Definition of "rerelease" [rerelease]

• To release (a movie, for example) again. (verb-transitive)

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• "Or perhaps I was just bamboozled by the Giorgio Moroder techno score that accompanied the film's 1980s rerelease, which is replaced here by lush orchestration."
• "But I will be showing on the rerelease, which is coming out this fall."
• "The impetus for a rerelease is the feeling that, even though "Avatar" is the highest-grossing movie of all time, producers could have raked in even more money had they been able to hold on to the digital and Imax 3D screens that were lost when Disney opened"