summer movie
Warm-weather theater release
A summer movie is a big-budget film released during the warm months when school is out and audiences flock to theaters.
Studios save their most commercially promising blockbusters—action spectacles, superhero franchises, family comedies—for this peak season: The summer movie lineup looks stacked this year.
The term carries connotations of popcorn entertainment over artistic ambition.
- blockbusterEnormously successful entertainment property
- box officeTicket sales revenue
- popcornHeated grain that puffs
- sequelContinuation of prior work
- big screenTheater projection surface
action · action hero · superhero · explosion · special effects · beach · vacation · tent-pole · premiere · CGI · post-credits scene · franchise · theater · air-conditioning · escape · soundtrack · trailer · July
- box officebox office, gross, worldwide gross, opening weekend, ticket sales
- blockbustersAvengers, Harry Potter, Finding Nemo, The Dark Knight, Spider-Man
- star vehiclesstar turn, vanity project, one-man show, one-woman show, biopic
summer movieprestige film
Movie aiming for awards
Oscar bait · art film · prestige drama · character study · festival film
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