bankable

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Studio executives and theater operators chalk up the improved prospects to several factors, including a better and more plentiful crop of bankable movies that are giving consumers more reason to trek to the multiplex.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

For decades, it was one of the most bankable brands in food.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Gene Hackman, who has died aged 95, was once described as having the face of a truck driver, but became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

Concurrently, movies focused on white stories to avoid anti-miscegenation laws, not to mention white performers were seen as more bankable, especially to white audiences.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2024

The same cupidity has given rise to two new terms in the miners' glossary,—trade dust and bankable dust.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various