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Blockbuster meaning
A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block. | Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb. | Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
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Liv Tyler (as Grace Stamper): Since playing Grace Stamper in the blockbuster disaster movie, Tyler scored another blockbuster role in the Lord of the Rings franchise, and then reunited with Affleck in Jersey Girl.
A California woman is reminding her neighbors of fond memories associated with Blockbuster Video through a “Free Blockbuster” movie exchange.
The Blockbuster board signed the definitive agreement, but the deal stalled when the LA Times reported a “rumor” that Blockbuster may be forced to file for bankruptcy.
As the last standing location in the world, our BLOCKBUSTER store is an ode to movie magic, simpler times and the sense of community that could once be found in BLOCKBUSTER locations around the world.
Blockbuster Entertainment Inc - known to most as Blockbuster - is an organization whose unfortunate demise was due to their failure to innovate.
However, Blockbuster thought Netflix wasn’t much of a threat at first, and Blockbuster today is a shell of what it once was, with only two stores left.
This is a big, fun blockbuster, but it's also the rare big, fun blockbuster that dares to have a strong point of view and a fresh, exciting personality.
Complete with monstrous lights, lasers and the mandatory ELO spaceship hovering behind the band on video screens, the show was as grand and engrossing as a blockbuster movie — a ’70s blockbuster movie, that is.
The Soldotna Blockbuster store quietly ended its rental business on Sunday, May 13, with the franchise announcing it will be closing the doors on one of the last remaining Blockbuster stores.
Blockbuster and DreamWorks could not agree on a profit-sharing deal, so Blockbuster ordered two-thirds the number of copies it originally intended.
A blockbuster from Henley led to a cover of Dawn, but she kicked out.
After a decades-long career in blockbuster films is delivering his signature "Bayhem" to television.
After became a blockbuster, Hollywood decided that gritty was always good—even if it didn't fit the material (think: Snow White and the Huntsman,movie, and Zack Snyder's dark take on Superman, comics' most hopeful superhero).
After directing two equally massive studio tentpoles with far greater budgets following “Monsters” — 2014’s “: A Star Wars Story” — Edwards became convinced that there had to be a better, leaner way to make studio movies on a blockbuster scale.
After the creative highs of the 1970s under the New Hollywood system, studios turned their eyes towards blockbuster titles and began developing more franchise properties.
Alita: Battle Angel star Christoph Waltz discusses whether he'd reprise the Dr. Dyson Ido role, should the cyberpunk blockbuster lands a sequel.
Almost all computing systems used to power services like ChatGPT - OpenAI's blockbuster generative AI chatbot - use GPUs from Nvidia.
Already this week, the court handed down blockbuster decisions on affirmative action and election law.
Although he had garnered acclaim for his previous works, Shinkai’s first global blockbuster was 2016’s “,” a body-swap romantic fantasy about two teenagers separated by time and space whose fates become intertwined because of an approaching comet.
Amjevita represents the first biosimilar to the blockbuster drug Humira, kicking off what will likely be a firestorm of clones.