Marvel has a problem with killing off its bankable characters.
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"When hawkers join our system, they become bankable," he said.
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The result can be a heightened, more bankable profile in Hollywood.
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But what is repeatable, even bankable, is Apple's corporate myth-making.
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I mean, Forbes will tell you he's the most bankable [star].
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As a Hollywood actor, he is a highly bankable male lead.
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Unproven ideas are perilous, leading most studios to cling to bankable sequels.
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But he said that some of his campaign pledges were positively bankable.
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Reese Witherspoon is one of Hollywood's best known (and most bankable) stars.
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If not her, there are bankable Latina actors like Salma Hayek & Jennifer Lopez.
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Bankable powerhouse Scarlett Johansson is gathering her superhero family for a good cause.
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But they disappear around 40, whereas male actors remain bankable into their seventies.
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When the viewership ratings rolled in, ordinary faces were made into bankable stars.
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"Land needs to be bankable," says John Robertson, a veteran economist in Harare.
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Mr. Domingo became an opera company's rarely realized dream: an effortlessly bankable star.
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He still has money, a home, a family, and — perhaps eventually — a bankable name.
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In France, "there are few black actors and no bankable actors," Mr. Altmayer said.
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You started to perform standards in 1983, well before that became a bankable trend.
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I don't think it would have been looked at as a movie that's bankable.
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Not saying these are "broken," but they were never truly meant as bankable perennial patterns.
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They don't expect to see an election cycle as bankable as this one again soon.
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Bankable helps its partners meet the technological and regulatory challenges of developing disruptive financial services.
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When the National Women's Hockey League began last year, Knight was its most bankable star.
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Picasso is currently living up to his reputation as the most bankable of modern artists.
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"David Dunn" wasn't exactly bankable in the same way that a "Batman" or "Superman" was.
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Still, the primary revealed that not every newfound assumption about blue-wave politics is bankable.
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But those offering less obviously bankable works may find the febrile geopolitical mood more challenging.
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Since he's the star of a bankable franchise, WALL-E may be beyond The Upshot's budget.
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Who knows—she might even end up getting a highly bankable GoFundMe made in her honor.
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Just a year earlier, films were marked by far less idiosyncratic storytelling, and more bankable stars.
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"She is absolutely a bankable movie star," said Nick Carpou, president of domestic distribution at Universal.
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In April of 2019, Bankable announced a partnership with Visa to accelerate its digital banking solutions.
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In doing so, Kloss shifted her image from runway waif to bankable big name and athlete.
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But Driver's weirdness is not the thing that makes him a bankable, awards-worthy, buzzy success.
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Johnson is one of the most bankable actors whose films have made over $10 billion worldwide.
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Or that Julia Roberts was, in that same period, the most bankable movie star in the world.
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And yet, with a massive running time and no bankable stars, it remained off most viewers' radars.
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In the world of Android handsets, Samsung is the biggest and blusteriest — a bankable, big-budget powerhouse.
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Commentary by Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author ("Bankable Leadership").
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And for a slow, black-and-white, foreign-language film with no bankable names, that's especially impressive.
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" ServiceNow: "I am a big fan and I think that [CEO] Bill McDermott is a bankable guy.
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It also didn't hurt to have Smith, who is one of the box office's most bankable stars.
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John Cena, its greatest bankable star this century, is easing off the throttle on his in-ring career.
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"Many projects are simply not bankable," Mr Beck notes, so few assets can easily be used as collateral.
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I guess my answer to that question is yes, I believe it's possible but a lot less bankable.
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There were no song-and-dance sequences, no lavish weddings, and no bankable superstars whisking away leading ladies.
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Not incidentally, it also helped turn Wu, a relative unknown when the show debuted, into a bankable star.
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He gave us the defining view of French leisure and remains a perpetually bankable subject of museum blockbusters.
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In the 2010s, not even bankable stars, big marketing campaigns or impressive CGI could guarantee box office success.
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The start of the N.F.L. season was a rough one for some of the league's most bankable quarterbacks.
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Still, other core players like Joe Pavelski, Patrick Marleau, Brent Burns and Marc-Edouard Vlasic have proved bankable.
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They've long ago surpassed relatability and have actually parlayed their online fame and lavish lifestyles into bankable success.
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Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson are amazing, bankable actors, but we're more or less certain that they're not Asian.
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In 2019 alone, the company added Anchorage, Bankable, Branch, Finix, Minna Technologies and Paymate to its stable of startups.
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Moreover "little fresh meats" have become bankable ambassadors for all manner of brands hoping to woo young female shoppers.
