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Recent Examples of screenwriter
They were first romantically linked in July 2025, several months after Plaza’s late husband, screenwriter and director Jeff Baena, died.
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
The new film, which is both written and directed by the franchise’s longtime screenwriter John Hamburg, sees Grande play Olivia Jones, the fiancé of Pam and Greg Focker’s son who now has to endure the tribulations of meeting the parents (and grandparents) before joining the family.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
What’s interesting is that Odenkirk, 63, is credited, along with screenwriter Derek Kolstad, with the story’s premise.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
His occasional work as a screenwriter over the years — all on unproduced projects, including a Jo Nesbo adaptation for Channing Tatum — has taught him the value of narrative economy.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2026
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
The new film, which is both written and directed by the franchise’s longtime screenwriter John Hamburg, sees Grande play Olivia Jones, the fiancé of Pam and Greg Focker’s son who now has to endure the tribulations of meeting the parents (and grandparents) before joining the family.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
What’s interesting is that Odenkirk, 63, is credited, along with screenwriter Derek Kolstad, with the story’s premise.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
His occasional work as a screenwriter over the years — all on unproduced projects, including a Jo Nesbo adaptation for Channing Tatum — has taught him the value of narrative economy.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
Noun
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In classical Athens the playwright Aristophanes attacked purveyors of knowledge for being intellectually untrustworthy, essentially deceitful.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Đỗ is a Vietnamese American playwright and a second-year UCSD MFA playwriting student.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Suzuki Tsutomu, who served as both scriptwriter and producer, spoke to Variety about why Nippon TV moved early on AI, what happened when the technology surprised the production itself, and how the broadcaster is thinking about the model’s commercial future.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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As a Jewish food writer and anthropologist of sorts, Joan Nathan had always been interested in her own family’s history.—
Jackie Hajdenberg,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
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Every baseball fan who reads your venerable newspaper knows this great Hall of Fame baseball writer would never have deigned to explain the Mets’ disastrous spring with the aid of these equations.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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The dramatist’s mode is broader and brasher, calculated for the sweep of the stage rather than the close-up, with splashes of color and humor that can verge on camp.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
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Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.—
Miles Beller,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Feb. 2026
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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The visual, which was edited by Mikayla LoBasso, was filmed inside of a stationery store, featuring the song’s lyrics written with different pens on paper scattered throughout the store.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
24 Apr. 2026
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Kids who didn’t bring pens with them scrambled to borrow one from anybody — the adults on the field, their parents in the stands, even a reporter standing nearby.—
Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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