Have you ever wanted to try running your own movies studio?

The Movies gives you that opportunity by putting you in the shoes of an aspiring movie mogul starting in 1920s Hollywood. Hire directors and actors for your films, ensuring they get enough acting/directing practice to ensure they'll give their best performances. Be careful not to stress them too much though or next thing you'll know, they'll be drowning their sorrows with alcohol (or food). Don't forget to recruit builders, janitors, film crew, scientists, scriptwriters and personal assistants too, they're also just as important to ensuring the success of your studio.

Once you've hired the actors, directors and ancillary staff you require to make movies, you'll also need to construct places for them to work and relax. A majority of your studio lot will be occupied by sets of one of five genres (Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Romance and Comedy) which you can research and then build to be used for filming your movies. While your scriptwriters are making the final touches to that 5-star film script, you can get your directors and actors to practice their roles on the set.

Eventually the script is complete and you must then decide which actors and directors would make the best fit for the film as the game takes into account not only how much experience the actors/directors have, but how good-looking they are (important for actors) and how well they get along with the rest of the crew. Filming then starts and it's your job to make sure that the actors and directors don't throw tantrums on the set or this could adversely affect the quality of the movie (not to mention prove expensive due to delays). Usually you would do so by making sure they pay a visit to the bar or restaurant beforehand (but don't make this too often or else they may get addicted and a visit to the Rehab Centre is in order)!

When the last scene is finally shot, your movie is then ready to be released to the world! Keep an eye on movie critic reviews to gauge what can be improved next time you make a film if you want to ensure your studio isn't making B-grade movies indefinitely!

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Alternate Titles

"电影" -- Chinese title (simplified)
"The Movies: Фабрика грез" -- Russian spelling

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Merchant	Title	Platform
	Movies (the)	Windows
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User Reviews

Lights, Camera, Action!	MasterMegid (899)
the movies, a unique gem set to be put down by mere-sighted fat cats	phil buckley (22)

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The Press Says

GotNext	Jan 23, 2006		90
PC Powerplay	Dec, 2005	88 out of 100	88
PC Action	Dec 07, 2005	84 out of 100	84
GameSpot	Nov 08, 2005	8.2 out of 10	82
PIB (Programmer In Black)	Jul 06, 2006		80
UOL Jogos	Dec 01, 2005		80
Video Game Talk	Dec 21, 2005		80
Game Revolution	Dec 16, 2005	B	75
Strategy Informer	Nov 14, 2005	7.3 out of 10	73
Playfuls	Dec 16, 2005	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Cancelled ports

A console version was announced, but later cancelled after the disappointing sales of the PC release.

Music

Many of the decade-specific songs that can be heard and used in the game are thinly-disguised imitations of actual songs released throughout history. During the 60s and 70s some music sounds very similar to Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child and in the 80s one may recognize the theme to Terminator.

References

There are some interesting references in the set decor in The Movies. On the "Shabby Hotel" set, a picture of a girl on the beach can be seen. This is the same picture that haunted Barton Fink in Joel and Ethan Coen's film of the same name. On the "Living Room" set, there is a picture on the wall depicting the wedding scene from Fable.