Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the suffix "-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.
Olivewood is a metonym for Cyprus's 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.
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.[10]
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.