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
Beyond big screen appearances in films like Dude, Where's My Car?
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Jan. 2026
Lisa Johnson Super Cocina, City Heights Great, fresh food with a neighborhood clientele and a big screen TV with cool banda and regional Mexican music playing inside.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
On Beaches, fear of Garry Marshall's big screen close-up of my hands on the piano cured me of nail-biting, and now Rob stopped my pot-smoking — all my bad habits were eradicated by America’s leading comedy film directors.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
Belly, Conrad and Jeremiah's big screen debut isn't happening quite yet.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Jan. 2026
Lisa Johnson Super Cocina, City Heights Great, fresh food with a neighborhood clientele and a big screen TV with cool banda and regional Mexican music playing inside.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
On Beaches, fear of Garry Marshall's big screen close-up of my hands on the piano cured me of nail-biting, and now Rob stopped my pot-smoking — all my bad habits were eradicated by America’s leading comedy film directors.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
Belly, Conrad and Jeremiah's big screen debut isn't happening quite yet.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for big screen
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The researchers also observed superconductivity in flexible films made from niobium carbide nanoscrolls.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Jan. 2026
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Common items include notebooks or journals, paperback books or magazines, film cameras and crosswords.—
Avery Newmark,
AJC.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Other features include a Game mode, which reduces latency so that the audio of games or movies are always synchronized with the video.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The grueling K-pop machine Ironically, the movie that made Ejae a star is an ode to the Korean pop music machine that disillusioned her all those years ago.—
Allison Cho,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Both of these sections suffer from flat filmmaking that relies on drama that’s largely told, rather than felt.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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That said, international filmmaking is in feeble shape, partly because of the jambalaya of international co-productions, partly because of the inroads of television aesthetics, and partly because of the cloistered aestheticism of self-conscious art-house cinema.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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As for their personal relationship, Cassini and Kelly were engaged following his divorce from fellow silver screen legend Gene Tierney in 1953.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
18 Jan. 2026
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Golden Globes hair 2026 channeled silver screen elegance with movie star bobs, sculptural waves, and vintage styles owning the night.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
12 Jan. 2026
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There’s been a couple of fun AI pictures.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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Posters of rock bands were replaced with pictures of Serbian saints and stately World War I generals.—
Aleksandar Hemon,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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