How to Use big-budget in a Sentence

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  • There wasn’t any one thing that caused the exodus of big-budget films.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
  • In recent years, big-budget games have been known to take up to half a decade or more to create.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Or even big-budget films along the lines of Black Panther?
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Christopher Nolan will soon launch a big-budget riff on Homer’s epic.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Part Two to restore your faith in big-budget, big-screen moviegoing.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Feb. 2024
  • More than its relationship to its big-budget cousin would imply as well.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • That isn’t to say that big-budget franchise films are going away completely.
    Kelenna Onukwugha, Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2026
  • For the second time in as many years, two big-budget movies with major fanfare will premiere on the same date.
    Maxwell Millington, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Make a wider variety of movies, not just big-budget spectacles.
    Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The British star starred in Man of Steel, the next big-screen, big-budget reboot.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 11 July 2025
  • But big-budget action films have mostly fallen out of favor at the box office.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s a very big-budget sci-fi series that has already been renewed for a second season.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Do your memories from your smaller projects recur more often than the big-budget work?
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025
  • That's just the beginning of their story, which will be told over two big-budget musical films.
    Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
  • But that's just the beginning of their story, which will be told over two big-budget musical films.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • To mount a big-budget musical around Tevye was deemed a risky proposition.
    Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • When Jim learned this would be a big-budget Hollywood film, he was concerned.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Her specialty is high-quality big-budget films that feed the studio beast.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The big-budget fantasy drama is based on the popular video game franchise of the same name.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
  • Ho also found this approach a welcome break from developing a big-budget sci-fi project.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2025
  • During my tests, last year’s Steam Deck battery would last up to three hours for modern, big-budget games.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The high-end of the market, those producing big-budget drama series, have been hardest hit.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023
  • These are just a few of Lynch’s achievements in a body of work that spanned big-budget and micro-budget, highbrow and low.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But a certain blonde bombshell can’t erase the complete collapse of four big-budget DC movies.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Not to mention, the marketing costs of big-budget films can be prohibitive.
    Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Other big-budget tech pitches are leaning on star power and spectacle.
    Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There is a line that tends to get trotted out whenever some big-budget, high-profile piece of IP flops hard.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Still missing from the top 10 is Prime Video’s big-budget spy series Citadel.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • There’s something else about these Disney remakes that sets them apart even from a lot of other current big-budget movie projects.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Ever since, Hollywood has leaned on the summer as the season to schedule big-budget event films.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 11 Aug. 2023

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