Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To release (a movie, for example) again.
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- verb To
release (a film, video game, etc.) again. - noun A rereleased item.
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Examples
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Or perhaps I was just bamboozled by the Giorgio Moroder techno score that accompanied the film's 1980s rerelease, which is replaced here by lush orchestration.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010
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But I will be showing on the rerelease, which is coming out this fall.
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The impetus for a rerelease is the feeling that, even though "Avatar" is the highest-grossing movie of all time, producers could have raked in even more money had they been able to hold on to the digital and Imax 3D screens that were lost when Disney opened
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Also, I'll pass this along since it was posted today and the music and writing references music and, toward the end, games and the current event of a game rerelease.
GTA IV And The Dark Knight: Films And Games In 2008 SVGL 2009
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Again, there is no reason to assume that every 3D-converted rerelease coming down the pike in the next year will perform like this one, anymore than other nationwide anniversary re-releases were expected to match the astonishing 1997 Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition roll outs HERE for a review of the Star Wars Blu Ray set.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Moneyball Sets Record for Baseball Pic, Comes in Second to Lion King 3D Anyway. Taylor Lautner's Abduction and Statham's Killer Elite Open Low Scott Mendelson 2011
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This song is both funky and flat and the question arises again as to whether KD&L should bother when an alternative way forward would be to just rerelease Fats Domino's back catalogue.
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Blu-ray-promoting rerelease for the historic dinodrama.
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I will be very interested to see how the upcoming wave of very Japanese, "outdated, though updated" games coming to the wii (starting with phantom brave's rerelease and Muramasa, and going through Tales of Graces) does on the wii, especially relative to any counterparts that exist on the other systems.
Wii On The Brain SVGL 2009
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Again, there is no reason to assume that every 3D-converted rerelease coming down the pike in the next year will perform like this one, anymore than other nationwide anniversary re-releases were expected to match the astonishing 1997 Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition roll outs HERE for a review of the Star Wars Blu Ray set.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Moneyball Sets Record for Baseball Pic, Comes in Second to Lion King 3D Anyway. Taylor Lautner's Abduction and Statham's Killer Elite Open Low Scott Mendelson 2011
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Again, there is no reason to assume that every 3D-converted rerelease coming down the pike in the next year will perform like this one, anymore than other nationwide anniversary re-releases were expected to match the astonishing 1997 Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition roll outs HERE for a review of the Star Wars Blu Ray set.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Moneyball Sets Record for Baseball Pic, Comes in Second to Lion King 3D Anyway. Taylor Lautner's Abduction and Statham's Killer Elite Open Low Scott Mendelson 2011
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