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It's no Halloween movie, sure, but Tom Hanks has been a bankable name for this successful-until-now series.
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Law enforcement and Federal Reserve officials have expressed concern about the fraud and crime associated with un-bankable cash.
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It might surprise you, but Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wasn't always the most bankable action star in the world.
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He's one of the most bankable superheroes of all time, with his movies grossing nearly $5 billion worldwide combined.
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Despite Sony getting two bankable stars in Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth, the "Men in Black" revival fell flat.
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The challenge, said Amato, is that eggs and sperm don't mature into viable, bankable sex cells until after puberty.
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Rogers This year pop culture really proved how bankable nonwhite story lines and heroes and love stories can be.
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It also made Reynolds a bankable comedy star, and that's one of the major reasons he's starring in Deadpool now.
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Chopra is also a drama-free celebrity, making her a bankable and attractive name to get behind for global brands.
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Through the World Bank-led City Resilience Program, cities will be assisted to structure projects to make them more "bankable".
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Rajinikanth is one of India's most bankable and highest paid actors, with the gangster drama Kabali being his 159th film.
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In a world of cinematic stars, the most bankable clout belongs to those who can make or break movie careers.
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Singers, not directors, sell tickets, the Met is rediscovering, and in the absence of bankable stars its model is doomed.
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Though she figures to be back at full strength in Paris, Halep has been far from bankable at major tournaments.
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Despite the injuries and personal complications of the recent past, Djokovic has remained one of the sport's most bankable athletes.
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Alcoa's chart recently displayed an inverted head-and-shoulders formation, which is one of the most bankable patterns in technical analysis.
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Mel Gibson was once one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, and M. Night Shyamalan was considered one of Hollywood's best directors.
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But many cities lack the expertise to prepare the studies needed to underpin major projects and make them bankable, experts say.
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Analysts say some governments have struggled to prepare infrastructure deals in a way that is 'bankable' and attracts private sector investment.
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That will force Indian officials to tighten auction rules to ensure that only serious, bankable bidders show up, industry sources said.
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And Batman is one of the most bankable superheroes of all time, no matter who is donning the cape and cowl.
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During that same stretch, he springboarded from mixtape-maker to bankable rap polyglot, all while getting a taste of movie stardom.
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FaZe says TFue was just your average "skilled gamer" when they found him -- and they transformed him into a bankable gaming pro.
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Fifty years ago this month, with Vegas in desperate need of a bankable star, Elvis arrived with his hat in his hand.
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Cities in developing countries need the skills to turn ideas and big visions into finance-ready bankable projects, C40's Alexander said.
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Daisy, Shelby, and Vivian became the templates for the performances that would cement her as the most bankable actress of the '903s.
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Freed from the constraints of commercial pop music but still considered a bankable star, Mr Walker made a quartet of solo albums.
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Not only that, but she's also the highest-grossing actress of all time and one of the few bankable women action stars.
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When it comes to the closet, you are really talking about huge, bankable film stars—someone who has a lot to lose.
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Matt Damon is one of those actors who has become one of the most recognizable and bankable stars in the movie industry.
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It freed Allergan to focus on more bankable brand-name drugs, while also providing it with more cash to pay down debt.
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These are life insurance policies into which the wealthy can place stocks, private equity holdings and other bankable assets, exploiting tax benefits.
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These funds must bypass the normal long cycle, bureaucratic procurement process and be dispersed with bankable ideas within 10 to 85033 days.
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ALONG FOR THE RIDE When "Easy Rider" (1969) was a runaway success, Hollywood briefly believed that Dennis Hopper was a bankable director.
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Moving into territory once the preserve of prestige dramas, horror has never been more bankable and celebrated than it is right now.
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On New Year's Eve, usually the most bankable time for a driver in the city, Mr. Santos was home with the flu.
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And perhaps more surprisingly, Nolan — who may be the most bankable director working today — has never been nominated for Best Director, until Dunkirk.
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For more than a decade, Mr. Cena has been one of the most bankable faces on the W.W.E. circus of oiled-up pectorals.
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The strategy now looks less bankable, though it is unclear whether Japan's weak collection of opposition parties can capitalize on any voter backlash.
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Esports streamers and gamers are among the most bankable influencers, pitching to a new generation of consumers that don't track traditional media sources.
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"We've been talking about getting bankable white male stars to refuse to be in movies that are not diverse and representative," she said.
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The grappling world might never have an athlete with bankable star power but it would seem that Tonon is the closest so far.
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The Hunger Games behemoth has raked in over $2.9 billion at the box office, making Jennifer Lawrence one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.
