rerelease
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of rerelease
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Lionsgate has changed the actor’s hand placement on the poster for “La La Land” as the studio prepares to rerelease the Academy Award-winning musical to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
With his back against the wall, Walt decided to rerelease “Snow White” in theaters, seven years after its 1937 debut—hoping to generate income without incurring new production expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
That’s how she wound up pitching a “Taylor’s Version”-style rerelease of her backlist to a handful of desired publishers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
It’s also far behind the rerelease of 2016’s “Shin Godzilla,” a kaiju movie that’s mostly about the horrors of government bureaucracy.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2025
The timing couldn’t be better for Apple Corps to rerelease the Beatles’ American LPs.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
And yet it’s getting more love today than ever: It was rereleased in theaters earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
After being out of print for decades, the author’s third novel, Survivor, has just been rereleased.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Bigelow, a Greenwich Village pharmacy that made the plastic headbands Bessette was so fond of, reported a 500% sales increase since 2023, and Selima Optique have rereleased the style Bessette wore because of popular demand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
It has been rereleased this year, reigniting a debate around its portrayal of Africa and the role of UK charities.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2024
The single has been released on so many compilation albums and has been rereleased many times, so it’s just amazing how little impact it ever makes.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2015
Does it have anything to do with … you know … a certain musician rereleasing one of her most popular albums, with a title referencing the year she was born?
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
"My agency computed that I would accrue, conservatively, $400,000 if I did the novelization. In contrast, if we went the route of rereleasing the original novel, I would make about $12,500."
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2022
And the distaste for shooting Bambi runs so deep that some communities prefer to spend significant money and resources capturing, sterilizing and rereleasing their deer — a strategy that doesn’t seem to work.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
In Japan, they put out the score, and now that we’re rereleasing the film and have a beautiful new master and transfer, it just seemed like, “Why don’t we put out that score?”
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2020
Elton John is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his career-making performances at the Troubadour in West Hollywood by rereleasing a limited edition of his self-titled album from 1970, which is also celebrating its golden anniversary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
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