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[film] / fɪlm /


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take photographs
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If you’re a fan of film and all the places it can take you, you can’t do much better than this.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

“It felt like I got to honor the film and the Broadway show, and the mixed media of both worlds,” Scott said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Her uncle was Cecil B. DeMille, the powerful film director, and Agnes had grown up wanting to be an actor.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

She also starred in 2006 cheerleading comedy Bring It On: All or Nothing, the third instalment in the Bring It On film series.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

He’d helped track down the spies who’d stolen American atomic bomb secrets during World War II. This new piece of film reminded him of that operation.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

If those films sound preposterous, it’s because they are.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

To construct the device, the researchers added silver nanoparticles to a layer of customized DNA sequences -- specially designed to be of certain compositions and lengths -- that was integrated with thin films of perovskite.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

The HBO Max series is based on DC comic book characters and is set within the same universe as films like “Superman” and “Supergirl” and the TV series “Peacemaker.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Panettiere's career spanned three decades with a string of roles in other hit TV shows and films, including the Scream horror film franchise and romantic comedy Raising Helen.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Antique furniture, the kind I’d seen in films from the 1940s, was positioned around the room.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Since then, she’s posted a number of TikToks about buying the car and filmed videos in front of it to show off the lavish life she made from being an influencer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

This is the same Jimmy Chin who later filmed Alex Honnold as he climbed El Capitan in Yosemite without ropes or harness in “Free Solo,” which won the 2019 Oscar for Best Documentary.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Although movie-goers saw him last year in "The Lost Bus," that was filmed after "The Rivals of Amziah King" wrapped.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Only one, which did not move forward, was filmed last year; of the three filmed in 2026, only one is going ahead.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

We filmed the shows after school, then broadcast them that night—prime time—on local cable.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Dent added that the studio was a "complete treat" and was "busy all year round" with MasterChef filming.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

"They're filming continually and I don't have any control over how they cut me, so really you're just getting the real me."

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

She finds that her summers in Fiji, the show’s filming location, always leave her with a fresh perspective.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

When Michael Dwyer and Justin Krook started filming “Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear” in 2017, they expected it to be completed within just a few years.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

He stayed that way a few moments longer, arm raised, chest heaving, a fine sheen of sweat filming his brow.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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