| BOLLYWOOD | India's film industry, collectively (9) |
| SILVERSCREEN | Film industry (collectively) (6,6) |
| PRESS | The newspaper industry, collectively |
| DIRECTORS | Spiritual guides in the film industry (9) |
| HOLLYWOOD | Hooray for home of US film industry! (9) |
| DEVELOPER | Builder of the film industry? (9) |
| ALEXANDER | First knighted member of the film industry (1942) (9) |
| DEVELOPED | Made progress in the film industry (9) |
| PUPPETEER | Jim Henson's chief role in the film industry (9) |
| PAYORPLAY | Type of film industry contract |
| NOLLYWOOD | West African film-industry sobriquet |
| CELLULOID | Plastic formerly used in the film industry |
| THESTUDIO | Apple TV+ satire about the Hollywood film industry: 2 wds. |
| SCREEN | A partition of timber or stone in a church or a medieval hall; a sieve; framed mesh for serigraphy; the film industry; or, movies collectively (6) |
| HAIL | ___ Caesar! 2016 mystery film starring Josh Brolin about a fixer working in the film industry |
| BIG | The ___ Picture 1989 film starring Kevin Bacon as a director discovering the dark underbelly of the film industry |
| OFNONATION | Idris Elba boosts Ghana's Ghallywood film industry; he starred in this 2015 war drama, the first film ever released exclusively on Netflix |
| SOUTHKOREA | This country's film industry is known as Hallyuwood, from the local word for "wave," referencing the global popularity of the industry's output in recent decades |
| HOLLYWOODWIVES | Novel by Jackie Collins set in the LA film industry, published in 1983 (9,5) |
| USHAKHANNA | Who made her debut as musical director in the Indian film industry with Dil Deke Dekho (1959) and received and received a Filmfare Award nomination for composing the songs for the hit film Souten (198 |
