List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames

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,[1] referring to the Bengali film industry in Tollygunge (then in the Bengal Presidency of British India, now in the West Bengal state of India).[2] The most widely recognized Hollywood-inspired nickname is Bollywood, the informal name for the Hindi language film industry in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India.

Film industry

East Asia

South Asia

Others

Africa

The Americas

  • Chollywood refers to the Peruvian film industry. It is also spelled "Choliwood."
  • Hollywood North refers to film and television production in Canada, especially the cities of Vancouver and Toronto.
  • Mollywood may refer to the Mormon film industry in the United States.
  • Tamalewood may refer to the active film industry of the state of New Mexico.
  • Somaliwood refers to the film industry that has sprung up around the Somali immigrant community of Columbus, Ohio.
  • Peruliwood refers to film production in Peru.
  • Y'allywood refers to film production in Atlanta, Georgia.

Europe

  • Etyekwood is the informal name given in the media to Hungary's new Korda Studios in the wine-making village of Etyek near Budapest.
  • Görliwood is the informal name for the German city of Görlitz, which frequently serves as a filming location.
  • Hollyhammar was used to refer to a TV production facility in Hallstahammar, Sweden, in the 1990s.[4]
  • Olivewood is metonymy and the official marking of Cyprus efforts to mature into a high-value movie production destination.
  • Pinewood, the name given because of the pine trees surrounding it. It is located in Buckinghamshire, England. This studio dates from the 1930s so its real name predates the +wood suffix.
  • 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.

Oceania

Other

Some Hollywood-inspired nicknames do not refer directly to the film industry:

  • 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.

See also

References

  1. "Bollywood, Pollywood, Tollywood, and More - Film Industry Nicknames Around The World".
  2. Sarkar, Bhaskar (2008). "The Melodramas of Globalization". Cultural Dynamics. 20: 31–51 [34]. doi:10.1177/0921374007088054.
  3. "Media for Development International - Promoting development through entertainment". www.mfditanzania.com.
  4. "Kommunen säljer Hollyhammar". Vestmanlands Läns Tidning (in Swedish). 23 April 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  5. "Kia ora: Mosgiel", Jul 25, 2014, NZ Herald
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