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Recent Examples of screenwriter
Owner Nikos Tsepetis recently commissioned Efthimis Filippou—the screenwriter behind many of Yorgos Lanthimos’s movies—to make a short film celebrating the hotel’s 30th anniversary.
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Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
The committee is rounded out by Belgian filmmaker Laura Wandel, Chilean director-screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, and Isaach De Bankolé, who won the César (France’s version of the Academy Award) for most promising actor for Thomas Gilou’s Black Mic Mac in 1987.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
Director Simon McQuoid has returned for the sequel, with a new screenwriter, Jeremy Slater, penning the script.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
Dobrofsky, a screenwriter with an excellent Substack aimed at those who still want to pursue the inside track in Hollywood, explains why some younger writers have embraced a misguided pivot towards treatments and pitch decks instead of writing scripts on spec.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 8 May 2026
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Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
The committee is rounded out by Belgian filmmaker Laura Wandel, Chilean director-screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, and Isaach De Bankolé, who won the César (France’s version of the Academy Award) for most promising actor for Thomas Gilou’s Black Mic Mac in 1987.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
Director Simon McQuoid has returned for the sequel, with a new screenwriter, Jeremy Slater, penning the script.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
Dobrofsky, a screenwriter with an excellent Substack aimed at those who still want to pursue the inside track in Hollywood, explains why some younger writers have embraced a misguided pivot towards treatments and pitch decks instead of writing scripts on spec.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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But one thing that grew up in this production of playwright Luis Alfaro’s Chicano trilogy that the theatre began two years ago was Three Bone.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2026
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It was later renamed in 1959 for playwright Eugene O'Neill, widely considered the father of modern American drama.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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But then, just as the scriptwriters were smelling another famous European night in Liverpool, Mariani was sent to the monitors by the VAR.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
15 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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Romance writers never write about their real life — right?—
Eloisa James,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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They were briefly paused to allow the studios to finish negotiations with the writers’ union.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 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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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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Yes—putting metaphorical pen to page is fundamental, but so, too, is nurturing that which expands my literary capacity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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Stock the table with blank sheets of paper and envelopes to write on and decorate with colorful pens, stickers, stamps, and stencils.—
Kylie Petty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 May 2026
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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