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B picture

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Recent Examples of B picture Once upon a time, movie houses were full of all sorts of pictures — big pictures, little pictures, A pictures, B pictures, smart pictures, silly pictures. — Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025 Nevertheless, old movies did creep onto TV through the 1950s, beginning with B pictures on local stations and gradually progressing to A pictures in network prime time. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023 Right now, everything was riding on Dumbo, the studio’s B picture. — Jake S. Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2022

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Noun

At the same time, Lanterns comes with a set of expectations that will never burden Reacher, an extended B movie of a TV series adapted from a potboiler run of airplane novels.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026
Gone would be the days of strolling up to the box office, buying a cheap matinée ticket, and sitting in a mostly empty theatre to watch a B movie with your friends.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 22 July 2026

Definition of B movie

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The low-budget feature will mark Just’s directorial debut, and be the second in the new Dogma25 slate of ambitious arthouse features from producer Zentropa.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
Produced by Emilie Lesclaux and Film at Lincoln Center, it was shot during the 2025 New York Film Festival, where the two directors were presenting their latest features, and grew out of conversations between them.

— Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of feature

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Slater brings more than two decades of experience across film financing, producing, content rights, and worldwide distribution, with his 150 motion picture credits including recent productions The Optimist, Bella, and Lunar Colony.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
After a long, two-decade rise at the studio, Mancuso was, by 1983, president of Paramount’s motion picture division under company chairman Diller and president Eisner.

— Richard Natale, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of motion picture

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The film was nominated in the best short subject category, but lost to Snow Bear.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
The festival begins Friday and continues through Saturday with more than a dozen film selections, both full features and short subjects.

— Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026

Definition of short subject

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The next documentary in Netflix‘s excellent Untold film series will zone in on Love, who scammed women out of money while posing as a wideout with the San Francisco 49ers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
The off-beat documentary about… well, the title says it all, has crossed the $2 million mark 25 days into its run.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of documentary

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