The phrase "a modest release" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a product, update, or announcement that is not overly ambitious or significant in scale.
Example: "The company announced a modest release of their new software, focusing on minor improvements rather than major changes."
Alternatives: "a small update" or "a minor launch".
"The Magnificent Ambersons," on the other hand, was given only a modest release and lost $625,000 at the box office, making it a big commercial flop.
Metrodome opted for a modest release for vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows, achieving £64,900 from 33 cinemas, plus £62,800 in previews.
So in May 2000, after a modest release on VHS, Warner Home Video released the first season of "Friends" on DVD in Britain and quickly sold 2.1 million units, Warner Home Video said, an eye-popping number, given that Great Britain is a small market compared to the United States.
Although Drafthouse Films didn't release any films in 2011, Mr. League and his team spent the year building a modest release inventory for 2012, including "Klown," a Danish comedy about a canoe trip gone awry, and "The FP," an action-comedy pastiche of cult fare like "The Warriors".
Directed by Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") and based on a Dave Eggers bestseller, it is a modest release, at least by modern Marvel standards; its story of a dispossessed American sales executive would seem like so many midlife crises pictures of the past few decades.
Decreased Xrn2 or Senataxin levels produced only a modest release from termination.
It is an independent movie that got a fairly modest release, but has won a number of awards.
In this case, RGC loss is most likely due to a hypersensitive response to the modest release of TNFα that is triggered by the injection procedure.
By contrast, Amazon's rather less industrious film division seems to have taken an approach similar to the prestige arm of a major studio: films receive a modest theatrical release followed by a respectful window before being available to stream.
I saw it at a Czech film festival in New York City and was delighted when it got a modest theatrical release.
Mr. Kassovitz was not terribly happy with the modest release being planned for June 29 by Screen Gems, a specialty division of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
