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
This is your chance to bring home a big screen at a small price.
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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
In addition to the forthcoming Train Dreams, which premiered at Sundance this January, this year’s festival circuit brings a few more unlikely candidates for big screen treatment.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Her last big screen appearance was in Ridha Behi’s 2022 Italian-Tunisian drama The Island of Forgiveness.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
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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
In addition to the forthcoming Train Dreams, which premiered at Sundance this January, this year’s festival circuit brings a few more unlikely candidates for big screen treatment.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Her last big screen appearance was in Ridha Behi’s 2022 Italian-Tunisian drama The Island of Forgiveness.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for big screen
Noun
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If only the music were able to keep pace with the dynamism of the film’s visual design.—
Kambole Campbell,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025
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Sinners and Wicked were also included in the best score soundtrack for visual media category, which includes film and television, where the music from those films will compete against How To Train Your Dragon, Severance and The Wild Robot.—
Katherine Schaffstall,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Pointing his finger at me, Tommy laid out the next fifty years of my movie business existence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, who envisioned the city, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil hosts art exhibitions, international movies, and other events.—
Greyson Ferguson,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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The main culprit is Towne’s way-too-precious filmmaking, but Farrell’s performance also offers little in the way of surprise or inspiration.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Great political filmmakers, by confronting not only the complacencies of popular political filmmaking but the doctrinal comfort zone of the art-house audience, revitalize their own art.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
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The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Lopez).—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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In prison, Molina uses his imagination to retreat into the comfort of his favorite movie, starring fictitious silver screen diva Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez, to get through the horrors of Argentina’s repressive regime.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
9 Oct. 2025
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The video showed dozens of videos and pictures sent to her, all featuring people eating McDonald's fries as a show of solidarity.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Go through a corn maze, sip on apple cider, and take silly pictures with the cardboard cutouts.—
Kylie Petty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
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