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screenplay

[skreen-pley] / ˈskrinˌpleɪ /


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But the film’s screenplay — a biting, laugh-a-minute wonder penned by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack — shrewdly plays with genre conventions and audience expectations, illuminating more depth with every other sentence.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

Large language models can spew Mississippi Rivers of data and text, but they struggle to write a log line for a 120-page screenplay, a subtitle for a book, or a few lines of poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay traces Facebook’s creation back to a very old human desire: getting noticed by the people who matter.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

“The Death of Robin Hood” seeks something like the profundity of “Unforgiven,” but its writing doesn’t approach the power of that movie’s much revered David Webb Peoples screenplay.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

“As soon as I get this screenplay to Ms. Francis, I’ll be free to hang out again.”

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

"In the Writing categories, the rules codify that screenplays must be human-authored to be eligible."

From Barron's May 1, 2026

This complex relationship to the West in general and Texas—McMurtry’s home state—in particular courses through the McMurtry oeuvre of novels, screenplays, nonfiction and criticism.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

Fennell’s eye for image-making is her greatest directorial strength; it’s what keeps her films afloat even when their screenplays struggle to tread water.

From Salon Feb. 14, 2026

Most of the screenplays I worked on this past year were adaptations, so it wasn’t new stuff.

From Salon Jan. 14, 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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