Definition of screenplay
: the script and often shooting directions of a story prepared for motion-picture production
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an award for best screenplay
each actor will be given a copy of the screenplay to study
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Peter Hoare (Killing Hasselhoff, Kevin Can Wait)) will pen the screenplay ahead of a shoot in New York City later this year.
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Directed by David Soren, from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, based on the books by Dav Pilkey.
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Seth Gordon directed the film based on a screenplay by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift.
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His replacement vessel, in an attempt at humor that epitomizes the tone of the cheesy screenplay, is called the Dying Gull.
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This definition includes poetry, screenplays, detective novels, sports writing, songwriting, advertising, and stand-up comedy.
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Banderas plays a blocked, alcoholic, formerly famous writer named Paul, who’s trying to knock out a screenplay at a remote mountain cabin.
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The stories are a little undercooked, but the show is redeemed by its finale — an atmospheric, intelligent missing-persons tale adapted by the leading Irish playwright Conor McPherson, his first TV screenplay.
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Aspiring authors submit their screenplay, script, or book to the site, which is then registered in a database.
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First Known Use of screenplay
1916
SCREENPLAY Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of screenplay for English Language Learners
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: the written form of a movie that also includes instructions on how it is to be acted and filmed : the script for a movie
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