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Recent Examples of screenwriter
Mankiewicz also talks with actress Lorraine Gary and screenwriter Carl Gottlieb about their experiences working with Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and a young director making his first big-budget studio film.
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David Morgan
july 3, CBS News, 3 July 2025
Director and screenwriter Jeff Hupp, who teamed up with two longtime friends to make the film, is a former member of the Motor City indie band the Atomic Numbers.
—Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
Brooks and Bancroft had one son together, Max, now a screenwriter himself.
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 28 June 2025
With Villeneuve onboard, the search is now underway for a screenwriter, and eventually, the next famous face brave enough to accept the mission of playing the suave super spy.
—EW.com, 26 June 2025
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David Morgan
july 3, CBS News, 3 July 2025
Director and screenwriter Jeff Hupp, who teamed up with two longtime friends to make the film, is a former member of the Motor City indie band the Atomic Numbers.
—Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
Brooks and Bancroft had one son together, Max, now a screenwriter himself.
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 28 June 2025
With Villeneuve onboard, the search is now underway for a screenwriter, and eventually, the next famous face brave enough to accept the mission of playing the suave super spy.
—EW.com, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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The likes of Maxton Hall scriptwriter Julia Dehne, Smallville showrunner Kelly Souders and Banijay Entertainment co-fiction chief Johannes Jensen are in town for Seriencamp.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
3 June 2025
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The growing awareness of feminism in the '70s spurred Houlihan's transformation from caricature to real person, but a lot of the change was due to Swit's influence on the scriptwriters.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2025
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The 8th annual New Works Festival gets things started from Oct. 9 to 13, and offers audiences the ability to see fresh stagings by playwrights in need of early reactions to help develop and hone their writing.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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The playwrights essentially used the moral panic over evolution at the heart of the play to stand in for the contemporary moral panic over communism.—
Time,
Time,
10 July 2025
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Times staff writer Rachel Uranga contributed to this report.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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Enquirer staff writer Gillian Stawiszynski contributed to this report.—
Kevin Grasha,
The Enquirer,
11 July 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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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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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
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Other small but apt touches include a Polaroid camera, a Clueless board game, and fuzzy pens, layered.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
10 July 2025
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In a home office, stock pens, scissors, and notepads for easy accessibility during work.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
9 July 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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