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Will Smith is also one of the box office's most popular and bankable stars with his films bringing in nearly $9 billion worldwide.
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She was the most polished, the most bankable (until sister Kylie Jenner's ascent), almost inhumanly adapted to the constant whirl of 5 a.m.
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As casting directors, there's a lot of pressure to get bankable names to attract audiences, which traditionally has meant two A-List white actors.
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Recently, we joined forces with other funders and BFA (Bankable Frontiers Associates) to support the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R2A): an accelerator for regulators.
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The biggest takeaway from the weekend's box office middle ranks comes from Mechanic: star Jason Statham clearly isn't as bankable as he once was.
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She has become one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, reliably carrying movies like "Spy" and "The Boss" to No. 1 at the box office.
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Last fall, a certain kind of TikToker began to emerge as the most popular, and therefore bankable, and it wasn't altogether a surprising one.
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The Ames collection contained the bankable names that are catnip for today's more cautious collectors — George Condo, Willem de Kooning, Kiefer, Franz Kline, and Richter.
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One of the most popular and bankable female stars for nearly two decades, Kidder struggled with bipolar disorder and homelessness after a public breakdown in 1996.
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Barring a token appearance for Jamaica in the relays at Glasgow, athletics' most bankable drawcard Usain Bolt steered clear of the showpiece during his brilliant career.
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Chris Hemsworth, who stars in this weekend's "Huntsman" sequel, has had many more box office flops than successes, yet he is considered a bankable movie star.
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The endlessly bankable star injured himself in April 2017 while preparing Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand; since then, he has been largely out of commission.
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And Clint Eastwood, playing a cranky drug courier in "The Mule," proved that he is still an incredibly bankable star, even at nearly 1003 years old.
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The Golden Knights' long search for a bankable backup to Marc-Andre Fleury finally came to a close, with the pickup of Islanders goalie Robin Lehner.
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Fan Bingbing, one of China's highest-paid and most bankable stars, has appeared in both Chinese and Western films, including the multimillion-dollar X-Men franchise.
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In Mr. O'Reilly's case, this was done to protect a bankable star: The Times has detailed at least six settlements against him that totaled $45 million.
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Some bankers questioned the need for such a fund given that Asia's project financing sector lacked commercially bankable projects for international sponsors and financiers, rather than liquidity.
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Chris Pratt has come a long way from his days stripping and living in a van to become one of Hollywood's most lovable, and bankable, action stars.
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Ronaldo's got bank too -- he reportedly made more than $108 MILLION in 2018 ... and continues to chart as one of the most bankable celebrities on the planet.
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In a similar vein GuarantCo, which is backed by aid agencies, helps make investments in infrastructure in poor countries bankable by taking on the most nettlesome risks.
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When her stories began to appear, Constance Woolson included "Fenimore" in her signature; as the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, she could claim a bankable literary inheritance.
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"Conor has signed and 'Cowboy' is ready to go," the UFC president said, giving the green light for the return of one of MMA's most bankable stars.
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Her selection underscored the extent to which, even at a moment when many ballet companies have struggled to sell tickets, individual dancers are still seen as bankable.
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If you're a UFC middleweight and you've been paying attention, you've learned that your record pales in comparison to whatever is convenient and bankable for your promoters.
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For others, it's a strategy to avoid irrelevance once you're past the age of being a bankable commodity in the industry where you made a name for yourself.
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But in an era of thirsty publishers determined to squeeze every salvageable drop out of dead, bankable authors, there is a raison d'être for I'd Die for You.
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Video footage appears to show the promotion's most bankable star throwing a hand truck at a bus full of fighters, injuring at least one scheduled to compete Saturday.
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And yes, that's fair, but also: The big fall movie from the most bankable comic star on this planet is a drama that will leave you in tears.
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Actress Yang Mi, with more than 77 million fans on social media platform Weibo, is another bankable name who works with brands like Estee Lauder and Michael Kors.
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Khan, the eldest son of famous screenwriter Salim Khan, is one of Bollywood's most bankable stars with reportedly more than $92 million riding on him and his incomplete projects.
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But she's also fashioned one of the most enduring and unexpectedly varied careers in the business, positioning herself as one of the most bankable — and powerful — stars in Hollywood.
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Bankable stars or a major auteur behind the camera can help, but the majority of foreign-language series that catch on around the world tend to be genre-driven.
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"Pan" (2015)By 20123, starring in crowd pleasers such as "Les Miserables" and the "X-Men" franchise had put Hugh Jackman in a bankable position as a leading man.
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In just two years Scott ascended to his status as hip-hop royalty and one of the most bankable stars on the planet, all because he didn't watch his step.
