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noun ADJ. good, great, wonderful | classic, cult | blockbuster/blockbusting, hit, smash-hit, successful | big, big-budget, top | low-budget | television/TV | home We watched a home movie of my second birthday party. | in-flight | silent | action, disaster, gangster, horror, war, etc. | blue, dirty, porn/porno VERB + MOVIE see, watch | go to (see), take sb to (see) I'd never go to a movie alone. | direct, make, produce, shoot MOVIE + VERB be based on sth a movie based on the novel by Betty Munn | be called sth, be entitled sth a movie entitled ‘Short Legs’ | star sb MOVIE + NOUN actor, actress, director, maker, mogul, people, producer, star The former footballer is now mixing with movie people in Hollywood. | audience | fan | premiere | company | business, industry, world | career | channel | score, script | rights the movie rights to her autobigraphy | version the movie version of the well-known novel | camera | poster PREP. ~ about a movie about the life of Castro
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verbs
watch/see a movie
• We watched the movie and ate popcorn.
go to a movie
• How about going to a movie?
take in a movie
American English (= go to see a movie )
• Maybe we could go out to dinner and take in a movie.
appear in/be in a movie
• She’s also appeared in ten movies.
star in a movie
(= play one of the main characters )
• Depp will star in director Tim Burton’s next movie.
a movie stars/features somebody
• a movie starring Will Smith
make/shoot a movie
• The children have made their own movies for the contest.
direct a movie
• He wrote and directed the movie.
show/screen a movie
• What movies are they showing this weekend?
a movie is released
(= becomes available for the public to see )
• The movie has already been released in the US.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + movie
an old movie
• She was watching an old movie on television.
a classic movie
(= an old movie that is very good )
• a scene from the classic movie ‘Casablanca’
a hit movie
(= a successful movie )
• He has directed a string of hit movies.
a cult movie
(= one that a small group of people like very much and watch often )
• a showing of the cult movie ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’
a big-budget/low-budget movie
(= one that cost a lot of money to make, or very little money to make )
• He won a role in a big-budget movie.
movie + NOUN
the movie industry
• How did you get started in the movie industry?
a movie star
• She looked like a movie star.
a movie director
• He and his wife are both movie directors.
a movie producer
• He started out as an actor, then became a movie producer.
a movie premiere
(= the first showing of a movie )
• She wore the dress to a movie premiere.
a movie camera
• Do you know how to operate a movie camera?
a movie screen
• It was strange to see herself up there on the movie screen.
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