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the art or business of making a movie
a list of the top 100 stars of the silver screen
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Recent Examples of silver screen
The movie, released in theaters nationwide last month, has raked in $580 million at the global box office since its silver screen debut.
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Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
Related Articles From silver screen star to Monegasque royalty, Kelly is a real-life Cinderella story — and her wardrobe continues to captivate the public.
—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
To escape the horrors of his imprisonment, Molina imagines movies starring Aurora as a classic silver screen diva, including a role of the spider woman, who kills her prey with a kiss.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
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Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
Related Articles From silver screen star to Monegasque royalty, Kelly is a real-life Cinderella story — and her wardrobe continues to captivate the public.
—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
To escape the horrors of his imprisonment, Molina imagines movies starring Aurora as a classic silver screen diva, including a role of the spider woman, who kills her prey with a kiss.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver screen
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The cable category also saw an 18% bump in feature film viewing (after a 14% increase in November).—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2025
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As a division of Amazon, IMDb has branched out and has further integrated itself into its parent company’s Prime Video service with its X-Ray feature, which shows the cast and credits of talent in a film or show when the title is paused.—
Erik Hayden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
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Garner and ex-husband Ben Affleck also appeared together in a trio of movies: 2001’s Pearl Harbor, 2003’s Daredevil, and that movie’s spinoff, Elektra, released in 2005.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Read more: The Human Cost of Binge-Watching True Crime Series Shackleton also steps back to reveal how his movie might have adhered to the tropes of the true crime genre.—
Esther Zuckerman,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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At a glance, there was nothing special about the Burbank location of the Bob’s Big Boy chain, but over the course of seven years and several decades of filmmaking, Mr. Lynch had demonstrated that illuminating something ordinary could give it meaning and reveal its mysteries.—
Tejal Rao,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Negative space is the great underused resource in filmmaking.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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She's been acting even longer, making her big screen debut in 1993 and starring in action, romance, and comedy classics including Maid in Manhattan and Out of Sight.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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The meeting began with one of the Adidas representatives flipping open a laptop and projecting a video onto a big screen.—
Pol Ballús,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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