern design—and the moviemaking magic of Lucas himself. Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026 This is not to save the Looney Tunes, but to save the future of moviemaking. James Grebey, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2026 From the outset, Schoenbrun asked the designers to look to old moviemaking tricks for inspiration to make the landscapes at the Camp Miasma set as dreamy and immersive as the director envisioned. Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026 Those soundtrack albums are the closest Carpenter has come to the moviemaking business in the past 16 years. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026 With seven floors of exhibitions and wo movie theaters, the Academy Museum is the largest museum in the world devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking. Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 For its upcoming Los Angeles venue, experiential art firm Meow Wolf will focus on the art of storytelling, with a specific eye toward spoofing our city’s moviemaking magic. Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 The moviemaking is faithful, literal, and dead. David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026 Seth Rogen’s studio head character kept trying to argue to a room full of doctors that moviemaking was just as important as medicine. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moviemaking
Noun
  • La Gradiva takes a tragic turn in its final act that forces a reexamination of the loose, observant filmmaking that led to it.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Universal acclaim or not, the film launched his groundbreaking directing career and helped usher in a new era of Black independent filmmaking.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • It was overshadowed completely by the film adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by my countryman Norman Jewison and released a few months after our film, to big crowds and grosses.
    Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Hollywood’s leading studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), intended the film to be an important one; it had been allocated one of the largest budgets in cinematic history, two million dollars.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But this element does pop up in your movies, the idea that New York exists in nature.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Then, further research changed that view, replacing it with the active, bird-like animal shown in the movie Jurassic Park.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026

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“Moviemaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moviemaking. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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