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Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter(s) 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.

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The first such Hollywood-inspired nickname, dating back to 1932, was Tollywood, referring to the Bengali film industry in Tollygunge, West Bengal, India.

South Asia

  • Bollywood is the informal name given to the Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India.
  • Pollywood may refer to the Cinema of Punjab or Pashto cinema.
  • Pollywood is the Punjabi language film industry in India. It is based in the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi.
  • Pollywood is the Punjabi language film industry in Pakistan. It is based in the Punjab province.
  • Pollywood is a colloquial name given to the Pashto language movie industry in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
  • Lollywood refers to the Urdu and Punjabi films of Pakistani film industry based in the city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
  • Dhallywood or Dhaliwood refers to the Bangladeshi film industry, based in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Chhollywood is the colloquial name given to the Chhattisgarhi language movie industry in Chhattisgarh, India.
  • 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.
  • Kollywood is the colloquial name given to the Tamil language film industry in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
  • Mollywood may also refer to the Malayalam film industry in the state of Kerala.
  • Sandalwood refers to the Kannada language film industry in Karnataka, India.
  • Jollywood is the colloquial name given to the Assamese language movie industry based on Jyoti Chitraban, Guwahati, Assam.
  • Ollywood is the colloquial name given to the Odia language movie industry in Odisha, India.
  • Kariwood refers to the Pakistani film industry, based in the city of Karachi.
  • Kaliwood refers to the cinema of Nepal, the capital of which is Kathmandu.
  • Dhollywood or Gollywood refers to the cinema of Gujarati Language in Gujarat, India .

    • Africa

  • Ghollywood refers to the Ghana film industry.
  • Hillywood refers to the emerging film industry in Rwanda
  • Kannywood refers to the film industry in Kano, Nigeria
  • Nollywood is the film industry in Lagos, Nigeria.
  • Riverwood is the film industry in Kenya
  • Swahiliwood refers to the cinema of Tanzania
  • Ugawood is the Ugandan film industry.
  • Wakaliwood refers to the film studio in Wakaliga, Kampala, Uganda, which specialises in very violent films.
  • Zollyuwood refers to Cinema of Zimbabwe

    • America

  • 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.
  • 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.

    • Europe

  • 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 was used to refer to a TV production facility in Hallstahammar, Sweden, in the 1990s.
  • Pinewood, name given because of the pine trees surrounding it. Is located in Buckinghamshire, England
  • 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.

    • Other

  • Chinawood is a nickname for the Hengdian World Studio, the largest filmstudio in China.
  • Pallywood is a term used by conservative commentators to describe alleged anti-Israeli media manipulation through video footage.
  • Wellywood refers to Wellington, New Zealand - home of Weta Workshop, Weta Digital and Peter Jackson's film studio.
  • Hallyuwood refers to Cinema of South Korea

    • 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.
  • "Vinewood" is the name of a video game neighbourhood within the Grand Theft Auto Series, notably in Grand Theft Auto 5 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It is based on the real life district in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

    • References

    List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames Wikipedia
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