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box office gold

noun as in matinee idol

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While Apple TV+ has found critical success with its shows, including “Severance,” “The Studio” and “Your Friends & Neighbors” — and notched its first best picture Oscar win in 2022 with “CODA” — its films had not yet clinched box office gold.

And the bloody melodrama of history is indulged with the malevolent glee that made Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine the Great” Elizabethan box office gold.

Box office gold with Timothée Chalamet as the lead.

A horror comedy with Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase would once have been box office gold.

Plus: What Next examines how Sound of Freedom wove QAnon conspiracy theories into box office gold.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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