Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the letters "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been given to various locations around the world with associations to the film industry - inspired by the iconic Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, whose name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States. Some of the following names, however, did in fact exist before Hollywood.
The first Hollywood-inspired nickname, dating back to 1932, was Tollywood, referring to the Bengali film industry in Tollygunge (then in the Bengal Presidency of British India, now in the West Bengal state of India). The most widely recognized Hollywood[1]inspired nickname is Bollywood, the informal name for the Hindi language film industry in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India.
Film Industry
Asia
1. East Asia
a. Mainland China
i.
Cantonwood refers to the cinema
of Hong Kong for Cantonese language films.
ii.
Chinawood is a nickname for
the Hengdian World Studios, the largest film studio in China, part of the
cinema of China.
b.
Taiwood refers to the
cinema of Taiwan, the most popular in the Taiwanese Wave.
c.
Hallyuwood refers to the
cinema of South Korea, the most popular in the Korean Wave.
d.
Hogawood refers to the
cinema of Japan, the most popular in Japanese popular culture.
2. South Asia
a.
Bollywood is the informal
name given to the Bombay-based Hindi language film industry in Mumbai,
Maharashtra, India.
b.
Pollywood may refer to: the
cinema of Punjab, India. the Pashto language movie industry in Peshawar, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
c.
Lollywood refers to the
Punjabi films of Pakistani film industry based in the city of Lahore, Punjab,
Pakistan.
d.
Dhallywood or Dhaliwood
refers to the Bangladeshi film industry, based in the city of Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
e.
Chhollywood is the colloquial
name given to the Chhattisgarhi language movie industry in Chhattisgarh, India.
f.
Tollywood may refer to: the
Bengali film industry in Tollygunge, West Bengal, India. It was the first
Hollywood-inspired nickname, dating back to 1932, and the Telugu film industry
in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
g.
Follywood refers to Cinema
of Sri Lanka.
h.
Kollywood refers to Tamil
cinema in Kodambakkam, Chennai of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
i.
Kaliwood refers to the
cinema of Nepal in the city of Kathmandu
j.
Mollywood may also refer to
the Malayalam film industry in the state of Kerala.
k.
Sandalwood refers to the
Kannada language film industry in Karnataka, India.
l. Jollywood refers to the film industry of Assam state.
m. Ollywood is the colloquial name given to the Odia language movie industry in Odisha, India.
n.
Kariwood refers to the
Pakistani film industry, based in the city of Karachi.
o.
Dhollywood or Gollywood
refers to the cinema of Gujarati Language in Gujarat, India.
p.
Coastalwood refers to Tulu
cinema in the Tulunad region (Udupi,Mangalore of Karnataka state, Kasaragod of
Kerala state), India.
3. Others
a.
Aseanwood refers to the
Southeast Asian cinema, named after the ASEAN.
b.
Kazakhwood is an informal
name for Kazakhstan was proposed for use, from Kazakh director Bakhyt Aupbayev.
c.
Pallywood is a term used to
describe potential anti-Israeli media manipulation through video footage.
Africa
a.
Ghollywood refers to the film
industry in Ghana.
b.
Hillywood refers to the
annual Rwanda Film Festival and to the film industry in general in Rwanda, a
country known for its hilly terrain.
c.
Nollywood refers to the film
industry in Nigeria.
d.
Kannywood refers to the
Hausa-language film industry of Northern Nigeria, based in Kano.
e.
Riverwood is the film
industry in Kenya.
f.
Swahiliwood refers to the
cinema of Tanzania
g.
Ugawood is the Ugandan
film industry.
h.
Wakaliwood refers to the film
studio in Wakaliga, Kampala, Uganda, which specialises in very violent films.
i.
Zollywood refers to the
cinema of Zimbabwe.
j.
Karewood refers to the
Karai-Karai-language film industry of Northern Nigeria, based in Yobe.
The Americas
a)
Chollywood refers to the
Peruvian film industry. It is also spelled …"Choliwood."
b)
Hollywood North refers to
film and television production in Canada, especially the cities of Vancouver
and Toronto.
c)
Mollywood may refer to the
Mormon film industry in the United States.
d)
Tamalewood may refer to the
active film industry of the state of New Mexico.
e)
Somaliwood refers to the film
industry that has sprung up aroundthe Somali immigrant community of Columbus, Ohio.
f)
Peruliwood refers to film
production in Peru.
g)
Y'allywood refers to film
production in Atlanta, Georgia.
Europe
a)
Etyekwood is the informal
name given in the media to Hungary's new Korda Studios in the wine[1]making
village of Etyek near Budapest.
b)
Görliwood is the informal
name for the German city of Görlitz, which frequently serves as a filming
location.
c)
Hollyhammar was used to refer
to a TV production facility in Hallstahammar, Sweden, in the 1990s.
d)
Olivewood is metonymy and
the official marking of Cyprus efforts to mature into a high-value movie
production destination.
e)
Pinewood, the name given
because of the pine trees surrounding it. It is located in Buckinghamshire,
England. This studio dates fromthe 1930s so its real name predates the +wood
suffix.
f)
Trollywood is the informal
name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden.
g)
Valleywood is the informal
name for the Dragon International film studio complex in Wales.
h)
Oceania Wellywood refers
to Wellington, New Zealand - home of Weta Workshop, Weta Digital and Peter
Jackson's film studio.
i)
Mollywood is sometimes
jokingly used to describe the Hollywood Sign-inspired town name on the hillside
at the eastern edge of Mosgiel in New Zealand.
j)
Aussiewood or Oziwood refers
to Australian cinema, including Ozploitation from the 1970s and 1980s but
post-dates the genre.
Some Hollywood-inspired nicknames do not refer directly to the film
industry:
·
Other Dollywood is an amusement park owned by
Dolly Parton.
·
FC Hollywood is a nickname for FC Bayern
Munich, used especially widely by German media in the 1990s, an era in which
Bayern players were as likely to appear in gossip pages as in sports pages.
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