director's cut
noun
: a version of a movie that is edited according to the director's wishes and that usually includes scenes cut from the version created for general distribution
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The petition cited the 2018 release of Arrested Development season 4 remix and the extended director's cut of the Bollywood film Jawan (which was released in November 2023) as examples to justify the release of these scenes.
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Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
Kelly released a director's cut in 2004 that expounded (poorly) on the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of his fictional world in greater detail, involving the spontaneous creation of an unstable Tangent Universe in which the film's events play out.
—Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
The company even trotted out game developer legend Hideo Kojima at WWDC 2023 to announce that a director's cut of his company's 2019 game Death Stranding is coming to the Mac.
—Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 6 June 2023
Of course, one of his most recent and well-known roles is taking on the mantle of DC’s Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, and both versions of Justice League (including Zack Snyder's four-hour-long director's cut).
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Apr. 2023
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Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
Kelly released a director's cut in 2004 that expounded (poorly) on the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of his fictional world in greater detail, involving the spontaneous creation of an unstable Tangent Universe in which the film's events play out.
—Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
The company even trotted out game developer legend Hideo Kojima at WWDC 2023 to announce that a director's cut of his company's 2019 game Death Stranding is coming to the Mac.
—Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 6 June 2023
Of course, one of his most recent and well-known roles is taking on the mantle of DC’s Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, and both versions of Justice League (including Zack Snyder's four-hour-long director's cut).
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 Apr. 2023
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