screenwriter
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Colbert said he and Jackson further discussed the project with veteran screenwriter Philippa Boyens and presented it to production company NewLine and its parent company, Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
He added: "I started talking it over with my son Peter, who's also a screenwriter, and we worked out what we thought would work, especially as a framing device for that story."
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Two years ago, screenwriter Diablo Cody was in the middle of trying to write “a very big, commercial, four-quadrant movie” when she gave birth to her third child.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Why an Oscar-winning screenwriter would make a film that makes so little attempt to dig into its central character is baffling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
In the late 1960s, the screenwriter Norman Lear produced a television sitcom pilot for a show called All in the Family.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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