Blockbuster or Block Buster may refer to:
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Blockbuster (entertainment)
A blockbuster is a work of entertainment—typically used to describe a feature film produced by a major film studio, but also other media—that is highly popular and financially successful. The term has also come to refer to any large-budget p ...
a term coined for an extremely successful movie, from which most other uses are derived.
Corporations
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Blockbuster (retailer)
Blockbuster LLC, formerly known as Blockbuster Video, was an American-based provider of home video and video game rental services. Services were offered primarily at video rental shops, but later alternatives included DVD-by-mail, streaming med ...
, a defunct video and game rental chain
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Blockbuster (Bend, Oregon), the only remaining store of the defunct rental chain
Arts and entertainment
Comics
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Blockbuster (DC Comics)
Blockbuster is the name of four supervillains and a criminal organization appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first one was primarily a foe of Batman and Robin, while the second was the archenemy to Nightwing. The latest v ...
, the name of four DC Comics characters
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Blockbuster (Man-Brute), a Marvel Comics character introduced in 1970
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Blockbuster (Marauder)
Blockbuster (Michael Baer) is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Chris Claremont and Michael Golden and his first appearance was in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #210 ...
, a Marvel Comics character introduced in 1986
Music
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''Blockbuster'' (album), a 2012 album by Block B
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Block Buster!", a 1973 song by Sweet
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"Blockbuster" (Enhypen song), a song by Enhypen from the 2021 album ''Dimension: Dilemma''
Television and film
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''Blockbuster'' (2018 film), a 2018 Netflix film
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''Blockbusters'' (American game show), an American game show which had two separate runs in the 1980s
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''Blockbusters'' (Australian game show), an Australian children's game show
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''Blockbusters'' (British game show), a British television game show based upon the American game show of the same name
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''Blockbuster'' (TV series), a 2022 Netflix series
* "Block Buster", an
episode of the sitcom ''The King of Queens''
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Block Busters
''Block Busters'' is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Wallace Fox and starring the East Side Kids.
Plot
After an afternoon of playing baseball, Muggs McGinnis and the East Side Kids gang arrive at the door of their clubhouse, where a man ...
'', a 1944 American comedy film
Other arts and entertainment
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''Blockbuster'' (book), a 2004 book by Tom Shone
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''Block Buster'' (Microvision), a 1979 Microvision video game
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Blockbuster (podcast)
''Blockbuster'' is a 2019 original dramatic podcast created by Matt Schrader detailing the friendship and rise of early Steven Spielberg and George Lucas in 1970s Hollywood.
The series is structured like a biopic film in the years before S ...
'', a 2019 podcast dramatizing the friendship between movie directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
* Blockbuster, a wrestling move also known as a
somersault neckbreaker
Military
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Blockbuster bomb, a series of WWII-era air dropped bombs large enough to demolish a city block
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Operation Blockbuster
Operation Blockbuster was the completion of the larger Operation Veritable by the First Canadian Army, reinforced by the XXX Corps from the British Second Army from late February to early March, 1945. Veritable had been slower and more costly ...
", an Anglo-Canadian military operation in the Netherlands during World War II
Music
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''Blockbuster'' (album), a 2012 album by Block B
* "BlockBuster", a 2019 song by
Dongkiz
* "
Block Buster!", a 1973 song by The Sweet
* "Blockbuster", a 1989 song by The Jesus Lizard on their debut ''
Pure
Pure may refer to:
Computing
* A pure function
* A pure virtual function
* PureSystems, a family of computer systems introduced by IBM in 2012
* Pure Software, a company founded in 1991 by Reed Hastings to support the Purify tool
* Pure-FTPd, ...
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Other
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''Blockbuster'' (book), by Tom Shone
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Blockbuster drug, a drug generating more than $1 billion of revenue for its owner each year
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Splitting maul, or block buster, a type of axe
See also
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Blockbuster Pavilion (disambiguation) Blockbuster Pavilion can refer to:
*Blockbuster Pavilion Charlotte, later Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre and PNC Music Pavilion, in Charlotte, North Carolina
*Blockbuster Pavilion San Bernardino
The Glen Helen Amphitheater (originally Blockbuster ...
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Block (disambiguation)
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Blockbusting (disambiguation)
Blockbusting
Blockbusting was a business practice in the United States in which real estate agents and building developers convinced white residents in a particular area to sell their property at below-market prices. This was achieved by fearm ...
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