Blockbuster or Block Buster may refer to:
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Blockbuster (entertainment) a term coined for an extremely successful movie, from which most other uses are derived.
Corporations
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Blockbuster (retailer), a defunct video and game rental chain
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Blockbuster (Bend, Oregon)
Blockbuster (colloquially known as The Last Blockbuster) is a video rental store in Bend, Oregon. In 2019, it became the world's last remaining retail store using the Blockbuster brand.
History
Located at the intersection of U.S. Route 20 ...
, 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 lates ...
, the name of four DC Comics characters
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Blockbuster (Man-Brute)
Nakia Bahadir
Nakia Bahadir is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a Turkish girl and friend of Kamala Khan.
Nakia Bahadir in other media
Nakia Bahadir appears in ''Ms. Marvel (TV series), ...
, a Marvel Comics character introduced in 1970
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Blockbuster (Marauder), 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!
"Block Buster!" (also sometimes listed as "Blockbuster!") is a 1973 single by Sweet. Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and produced by Phil Wainman, "Block Buster!" was the band's sole UK No. 1 hit. Released in January 1973, it spent five ...
", 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)'', 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 blockbuster bomb or cookie was one of several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term ''blockbuster'' was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explo ...
, 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!
"Block Buster!" (also sometimes listed as "Blockbuster!") is a 1973 single by Sweet. Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and produced by Phil Wainman, "Block Buster!" was the band's sole UK No. 1 hit. Released in January 1973, it spent five ...
", 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, F ...
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Other
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''Blockbuster'' (book), by Tom Shone
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Blockbuster drug
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and rel ...
, a drug generating more than $1 billion of revenue for its owner each year
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Splitting maul
A splitting maul also known as a ''block buster'', ''block splitter'', ''chop and maul'', ''sledge axe'', ''go-devil'' or ''hamaxe'' is a heavy, long-handled axe used for splitting a piece of wood along its grain. One side of its head is like a ...
, or block buster, a type of axe
See also
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Blockbuster Pavilion (disambiguation)
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Block (disambiguation)
Block or blocked may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Broadcasting
* Block programming, the result of a programming strategy in broadcasting
* W242BX, a radio station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, United States known as ''96.3 ...
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Blockbusting (disambiguation)
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