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
Cheers erupted from the crowd as images of the first hostages being released appeared on a big screen along with interviews of the hostages’ mothers and other family members.
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Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
This is your chance to bring home a big screen at a small price.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Walt Disney Studios has nabbed the adaptation rights to Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures fantasy book series for big screen treatments.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Cardinale made her big screen debut in the 1958 film Goha, starring Omar Sharif, and never looked back.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
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Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
This is your chance to bring home a big screen at a small price.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Walt Disney Studios has nabbed the adaptation rights to Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures fantasy book series for big screen treatments.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Cardinale made her big screen debut in the 1958 film Goha, starring Omar Sharif, and never looked back.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for big screen
Noun
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The series originally aired for six seasons and included two feature films.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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The 2026 Golden Globes are tonight — the first major award show of the year to honor standouts in film and television.—
Jordan Freiman,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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This opening scene establishes a human, forgiving tone for a movie in which we are often encouraged to laugh with our heroes but never at them.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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In 2014, the actress won another SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor for playing attorney Linda Kenney Baden opposite Al Pacino in David Mamet's 2013 TV movie Phil Spector.—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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From the cast to their longtime collaborators, everyone welcomed me with remarkable generosity, openly sharing their personal and collective experiences from a decade of creative filmmaking.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Jan. 2026
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Simmering with tension that leads to an explosive finale, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is an essential piece of political filmmaking that earned an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Dec. 2025
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Ahead, learn about the 17 outfits that made this silver screen siren a fashion icon for the ages.—
Kevin Huynh,
InStyle,
10 Jan. 2026
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Laura Dern assumed the shawl in the 2019 silver screen adaptation previously worn by Susan Sarandon and Mary Astor.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
28 Dec. 2025
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For the rest of her images, Kardashian modeled the see-through lace dress in various parts of the island paradise, also including some pictures that were just part of the scenery.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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Like William Klein’s pictures, Roversi’s incorporate accidents, light flares, blur, even damage.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Big screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/big%20screen. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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