silver screen

as in film
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 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for silver screen
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Noun
  • Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Deadline, however, projects a stronger international take for A Minecraft Movie and is pegging the film to open with $140 million in global ticket sales.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Each episode in Season 3 has felt like a movie, with many stretching out to 70+ minutes.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The star of cultural touchstones such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, among other movies and specials, has inspired graduates before.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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 15 Apr. 2025.

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