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To sell this role properly you need a bankable and age-appropriate star with the same Faintly Sketchy Trader Joe's Employee vibe that has made Dellavedova so beloved a figure.
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The company was known for its "art house films," that were "films of high quality, but most of them sorely lacking in bankable stars," Bob Weinstein wrote in Vanity Fair.
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In Mr. Lasseter's case, Disney executives led by Chief Executive Robert Iger are deciding the fate of a man long considered one of Hollywood's most bankable and well-known creative geniuses.
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Just like the blossoming yet shallow friendship between mean girls, it seems relations between the U.S. and Australia aren't as bankable as they were when we were all in grade school.
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When hackers published e-mails from executives at Sony Pictures, a film studio, the world learned that some of Hollywood's most bankable female stars earned less than their male co-stars.
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White now calls the decision to open up a women's division one of the smartest and most bankable decisions he's ever made; earlier this year, his company sold for $4 billion.
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"How do we make the ocean, in a sustainable fashion, a bankable proposition?" asked Jose Maria Figueres, former president of Costa Rica and co-chair of the Ocean Unite conservation group.
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Nine years into his career he's now one of the most bankable mainstream artists in the world with sellout tours, five number 1 albums, and numerous platinum certifications under his belt.
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The disappearance of one of China's most famous and most bankable stars shocked many in the entertainment industry, which had previously largely avoided Chinese President Xi Jinping's ongoing anti-corruption crackdown.
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Hereditary—a film about a mother(Toni Collette) whose family begins to unravel after terrifying secrets about the ancestry are revealed—shouldn't be bankable based on the emotion it's selling: grief.
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Note that there are so very few women directing films in Hollywood and many bright, talented (and recognizably bankable) men of all ages have never worked or rarely work for female directors.
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In other words: The Fate of the Furious is an historically massive hit, and the series as a whole continues to prove itself as one of the most bankable blockbusters in Hollywood.
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"Our major challenge is the bankable data, most mining companies will not want to come into your country when they are not sure of what they are going to meet," he said.
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In the case of cities in developing countries, the main challenges in building clean infrastructure include insufficient expertise, staff and resources to turn good ideas into bankable projects, said C40's Alexander.
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"The problem is not how much money is going to be available for Belt and Road, the problem is we have to find a structure (that is) bankable, commercially viable," he said.
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He was one of those who defied the usual precept—that, despite all the power talk, the only people who could really make anything happen were the seven or twelve bankable stars.
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For cities to attract investment and create a pipeline of bankable projects, they need the ability to borrow money and develop innovative methods like green bonds and public-private partnerships, Klein said.
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South Africa has shown how to design and implement a transparent and bankable procurement process, which has now run through four rounds and brought over 2000MW of renewable energy onto the grid.
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Chris Heathcote serves as the CEO of the Global Infrastructure Hub, an initiative launched by the G20 in 2014 with the mandate of growing the global pipeline of quality, bankable infrastructure projects.
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If that doesn't happen, Saturday's winner will have a menu of bankable options in boxing's deepest weight class, such as Shawn Porter, former junior welterweight Adrien Broner, or possibly even legend Manny Pacquiao.
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But she eventually realized that to get the Hollywood money she needed (she was in fact the first Black woman to direct a Hollywood studio-backed feature), she also needed "bankable" white stars.
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For all intents and purposes, the original cast was Star Trek: Their time was finite, and here they were, 15 years older than their original series selves, their bankable mileage quickly running out.
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The move is estimated to cost Juventus around $450 MILLION to sign Ronaldo through 2022 -- but, experts say it could be worth it because Ronaldo is the most bankable athlete in the world.
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"If we hear a straight person gets a queer part because someone is a bankable star, we've just lost another chance for that person to make a name as a queer person," says Nick.
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Ms. Foy has won a Golden Globe for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II on the Netflix drama "The Crown" but has yet to prove herself as a bankable lead in a feature film.
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New York (CNN Business)Netflix (NFLX)'s rollout plans for "The Irishman" is likely designed to please its subscribers, but it could also rankle theater owners who rely on bankable movies for foot traffic.
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A bankable master will rule in Washington, too, when "Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry" arrives, from the Louvre, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on Oct. 22.
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It reflects a bet by Broadway that "Hamilton" alumni have ongoing, bankable box-office appeal (another member of the original "Hamilton" cast, Phillipa Soo, will star in an adaptation of "Amélie" opening in April).
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At the peak of his career, Reynolds was one of the most bankable actors in the film industry, reeling off a series of box-office smashes until a career downturn in the mid-19793s.
