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

Notes were usually made to pay a given number of "dollars, in good, bankable dust."

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