Making Movies

Making Movies
Studio album by Dire Straits
Released	17 October 1980
Recorded	20 June – 25 August 1980
Studio	Power Station, New York City
Genre	Roots rock
Length	38:17
Label	Vertigo (UK) · Warner Bros. (US) · Mercury (Canada)
Producer	Jimmy Iovine Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits chronology
Communiqué (1979) Making Movies (1980) Love over Gold (1982)
Singles from Making Movies
"Tunnel of Love" Released: 24 October 1980 (EU)[1] "Skateaway" Released: December 1980 (US) "Romeo and Juliet" Released: 9 January 1981

Making Movies is the third studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 17 October 1980 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album includes the single "Romeo and Juliet", which reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as “Tunnel of Love,” featured in the 1982 Richard Gere film An Officer and a Gentleman.

Making Movies reached number one on the album charts in Italy and Norway, number 19 in the United States and number 4 in the United Kingdom. Making Movies was later certified platinum in the United States and double-platinum in the United Kingdom by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) respectively.