blockbuster
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Gen. Rob Bonta means the blockbuster merger with Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
He told me that a scam artist had once emailed him about a plan to sell sessions in a “wellness/Anti-aging device as introduced in the blockbuster movie ‘Elysium’!”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“A completion of the blockbuster deal would create one of the largest entertainment companies in the world,” the New York Times reported.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
A particularly egregious example that my husband loves to revisit happened after we had just gotten out of an advance screening of “Avengers: Endgame,” the 2019 blockbuster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Imagine a blockbuster movie about a world united in battle against Nazi oppression.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Apted went on to become a big name in Hollywood, directing blockbusters including James Bond's The World Is Not Enough, but he always returned to the show and said it was his most significant achievement.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The film industry rode blockbusters like Spider Man and The Odyssey to a record for domestic ticket sales, Rentrak preliminary data show.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
But while the festival may lack mass-market blockbusters, there is no shortage of larger-than-life subjects, with films about Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and the volatile Gallagher brothers from the Britpop band Oasis on the calendar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Pharmaceutical chiefs are always hunting for drugs to replace expiring blockbusters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The conventional bombs of World War II were called blockbusters.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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