as in film
the art or business of making a movie
many actors now take roles for both television and the big screen
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Recent Examples of big screen
Mickey 17 Release Date: March 7, 2025 Bong Joon Ho's first film since winning Best Picture with Parasite in 2020 is finally making its big screen debut after multiple delays.
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Billie Melissa, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
The 1994 big screen version of Farewell My Concubine, adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name, starred the late Leslie Chung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.
—Lawrence Yee, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
National awards crisis averted: Jared Leto found his missing Oscar
Masters of the Universe is notable as a big screen superhero story that isn't derived from Marvel or DC intellectual property.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
Lionsgate’s Trey Edward Shults directed and written suspense thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow starring The Weeknd in his big screen debut, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, is getting a release date of May 16.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
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Billie Melissa, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
The 1994 big screen version of Farewell My Concubine, adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name, starred the late Leslie Chung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.
—Lawrence Yee, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
National awards crisis averted: Jared Leto found his missing Oscar
Masters of the Universe is notable as a big screen superhero story that isn't derived from Marvel or DC intellectual property.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
Lionsgate’s Trey Edward Shults directed and written suspense thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow starring The Weeknd in his big screen debut, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, is getting a release date of May 16.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for big screen
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The cable category also saw an 18% bump in feature film viewing (after a 14% increase in November).—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2025
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As a division of Amazon, IMDb has branched out and has further integrated itself into its parent company’s Prime Video service with its X-Ray feature, which shows the cast and credits of talent in a film or show when the title is paused.—
Erik Hayden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
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Read more: The Human Cost of Binge-Watching True Crime Series Shackleton also steps back to reveal how his movie might have adhered to the tropes of the true crime genre.—
Esther Zuckerman,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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There are lots of great opportunities to dine; there are lots of awesome spaces on the boat; there’s shopping, there’s movies.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Jan. 2025
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At a glance, there was nothing special about the Burbank location of the Bob’s Big Boy chain, but over the course of seven years and several decades of filmmaking, Mr. Lynch had demonstrated that illuminating something ordinary could give it meaning and reveal its mysteries.—
Tejal Rao,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Negative space is the great underused resource in filmmaking.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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To escape the horrors of his imprisonment, Molina imagines movies starring Aurora as a classic silver screen diva, which includes the role of the spider woman, who kills her prey with a kiss.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
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Even the lounge noir aesthetic of those scenes—blood-red drapes, geometric flooring, tragic women done up like silver screen idols—has seeped into musicians’ visual lexicon.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025
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