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In the above video, Screen Junkies pick apart the most amusing moments from DC's super-successful summer blockbuster — everything from Gal Gadot's accent to Chris Pine's rampant march up the leaderboard of "bankable Hollywood Chris'".
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Meadow's lawyer says the $10.1 mil only represents a small fraction of what his client should get given his status as a bankable movie star and the lead in the "Fast and the Furious" franchise.
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But they haven't, and more than a few TomTom cocktails were created by Sandoval and Schwartz (more on that in a minute), but not without some bankable drama for Vanderpump Rules cameras first, of course.
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" The situation with solar power in developing markets post-Paris, says Abramowitz, is such that: "There is nearly unlimited debt today for these projects and the development banks are begging for a bankable deal flow.
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For more than a year, the pianist Lang Lang has been largely out of commission with an injured left arm — a major loss, since he is one of classical music's biggest and most bankable stars.
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Back in 33, another era of the music industry — when the bad news was about piracy and record stores dying, and there wasn't much good news — Lil Wayne stood out as a rare bankable star.
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Before Ryan Reynolds was one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, he enjoyed a momentary fling with '90s teen idol Melissa Joan Hart — and she says she kind of regrets not giving him more of a chance!
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If La La Land was actually a risk, that isn't due to its classic Hollywood plot, its odes to vintage Technicolor or tap-dance routines, its bankable stars, or even the fact that it's a musical.
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It's a pattern we've seen far too often, one that's propelled by narrow concepts about black women; black actresses aren't bankable, black women don't listen to talk radio, black women don't watch genre TV and film.
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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries need to start viewing ocean conservation as a "bankable" investment to attract funding for initiatives to cut pollution and protect industries like fishing, said political and economic leaders.
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The concept of "fun" is especially important in this instance, because "fun" once defined Will Smith's career: from 1995's Bad Boys to 2005's Hitch, his run as a bankable, charismatic entertainer was nearly unbeatable.
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A bankable, diverse cast including Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel and Charlize Theron is leading the film, directed by F. Gary Gray, to a two-frame global total of $744.8 million and worldwide sum of $908.4 million.
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Project Pat and Juicy J's heyday is one of the most prominent influences on the genre's current styles while Slim Jimmi and Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd have become one of the most bankable acts today.
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"We told them that their PPP model was not bankable, that they would be taking on risks they don't know how to manage," said an official from the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union's lender.
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We can debate endlessly the logic or morality of Simon & Schuster's giving Milo a lucrative deal, but ultimately the responsibility for the climate that made this professional hater a bankable figure is the GOP's, and Trump's, own.
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However, despite his antics and his troubles and his exploits, Brown had already proved himself a bankable choice for blockbuster jams in 1989, when he topped the charts with "On Our Own" for the Ghostbusters II soundtrack.
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When we talk about "blockbuster" franchises in video games, we're talking about bankable names: Call of Duty, Battlefield, Final Fantasy, and Madden are some of those names, and I'm sure you can rattle off a dozen more.
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Khan, one of India's most recognizable and bankable actors, was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for killing two blackbucks while working on a film in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan in 1998.
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It's not to everyone's taste; it's not a Marvel property; its cast isn't necessarily as bankable as the stars of a movie like Hidden Figures; and it's not based on a true story like Straight Outta Compton.
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There is a need to draw up "bankable projects" in regions with a modern energy deficit, such as Africa, and to provide development finance to lower risk and encourage private-sector investors on a large scale, she added.
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Adidas has previously used Bale's status as one of the world's most recognizable and bankable soccer stars to launch its products and has enlisted him to be the first to wear a number of its new soccer boots.
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With "Kiss of the Spider Woman," an adaptation of Manuel Puig's 1976 novel of the same name, Mr. Babenco established himself as a filmmaker unafraid to push the boundaries of what Hollywood's old guard deemed appropriate or bankable.
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" (Both men were also particularly bankable in 1992, thanks to their consecutive turns as Batman villains.) Fox had high hopes for the production, with Joe Roth telling The Los Angeles Times, "Want to hear the early-morning line?
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But before she became a bankable film star gracing countless magazine covers, she was just another young, working actress in an industry with impossibly high beauty standards, according to a new book in honor of Friends' 25th anniversary.
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The monster-action epic opens in North America in February, and producers are gambling that Western audiences will pay for a movie that is very much Chinese, even if it does have a bankable American star, Matt Damon.
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While the success of Good Night stories for Rebel Girls is timely proof that stories starring girls and women are bankable, Carolyn Danckaert, co-founder of the site A Mighty Girl, worries it may inadvertently send the wrong message.
