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screenplay

[skreen-play] / ˈskrinˌpleɪ /


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A screenplay may be a different monster from a novel, but both depend on a writer’s foresight.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

But within days of sending the screenplay, Segan got word that Turturro wanted to have lunch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Word about the screenplay spread quickly in Hollywood, but, as the bids mounted, buyers balked when Mr. Stallone insisted that he play the lead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In the interim, Iñárritu kept developing the screenplay from something more realistic about Digger to a more heightened narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

For six weeks in Los Angeles during that turbulent summer, the American writer William Faulkner worked frantically to turn Battle Cry into a screenplay.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The biography paints the director’s close collaboration with Robert Riskin, whose screenplays included “It Happened One Night,” “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” and “Meet John Doe,” in idyllic terms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Van Zandt has no signs of slowing down anytime soon, as Page Six recently reported that he is working on screenplays “set in the Garden State.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Because the streamer’s standards are low, the screenplays Netflix produces are mediocre.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Although Dorothy Parker tried her hand at plays and had a successful writing career in Hollywood—her screenplays included 1937’s “A Star is Born”—she excelled in briefer forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

She and Koch collaborated on several screenplays, and she was finally given screen credit for her work in 1941.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow


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