scriptwriter

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Recent Examples of scriptwriter Understand first what Hollywood scriptwriters call the backstory: Intel for decades dominated the global semiconductor industry, designing and manufacturing leading-edge chips. Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024 Popular on Variety The scriptwriters are Lazarov, Ekaterina Churilova and Simeon Ventsislavov. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Sep. 2024 The film is directed by Shiraishi Kazuya from a decades-old screenplay by the late, great scriptwriter Kasahara Kazuo (Japanese Yakuza, Battles Without Honor and Humanity). Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024 Lillis worked for a time as a scriptwriter, turning in treatments of episodes of anime series like Boogiepop Phantom and K.O. Beast in the early 2000s. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for scriptwriter 
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Noun
  • Watch the Trailer for Laverne Cox's Clean Slate, The Last Show From a Late Sitcom Legend The series is the last one from the late Norman Lear, a pioneering screenwriter and producer known for creating socially relevant sitcoms.
    James Factora, Them, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Stone’s mother was an actress, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist who wrote under the name Spellman Stone, so pseudonyms were a family tradition.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That has always naturally appealed to me and has been one of the most exciting aspects of chatting directly with writers.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025
  • At the time of his first face-to-face with Stiller, the unknown writer was still driving for Postmates.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Book of Will, in CCA’s Black Box Theatre, written by one of America’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, Lauren Gunderson, takes the audience to thepost-Shakespearean world of Elizabethan England.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The comedy by American playwright Joseph Kesserlring, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, 1941.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The authority has invested in developing the island’s talented artists, dramatists, songwriters, dancers and filmmakers, as well as in establishing a year-round calendar of vibrant cultural events, including the unmissable Tobago Carnival in October.
    Tobago House of Assembly, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.
    Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • Yoshida handed the trophy over to their guests, pulled out a pen, and asked a simple question.
    Don Riddell, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The pastel colors brightened my desk and made writing tasks more enjoyable, and no teacher likes a rough pen.
    Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 3 Feb. 2025

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