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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
Expect a drop dead gorgeous, talented cast, complete with beautiful scoring and choreography that is silver screen worthy.
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Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The film is emblematic of the Swinging London cultural era, and notable for featuring the first silver screen appearance of Jane Birkin.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2025
One longtime and renowned Newport Beach resident, silver screen icon John Wayne, helped turn a gulch in the Upper Newport Bay into a private tennis club, initially called the John Wayne Tennis Club, now known as Palisades Tennis Club.
—Richard Dunn, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
Lopez plays Ingrid Luna/the Spider Woman, a fictional silver screen diva who brings dazzling technicolor into the bleak life of prisoner Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency.
—Mekishana Pierre Updated, EW.com, 5 June 2025
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Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The film is emblematic of the Swinging London cultural era, and notable for featuring the first silver screen appearance of Jane Birkin.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2025
One longtime and renowned Newport Beach resident, silver screen icon John Wayne, helped turn a gulch in the Upper Newport Bay into a private tennis club, initially called the John Wayne Tennis Club, now known as Palisades Tennis Club.
—Richard Dunn, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
Lopez plays Ingrid Luna/the Spider Woman, a fictional silver screen diva who brings dazzling technicolor into the bleak life of prisoner Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency.
—Mekishana Pierre Updated, EW.com, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver screen
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The coverage Jaden Hicks isn’t going to enjoy the film.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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In fact, it could be said that few creative mediums go together quite like fashion and film.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
6 Sep. 2025
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The books-to-movies pipeline is littered with stories of adaptations gone wrong.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Zelensky doesn't want to go through the same movie again.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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With its mix of full-length features, short films and documentaries from at home and abroad, the schedule speaks to the breadth and depth of Black filmmaking internationally.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Despite a 2010 ban on filmmaking, media appearances and travel, Panahi continued working in secret.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
30 Aug. 2025
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The best way to watch any sort of network programming for free on a big screen is with a good HD antenna.—
Chris Morris,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Baker highlighted big screen debutant Shih-Yuan Ma, for her performance as the rebellious, troubled older daughter I-Ann.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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