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.

Examples of the big screen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Howard University alumnus portrayed Black icons Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and James Brown on the big screen. — Lindsay Good, NBC news, 23 July 2026

Deadline caught up with Palloaro as the film was announced for Venice for his first interview on the process behind bring Bertolucci’s unfinished film to the big screen. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 July 2026

But the movies, themselves, on the big screen, are the eternal flames of Ghibli. — ABC News, 23 July 2026

At the height of Marvel’s box-office supremacy, in the late twenty-tens, audiences turned out en masse to see their favorite comic-book characters on the big screen, but not for much else. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 22 July 2026

Rhymes for the big screen

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