the big screen

noun phrase

: movies and the movie industry especially when they are being compared to television

She was a star of the big screen.

The television show was adapted for the big screen.

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The couple is also searching for other scripts to transform for the big screen — particularly stories set in Scotland, where Lowden is from. —

Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024 Godzilla is stomping its way back to the big screen. —

Jordan Moreau, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024 Worse, Wanda fell flat on the big screen in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. —

Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024 Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s masterful 1960 classic, starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, on the big screen at Davies Symphony Hall, as conductor Scott Terrell leads the orchestra in a live performance of Bernard Herrmann’s creepily idiosyncratic score. —

Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the big screen

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