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"China is also a big aid donor, particularly for infrastructure projects, an area in which U.S. companies have had trouble competing because Southeast Asian governments produce so few bankable projects that U.S. banks are willing to finance," he said.
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Khan, one of India's most recognizable and bankable actors, was found guilty of killing two blackbucks, a type of antelope found in the country, while working on a film in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan in the 1998.
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Guaranteed for $100 million, the collection, with its emphasis on big, instantly recognizable paintings by bankable names such as Mr. Richter, Willem de Kooning, George Condo, Anselm Kiefer and Franz Kline, seemed to be exactly what the market ordered.
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"Culturally we've always been overshadowed by the film industry, and now the art world is at a weird parallel with it," said Sterling Ruby, one of Los Angeles's most bankable artists, who has a four-acre studio complex in Vernon, Calif.
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"Hollywood's Most Bankable Badass," wears a very fashion-forward red semi-sheer dress with crystallized firework embellishment across the bust and a metal stud-embellished black leather harness both by Gucci, paired with fine jewelry from David Yurman and De Beers.
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Rio Tinto's joint venture Simfer said in a statement on Monday it had submitted the bankable feasibility study of the mine and the infrastructure of the Simandou South Project on the basis of extensive analysis over the last two years.
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Based on this trailer, Passengers seems to be what would happen if you mashed up every great space sci-fi film ever, slammed a Michael Bay filter on it, and cast the two most bankable beautiful actors in starring roles.
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A year later, Elektra, starring Jennifer Garner, bombed with critics and at the box office, too, adding to a flawed-but-snowballing theory that the problem wasn't the movies themselves, but the fact that women, in general, just aren't bankable.
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In a world where cisgender white men are still seen as the only bankable protagonists in most every performed medium, Soloway's decision to focus a highly visible show on the story of a septuagenarian trans woman is nothing short of radical.
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Though Sam convinces Debbie to join the G.L.O.W. team as the bankable headliner, Gilpin adds a layer of self-doubt and restraint to her performance that shows just how wounding the star system can be even to its leading ladies.
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While Random Acts of Flyness still has the trappings of a bankable TV show through star power—Lakeith Stanfield, Jon Hamm, Whoopi Goldberg, for example—the series still holds true when telling stories in the ways a black and frustrated.
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"Buster Scruggs" is one of the Coens' less commercially promising films, an anthology of six short stories set in the Wild West — and while there are plenty of familiar faces, they usually belong to talented character actors, rather than bankable stars.
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The new business model would aim to use the World Bank Group's technical expertise and guarantees to prepare and "de-risk" projects and markets to make them "bankable" for risk-averse investors such as pension funds and insurance companies, Kim said.
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Akshay Kumar, 49, who is one of Bollywood's most bankable actors and also a celebrity ambassador for the government's Clean India campaign, said he chose to play the lead in "Toilet" because it highlighted the problems so many women face.
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Similarly, nonprofits with glossy proposals are often seen as bankable even though some of them have terrible reputations in the communities they serve, while groups with excellent reputations on the ground and less slick proposals are often seen as risky. Risk.
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Movie studios' conceptions of what was bankable and what wasn't differed considerably in the 1970s from what they are now — or at least they did at Universal, whose wildly varied output in those years is the subject of this series.
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In addition to bringing back Johnson, "Next Level" reunited Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and Jack Black, the bankable cast who appeared in "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," a 2017 reboot that made about $404.5 million during its run in domestic theaters.
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How many people remember that, before Scarlett Johansson was one of the world's biggest and most bankable screen icons, she began her career with a tiny supporting role in the hugely unsuccessful second sequel to John Hughes' kiddie comedy franchise, "Home Alone 3"?
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It's become quite common for studios to take a heavy hand to their superhero efforts in the hopes of creating not just a good movie, but a bankable one that fits into an expansive film universe in the midst of a tight schedule.
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AS NIGHT follows day and Eid al-Fitr follows Ramadan, so there is another certainty for India's Muslims marking the end of the month of fasting: the release of an action-drama extravaganza starring Salman Khan, one of the country's most bankable stars.
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Even comparisons to horror movies by directors known for their ambition, like "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Shining," don't quite cut it, as Aronofsky -- having directed "Black Swan" and "The Wrestler" -- has essentially cast bankable stars in what feels like an experimental indie film.
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Today there are numerous talent shows, along with many more variety shows and well-known chart TV countdown shows like Inkigayo and M Countdown, which factor into how successful — and therefore bankable — a K-pop idol or idol group is seen to be.
