world premiere

noun

: the first regular performance (as of a theatrical production) anywhere in the world

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The pic gets its world premiere at the AFM alongside a slate of other titles from Anatomica, with Stelly and his team searching for domestic and international sales partners. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025 The film, which had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in August, also stars Aidan Delbis and Stavros Halkias, and was directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025 As for Sundance’s main slate of world premiere films, the festival is still heads down screening some half a dozen movies a day ahead of lineup announcements later this fall. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025 Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers, writer-director Dylan Southern’s big-screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which just screened at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) after its world premiere at Sundance. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for world premiere

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of world premiere was in 1910

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“World premiere.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/world%20premiere. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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