Wiktionary
n. the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
WordNet
n. those involved in producing and distributing movies [syn: movie industry, screenland]
Wikipedia
The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors and other film crew personnel.
Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies. Advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve. Hollywood is the oldest film industry of the world and the largest in terms of box office gross and number of screens.
Usage examples of "film industry".
If she were even remotely capable of being any of those things that Judith Haynes had, for God knew what misbegotten reasons, accused her of being, then she had no right to be in the film industry as a continuity girl, she was in more than a fair way to making her fame and fortune as one of the great actresses of our time.
As for its sequel, Goebbels suppressed it (at the same time offering Lang the job as head of the German film industry) and Lang fled to the U.
They were afraid that earthquakes and racial unrest could destroy the film industry.
Veterans of the film industry would swear the whole thing pre-dated Edison's kinetoscope.
The eight minute scene largely accounted for Uruburu's billing as 'not for the squeamish' and its overnight success as a box office favourite, heralding Mr Kiester's meteoric rise in the film industry.
The film industry is full of thriving duffers and speechless millionaires.
The film industry has such a hard time fashioning a well-written, cohesive, character-driven plot these days, it would be foolish to encourage today's filmmakers to become even more obsessed with toys and tools, rather than simple storytelling.
Her wedding in 1978 to Hiram Berthelot, a Georgian whose grandfather had made a fortune in textiles, has gradually -- inevitably --untied her from the film industry, and Lia feels sure that the severing of this identity-giving knot has at last begun to unravel her new client.
The rumor mill spat out the names of famous clients: movie stars, assorted film industry lampreys, politicians, developers.
But that has not diminished at all his importance in the film industry.