The competition in the present world requires using all techniques, tools, and new pure ideas. In the second half of twentieth century, industrial producers of the world faced a new competitive environment which, using half of the capital and facilities required, offered products with better quality, more variety, and lower cost to the world market. One of these new techniques is called lean production. Lean production is in fact a systematic approach which attempts to remove the wastes and eliminate any extra process from the stage of preparing raw materials to production and sale. The present study, considering the production stages of a movie and comparing it with what happens in an industrial production line, intends to identify and discover wastes in the production stages of a movie. Analysis of the results through grounded theory methodology led to development of fifteen concepts and accordingly five main categories. These categories include three types of time waste, repetition, lack of coordination, and two infrastructural and cultural factors in the process of movie production
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