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If McGregor, who returned Saturday night after a 15-month layoff, can stay in the octagon and out of legal trouble, he gives the U.F.C. a bankable star with mainstream profile, and gives fighters in two sports a chance at career-defining paydays.
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So I love when folks are discounting the consumer sector or discounting the whole world of direct-to-consumer brands as non-venture bankable or ... To me, that's an example of where people are starting to get lazy, and they're starting to generalize.
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Having fought for three decades to tell stories she truly believed in while working within a Hollywood system that often didn't see Black films as "bankable," now in her sixties she has several finished scripts ready for production and a few projects currently in development.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — It may be said that art fairs have traditionally been seen as barometers that indicate current moods or trends in the art market, presenting a snapshot of what may currently be in fashion, or bankable, for collectors.
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If studios can make early streaming an additional path to revenue for these adult dramas and other, lately-less-bankable genres outside of the theater, it could lead to these same studios taking risks on big budget films that aren't, say, Transformers 7: Bumblebee Begins.
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Over the last decade, industry consolidation has pressured the major studios to reduce their investment in prestigious, mid-budget movies in favor of more bankable, mega-budget movies—thus the increasing reliance on film franchises like The Avengers and The Fast and the Furious.
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Wang Zhenyu, a Beijing-based associate research fellow at China Institute of International Studies, a think-tank linked to the nation's foreign ministry, said there was a lack of bankable projects in countries along the OBOR route, something that a country like New Zealand offered.
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It's a remarkable turnaround for this Belgian-born actor, who became a bankable action star in the 1980s and '23s in films directed by some of Hong Kong's greatest action directors, then watched as personal troubles — an addiction to cocaine, contentious divorces — scuttled his career.
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He's not terribly bankable outside of Pirates (as Scott Mendelson underlines here), especially in recent years and even when you account for international box office, and he was the headline star of Alice Through the Looking Glass, one of the biggest flops of 2016.
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Film Series Movie studios' conceptions of what was bankable and what wasn't differed considerably in the 1970s from what they are now — or at least they did at Universal, whose wildly varied output in those years is the subject of this series, through Feb. 7.
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In a long-ago era when Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt were both bankable movie stars, the pair teamed up for this romantic comedy, which depicted Gibson as a male chauvinist who becomes capable of psychically hearing women's thoughts after an accident with a hair dryer.
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While there has been speculation Jon Jones could step into the main event at UFC 200 to fight for the light heavyweight title, the former champion's labored win over Ovince Saint Preux on Sunday may have prompted White to give his most bankable asset another chance.
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"When you do an energy project or a road project, the reality is that you kind of come up with what we call a bankable project, which means how it's not only going to be built, but how it's also going to be maintained," he said.
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Verdon played the lead role (a gutsy hostess in a New York dance hall) in the musical on Broadway and received raves, but the producers at Universal thought they needed a more bankable (and younger) name to carry off the screen version and brought in Shirley MacLaine.
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It makes film and television companies far more risk-averse, narrowing their output to that which seems the most bankable, thereby creating a climate in which no one would be willing to take a chance on a 24-year-old with a script about inner city life.
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Unlike the world of independent cinema, where innovation and surprise are the best way to catch the eyes of critics and audiences, Hollywood producers are looking for bankable formulas that they can repeat, until they've squeezed every drop of possible ticket money out of the public.
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A Reuters review of records and interviews show: * McClendon no longer controlled the bulk of his most bankable venture, the one that helped make him a billionaire while he was CEO of Chesapeake: his stake in thousands of company oil and gas wells awarded to him during his tenure.
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From there he consolidated his status as a bankable star of action flicks and tried his hand at screenwriting, penning the crime noir Before I Self Destruct (2009), shoot-em-up thriller Gun, and All Things Fall Apart, a drama that saw him lose more than 50 lbs.
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So it makes sense that the star would keep circling back to his most bankable franchise, embarking on his sixth outing as Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," a movie chock full of jaw-dropping stunts, even if it doesn't quite know when to hit the eject button.
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"Jaws" was a masterpiece by a wunderkind director, but it also proved out a new business model: a gimmicky idea, bankable stars, and aggressive television ad campaigns, all of it designed to trigger audience anticipation and drive a massive Friday-night opening across thousands of screens—critics and snobs be damned.
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But as Shapiro and the play's commercial producers mulled New York, many of the bankable male actors they considered didn't "necessarily understand the joys of ensemble theater," Letts said, noting that Superba shares the stage with an assortment of council members, adorned with similarly Dickensian names like Oldfield, Assalone, and Carp.
