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four-wall en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to the rental of a cinema or theater for a fixed fee rather than a portion of the box office revenue.
    • […] since the typical four-wall arrangement allows the theater to keep all the money made on concessions. 2012, Thomas A. Crowell, The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers, page 311:
    • He did, however, successfully secure a four-wall distribution deal—a process by which a studio rents a movie theater for a period of time and receives all of the box office revenue—with Laemmle Theaters. 2014, Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist, page 263:
    • When the theatre is a four-wall rental (i.e., the only thing the theatre provides in the rental agreement is the four walls), most lighting designers first carefully check the tech specs to see exactly what, if anything, may be useful or available for the show. 2013, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 157:

Relateds

four-walling · four-waller