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movie

noun

ˈmü-vē

Definition of movie

as in film

a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track there was much excitement when it was announced that the popular children's book would be turned into a movie

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movies plural the art or business of making a movie many a small-town girl has gone to Hollywood, dreaming of making it big in the movies

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Recent Examples of movie Jack seeks out every movie, book, and newspaper article about gangland. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 It’s been almost six years since a film that premiered at a fall film festival took home best picture, with the last movie to do so being Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which premiered at Venice and won the Golden Lion in 2020. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026 Or that the Apollo moon landing in 1969 was staged, the video shot on some clandestine movie set. — Susan Page, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 According to Mubi’s head of theatrical marketing, Matt Goldman, that reaction is especially fitting considering Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’s movie-within-a-movie subplot. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for movie

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The film spawned the sequels Ocean’s 12 in 2004 and 2007’s Ocean’s 13, in which both of them reprised their roles.

— Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
Joie de Vivre is produced by MeMo Films, the production company co-founded in 2010 by entrepreneur and fashion designer Gabriele Moratti and distributor and film producer Francesco Melzi d’Eril.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026

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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
While visual effects can enhance martial arts on screen, Wu argues that authentic filmmaking still depends on performance.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 25 July 2026

Definition of filmmaking

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Sharma noted the documentary arrives nearly eight years after Nizamdeen’s arrest, and pointed to the Australian Federal Government’s July 2026 response to the country’s first national report on Islamophobia, which accepted 35 of its recommendations.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026
Hot Docs, the world-class documentary film festival in Toronto, has announced some major personnel moves – elevating Diana Sanchez to president and bringing in Mara Gourd-Mercado to succeed Sanchez as executive director.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026

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