Blockbusterize

"Blockbusterize" in a Sentence (4 examples)

The author agreed to adapt his story into a movie on the condition that the plot wouldn't be blockbusterized.

[Michael] Bay further exacerbates the problem by blockbusterizing his directorial pronouncements. For him, a characteristic boast is not, "I write all my own movies," but, "I write all my own action."

Over time, a who's who of six-figure screenwriters tried to blockbusterize the story, which was now being set in Venice: Jeffrey Nachmanoff (The Day After Tomorrow), William Wheeler (The Hoax), Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park), and Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) turned in one promising draft after another.

Resisting the pressure to blockbusterize Botticelli, this exhibition is true to the material (which is limited in quantity; fewer than three dozen of the artist's drawings are known to survive) and to Botticelli's quirks (which are manifold).

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