as in film
the art or business of making a movie
that will go down in the annals of filmdom as the worst movie ever
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Recent Examples of filmdom
Takala, however, suspected that his work might be more complex than the stereotype of filmdom’s bumbling Paul Blart.
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Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
But no worries: Why try to duplicate one of the most memorable moments in American filmdom?
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
And while traditional Hollywood debates the impact of Netflix’s ramp-up on filmdom overall, Sarandos firmly believes the streamer’s titles don’t need a theatrical release to have a cultural impact.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 May 2023
For many of those invited to join filmdom’s most prestigious organization this year, the news was received as both a profound honor and a welcome sign of the changing times.
—Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 26 June 2018
But just know that the loud and long sequence gradually becomes yet another of superhero filmdom’s senseless tempests, logic invented—or forgotten—as necessary.
—Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 25 Apr. 2017
But just know that the loud and long sequence gradually becomes yet another of superhero filmdom’s senseless tempests, logic invented—or forgotten—as necessary.
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 25 Apr. 2017
Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
But no worries: Why try to duplicate one of the most memorable moments in American filmdom?
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
And while traditional Hollywood debates the impact of Netflix’s ramp-up on filmdom overall, Sarandos firmly believes the streamer’s titles don’t need a theatrical release to have a cultural impact.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 May 2023
For many of those invited to join filmdom’s most prestigious organization this year, the news was received as both a profound honor and a welcome sign of the changing times.
—Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 26 June 2018
But just know that the loud and long sequence gradually becomes yet another of superhero filmdom’s senseless tempests, logic invented—or forgotten—as necessary.
—Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 25 Apr. 2017
But just know that the loud and long sequence gradually becomes yet another of superhero filmdom’s senseless tempests, logic invented—or forgotten—as necessary.
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 25 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filmdom
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Internationally, the film added $10.1 million for a worldwide start of $18.1 million.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
27 Apr. 2025
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Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Academy also issued its first formal guidance on AI in filmmaking.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2025
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Screenwriters, who were treated by the front office as the disposable help, got a measure of revenge by portraying their employers as idiots or vulgarians whose sole role in filmmaking was to write the checks and gum up the works.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Apr. 2025
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Talkies—movies with synchronized sound, introduced in the late nineteen-twenties—were a setback.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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His family retained their love for Italian culture, and Bergoglio grew up listening to opera and watching every Italian movie that came to town.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Étoile doesn’t just make that argument, in guest appearances by artists who bridge high and low, like David Byrne, and shouting out the brilliant documentarian Frederick Wiseman in a scene set at the Manhattan cinema mecca Film Forum.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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First as Jacques Demy’s Madonna figure in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), then in films by Truffaut, Polanski, and Buñuel, then during her stint in Hollywood and her later career as Andre Téchiné’s muse and inspiration to Millennial newcomers, Deneuve embodies a leftist French cinema ideal.—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Filmdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filmdom. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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