four-walling
noun
variants or less commonly four-walls contract
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: an arrangement whereby a motion picture distributor rents a theater for the entire run of a film and keeps all the ticket receipts instead of splitting them with the theater owner
Word History
Etymology
so called from the fact that the distributor takes over the entire theater
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