List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames
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Hollywood is such an iconic name that various other locations associated with the film industry are nicknamed with Hollywood-inspired names. Most starting with the first letter(s) of the location and ending in the letters "-ollywood" or "-wood".
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[edit] South Asia
- Dholiwoodis the informal name given to the Dhol-double-headed drum from gujarat.[citation needed]
- Bollywood is the informal name given to the Mumbai-based film industry in India.
- Kabulwood is the name of Afghan Cinema.[citation needed]
- Dhaliwood or Dhallywood refers to the Bangladeshi film industry, based in the city of Dhaka.
- Kariwood refers to the Pakistani film industry, based in the city of Karachi.
- Kollywood is the name of the Tamil language film industry, based in the Kodambakkam district of Chennai, India.
- Kollywood West can refer to Tamil films produced in western countries, such as Canada, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
- Kollywood South can refer to the filmmaking hubs of Singaporean Tamil films or Sri Lankan Tamil films.
- Kollywood Nepal may also refer to the cinema of Nepal, the capital of which is Kathmandu.
- Lollywood refers to the Pakistani film industry, based in the city of Lahore.
- Mollywood may refer to the Malayalam film industry in India.
- Ollywood is the colloquial name given to the Oriya language movie industry in Orissa, India.
- Pollywood is the colloquial name given to the Pashtu language movie industry in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- Punjwood refers to the Punjabi language film industry in India.
- Sandalwood refers to the Kannada language Karnataka film industry in Karnataka, India.
- Sollywood has been used to refer to the Sindhi film industry.
- Tollywood may refer to the Bengali film industry in Tollygunge, West Bengal, India. It was the first Hollywood-inspired nickname, dating back to 1932.
- Tollywood may also refer to the Telugu film industry in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
[edit] Other
- Bulawood is the name given to the Fiji film industry, Bula being a greeting in the Fijian language
- Chinawood is a nickname for the Hengdian World Studio, the largest filmstudio in China.
- Chollywood refers to the Peruvian film industry. It is also spelled "Choliwood."
- Etyekwood is the informal name given in the media to Hungary's new Korda Studios under construction in the wine-making village of Etyek near Budapest.
- Hollyhammar refers to the film industry in Hallstahammar, Sweden.
- Hollywood North refers to film and television production in Canada, especially the cities of Vancouver and Toronto.
- Kgalewood refers to an area at the bottom of Kgale Hill in Gaborone, Botswana, the set for the TV series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
- Mollywood may refer to the Mormon film industry in the United States.
- Nollywood is the Nigerian film industry.
- Pinewood, name given because of the pine trees surrounding it. Is located in Buckinghamshire, England
- Pallywood is a term used by conservative commentators to describe alleged anti-Israeli media manipulation through video footage.
- Somaliwood refers to the film industry that has sprung up around the Somali immigrant community of Columbus, Ohio.
- Tamalewood is the nickname for the film industry in the state of New Mexico.[citation needed]
- Trollywood is the informal name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden.
- Valleywood is the informal name for the Dragon International film studio complex in Wales.
- Wellywood refers to Wellington, New Zealand - home of Weta Workshop, Weta Digital and Peter Jackson's film studio.
- Gollywood is the nickname for the film industry in the state of Gujarat.[citation needed]
[edit] Other
Some Hollywood-inspired nicknames do not refer directly to the film industry:
- Dollywood is an amusement park owned by Dolly Parton. It may also be used as an alternative spelling for Dhaliwood.
- "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.
- "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.
