Release Print
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| In one sentence | A copy of the finished movie made from the approved answer print, used to actually show the film in theaters. |
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| Category | Film and Television |
| Related | Answer Print, Exhibitor |
Once an Answer Print is approved as the correct model version of a movie, plenty of matching copies need to be made to actually show it everywhere at once. Those copies are called release prints, and they are what an Exhibitor, like a movie theater, actually receives and plays for an audience.
Fun facts
- In the era of physical film, hundreds or even thousands of release prints might be struck from a single approved answer print, for theaters all over the world.
- Today, many theaters show movies digitally instead of on physical film, so a "release print" is now often a digital file rather than an actual strip of film.
- Making and shipping release prints used to be a major cost, part of what the "prints" in Prints and Advertising originally referred to.