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- The term fell out of usage in the aftermath of World War II but was revived in 1948 by Variety in an article about big budget films. By the early 1950s the term had become standardised within the film industry and the trade press to denote a film that was large in spectacle, scale and cost, that would go on to achieve a high gross.
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Feb 7, 2020 · The word first appeared in the pages of TIME in a Nov. 29, 1942, article on the Allied bombing of key industrial targets in fascist Italy; the bombs used for such missions were called...
Apr 9, 2018 · In the early 1940s, American journalists and cinema critics started using the term as a description for films that broke ground and appealed to both the audiences and the critics of the time. Nowadays, the meaning of the term is somewhat ambiguous.
A blockbuster is a work of entertainment—typically used to describe a feature film produced by a major film studio, but also other media—that is highly popular and financially successful.
Jul 16, 2023 · The term's origin story is no Hollywood tale; it came from the American military, the name of a devastating World War II bomb. Acland said, "The blockbuster was initially the...
Aug 3, 2018 · A 1954 issue of Film Bulletin offers a theory as to how the movie-centric meaning of “blockbuster” came about, according to Ammon Shea, a writer known for his work on the English language.
May 3, 2024 · The magazine first printed the word in a November 29, 1942, article about an Allied bombing in Italy; the nickname came from the weapon’s ability to decimate entire city blocks.
Originally the word was used to describe large bombs dropped during World War II that could quite literally destroy an entire city block, or a "blockbuster bomb". The origins of the term when it comes to film, according to Wikipedia: In film, a number of terms were used to describe a hit.
