movie jail
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A state of derailment of a career or limited opportunities to which a film industry professional is seemingly relegated, usually as a result of making an unsuccessful film.
Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""They have this term in Hollywood, movie jail. When a director does this horrible movie that fails, he's in movie jail, where they're not letting him make another movie again.""
- "2016, June 10, "10 Actors Who Got Sent to Movie Jail", Screen Rant."
- "2019, April 15, Gabe Worgaftik, AV Club. "Movie jail is real. He's been there. He was excommunicated at Fox for a decade after turning down Speed 2 to go play Hamlet onstage in fucking Winnipeg.""