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movie deal en · NOUN
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An agreement between a movie production studio and various other stakeholders for the production of a movie, usually based on some source material or other intellectual property created or owned by one or more of the stakeholders.
Adding to her irritation were the continuing rumors that Selznick had taken advantage of her in the movie deal.
2011, Ellen Firsching Brown, John Wiley, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey From Atlanta to Hollywood, page 120:Sandra Bernhard has landed a movie deal with Alive Pictures for a screenplay she co-wrote, titled "It Came From Poland."
1986 October 11, Steve Gett, “On The Beat”, in Billboard, page 26:Consider this, the buzz around the Harry Potter series did not reach a frenzy until the movie deal was announced and the fourth book was published.
2008, Susan Gunelius, Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon, page 149:
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An agreement between a movie production studio and an actor, director, or other person involved in the making of movies, by which that person agrees to participate in the production of a certain number of movies for the studio.
A story had run on the front page of the Hollywood Reporter that Michael Jackson had signed a five year movie deal with Disney.
1993, Lisa D. Campbell, Michael Jackson: The King of Pop, page 289:The agent had arranged a movie deal for Rockne in Hollywood, and at the end of dinner Walsh and Fuller put Rockne in a cab to the train station to catch an overnight to Kansas City, where he would take a morning mail flight to Los Angeles.
2006, Leigh Montville, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, page 306:News that he had signed a movie deal with 20th Century-Fox had broken in the summer of 1943. Although Como's movie deal came earlier than he expected, it was the norm for a successful singer to look to Hollywood as the next step on the career path.
2009, Malcolm MacFarlane, Ken Crossland, Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record, page 35:
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