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blockbuster

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A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.

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The word 'blockbuster' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a popular movie, a book, or a product which is popular or successful on a large scale. For example, "The latest Star Wars movie was a huge blockbuster hit".

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"Think of the entrepreneur as Steve Jobs as he develops the iPod, J.K. Rowling as she writes her Harry Potter books, or Steven Spielberg as he directs his blockbuster movies.

If aliens were to land in India today they would be greeted by a bewildering spectacle – while hordes of film buffs gather outside cinemas to see the latest Bollywood blockbuster, an angry mob waves saffron-coloured flags and calls for the arrest of the movie's hero for allegedly defaming Hinduism.

Except for myself, none of them had previously worked in 3D, and for us at Neue Road Movies it was important to "spread the virus" and continue to prove that 3D is a highly artistic new medium that has much more potential that the current applications in blockbuster action movies show.

In summer blockbuster season, the disparity can be even more pronounced: The Inbetweeners 2 opened at the top with a gross 72 times the 10th-placed film that weekend.

Across the UK this weekend, crowds of fans will swarm to the first screenings of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the $250m £165mm) sequel that marks the start of this year's summer blockbuster season.

Big Hero 6 Disney blockbuster with adorable blob thing.

Some years ago I had been hired for a day by Hasbro, the games manufacturers, who were marketing a new, interactive board game based on the popular intergalactic blockbuster.

Galleries which stage blockbuster shows are peddling a myth, and they know it.

And who knows, the tattooed girl that's selling you a book at their kiosk one week might be exhibiting at one of the city's blockbuster museums the next.

While the night saw wins for blockbuster acts including Depeche Mode, Arcade Fire and Jay-Z and Kanye West, many smaller artists were also rewarded, including the Shoes, Is Tropical and Wave Machines.

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Stellar box office figures, sobbing acclaim and – astonishingly – near-blockbuster status in the US, means that Paddington has mutated into a bona fide cinematic hit.

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