film company
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2.3
- noun
- /fɪlm ˈkʌmpəni/
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productora de cine
- Everyone was warned, the film company was very good about telling us.
Examples
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My first job working for a film company in Los Angeles, I was, I was on the set as a recordist, sound recordist.
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There's a film company that wants to buy the rights to that first book.
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This is a film company.
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I would try to get the film company I was working with to do it.
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And the film company asked me to come out for a screening somewhere in the Midwest.
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Soon after, a competing film company began production on its own giant-monster flick.
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The Korean festival was also approached by a figure claiming to represent a Chinese film company, who offered to purchase Ying's movie.
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Earlier this afternoon, Walt Disney Co. announced that an agreement has been made to purchase George Lucas' film company, Lucasfilm, for $4.05 billion.
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They’re from a real film company... ...making a real movie about Minecraft.
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The film company is known for producing award-winning documentaries.
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a company engaged in producing, advertising, and distributing movies' is directly derivable from combining 'film' (movie) and 'company' (organization), so an average B1 learner who knows both words will understand it. This noun + noun composition is a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern for naming businesses or organizations, making the MWE readily comprehensible.
Etymology
The name film company comes from when movies were made on long strips of film, thin pictures on plastic, and a company was a group of people who made and sold them. That clear image of people making and selling strips of film is why film company today means a business that makes, promotes, and distributes movies.