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the art or business of making a movie
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Recent Examples of silver screen
In her recent book, An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour, actor Nancy Olsen Livingston opined on the personal tribulations that the former silver screen heroine may have endured in her longest starring role as that of Rainier III’s spouse.
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Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025
Salvaging silver screens: As local movie houses close, residents in smaller U.S. towns are forming nonprofits to save them.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
But now in the 21st century, the unnamed narrator mourns, cinema is less about how to see than what to see, as viewers now rely on personal screens much more than on silver screens for their viewing pleasure.
—The Know, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025
Steven Spielberg paid upwards of half a million dollars each for two awards formerly belonging to silver screen icons Clark Gable and Bette Davis.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025
Salvaging silver screens: As local movie houses close, residents in smaller U.S. towns are forming nonprofits to save them.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
But now in the 21st century, the unnamed narrator mourns, cinema is less about how to see than what to see, as viewers now rely on personal screens much more than on silver screens for their viewing pleasure.
—The Know, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025
Steven Spielberg paid upwards of half a million dollars each for two awards formerly belonging to silver screen icons Clark Gable and Bette Davis.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver screen
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On Monday morning, CBS Mornings host Gayle King, pop star Katy Perry, journalist Lauren Sánchez, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and film producer Kerianne Flynn traveled to space.—
Sara Vallone,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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Versions of these battles were playing out at the U: a Latino student group, Mecha, blocked the entrance to a film screening about transgender kids who had detransitioned, hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Talkies—movies with synchronized sound, introduced in the late nineteen-twenties—were a setback.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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His family retained their love for Italian culture, and Bergoglio grew up listening to opera and watching every Italian movie that came to town.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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In a win for independent cinema and the future of filmmaking, six projects have been unveiled today as part of Antigravity Academy‘s flagship incubator, the Antigravity Academy Screenwriters Camp.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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Created and directed by a British actor Stephen Graham, the four-part series is reminiscent of ’60s-era documentary filmmaking.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The film, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s big screen take on the popular video game, has obliterated expectations by opening to $163 million domestically and $313 million globally.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
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There’s also a new big screen in the right field, which really emphasizes the fact that there are no seats out there.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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