block booking
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of block booking
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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"I think between the various teams and the fact we're now block booking for Sundays, we're going to be hitting almost £10,000 this year," said Mr Hedges.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023
And when a major venue announces its next block booking, what do we call it?
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022
The Supreme Court outlawed block booking in 1948’s United States v.
From Slate • Jul. 14, 2017
One of the key techniques of the studios, and the one that eventually brought them down, was called "block booking" - selling films to theatres in a bundle.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2013
Three months ago, as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard signed a petition to President Roosevelt asking that the cinema code include restrictions on block booking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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