nontheatrical
adjective
non·the·at·ri·cal
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Definition of nontheatrical
1
: not theatrical : not of or relating to the theater or the presentation of plays
a nontheatrical concert performance
2
: not intended for or involving performance in a motion-picture theater
nontheatrical educational films a movie made for nontheatrical distribution the nontheatrical market
Examples of nontheatrical in a Sentence
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And as for the five subsequent movies, Fox has theatrical, nontheatrical, and home video rights worldwide through May 2020. — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, "Could Disney finally give us the remastered, unedited Star Wars we want?," 6 Nov. 2017 But DreamWorks could never escape investor impatience with its rocky box-office returns, and the studio was too small for its nontheatrical department to pick up the slack. — Erich Schwartzel, WSJ, "Trolls Everywhere: NBCUniversal Aims to Use Parent Comcast’s Reach to Spawn a Franchise," 10 Oct. 2017 Still, there’s already a long history of movies being cleaned up for nontheatrical viewers; the difference now is that viewers will be able to purchase them directly from Sony—albeit as bonus material. — Laura Bradley, HWD, "Judd Apatow Tells Sony Where It Can “Shove” Its Sanitized Film Initiative," 13 June 2017 Still, there’s already a long history of movies being cleaned up for nontheatrical viewers; the difference now is that viewers will be able to purchase them directly from Sony—albeit as bonus material. — Laura Bradley, vanityfair.com, "Judd Apatow Tells Sony Where It Can “Shove” Its Sanitized Film Initiative," 13 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nontheatrical.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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