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Scientific studies also suggest algorithms only produce limited predictive gains, often repeating obvious insights (like "Scarlett Johansson is a bankable film star") that can be discovered without AI. But for those backing machine learning in filmmaking, the benefit is simply that such tools produce uncomplicated analysis faster than humans can.
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With vanishingly few details about Benioff and Weiss's upcoming movies to go on, the one solid takeaway here is that Disney and Lucasfilm are going full throttle on building out an entirely new Star Wars universe — one that they are probably hoping can rival Marvel's ever-expanding stable of reliably bankable superheroes.
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I worry that a studio exec who's deeply internalized this model might hear the words "rom-com resurgence" and be tempted to throw millions at these movies, paying through the nose for bankable international stars and big-name directors with the expectation of a return on investment that is unlikely to happen.
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No matter what happens in the film's second weekend, though, Us's success makes it clear that Jordan Peele is one of Hollywood's most bankable and buzzworthy filmmakers, the relatively rare director (alongside figures like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino) who can bring people into the movie theater on the strength of his name alone.
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Such types of music and other spiritual works of performance are often presented in the form of an iconic, bankable eccentric to be marveled at, or within the context of artificial scarcity in physical formats like vinyl or cassette that need to be excavated and reissued within the hoard of known Western canonical works.
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It wasn't long ago that Depp was one of the most bankable and highly sought-after actors in Hollywood, but after his divorce from wife Amber Heard revealed a string of unpalatable abuse allegations, it seems possible that audiences were less drawn to a Depp movie this year than they may have been in years past.
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Mr. Statham, a Brit, has proved more bankable as a member of an ensemble cast ("The Fate of the Furious") than he has as a solo star, and "The Meg" surrounds him with recognizable faces from TV series, including Cliff Curtis ("Fear the Walking Dead"), Rainn Wilson ("The Office") and Ruby Rose ("Orange is the New Black").
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The recent launch of Kourtney Kardashian's Goop-esque new lifestyle website, Poosh, has already blessed us with many things: wine recommendations from a member of a notoriously teetotaling family, instructions on how to obtain an "instant butt lift," and further evidence that made-up names with two O's in the middle are infinitely more bankable than other kinds of words.
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Committee Chairman John BarrassoJohn Anthony BarrassoIf Democrats want gun control, they must first concede defeat Conway: Republican concerns about gun reform 'all reconcilable' Five proposals Congress is eyeing after mass shootings MORE (R-Wyo.) and various witnesses understandably expressed concern that P21625 transportation projects that rely on tolls might favor urban areas, which have the traffic to make the projects bankable.
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If a new California-based party can win votes and legislative seats, it could send a signal to politicians around the country that moderation can be a bankable political strategy, helping to break the vise grip of tribal politics that has turned so much of national politics into a blood sport and made it impossible for Congress to pass substantive bipartisan legislation.
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" In Jeune Afrique , François Soudan accused her of choosing themes that were gratuitously offensive to ordinary Moroccans in an effort to ingratiate herself with a French élite: "To be bankable in the media right now on the Left Bank of the Seine, the good Arab is obliged to be secular, Islamophobic, preferably libertine, and, if possible, under threat (for the preceding) in his country of origin.
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But I think if we're talking about the broad assumptions surrounding romantic comedies, and if we're talking about more inclusive storytelling, and if we're talking about bankable romantic leads who aren't white, and if we're talking about whether romantic comedies can succeed at the box office, we can't not talk about the lack of consideration that's been afforded to black romantic comedies over the years by the broader film community.
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"The key is to make projects bankable with predictable cash flows and clear reliable regulations, the key is predictability and a clear time frame that developers must adhere to," said Ingrid Naranjo, head of investor relations at asset management firm Centuria Capital UK. The ministry added it would announce the next phase of its renewable energy projects during the Saudi Arabia Renewable Energy Investment Forum (SAREIF) in Riyadh on April 17-18.
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The partners who cut their teeth together in the lo-fi worlds of digital radio and microbudget sitcoms have arrived, two decades later, in the most glamorous territory imaginable—albeit of two very different types: Gervais in the auteur's playground of the TV miniseries, making adult dramas about bereavement and existential misery; Merchant in the director's chair in Tinseltown, rattling out feel-good sports biopics with the planet's most bankable movie star.
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My proudest career moment was when I was at dinner with an A-list director in 2014 and everyone was saying they hadn't seen JOHN WICK and no one seemed into it and I, after being nervously silent all night, banged on the table and screamed "It's fucking awesome" The first film's sleeper success in 2014 revitalized Reeves's career — which is saying something given that he was already one of the most bankable stars of the modern era.
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