How to Use unproduced in a Sentence

unproduced

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  • The movie has had a long road to the big screen after being on the Black List, a list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, in 2010.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Leonard’s Black List is known for its annual list of the best unproduced screenplays.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • The Black List's Franklin Leonard mingled with some of the writers that got signed off his annual list of unproduced screenplays.
    — Ramona Saviss, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Having a context and structure for the songs from the unproduced musical is great.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Budget issues also help explain the string of unproduced projects that came and went.
    — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The annual list honors the best unproduced horror and dark genre film and pilot scripts.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2022
  • To put these questions to the test, The Times compiled a series of excerpts from various unproduced scripts and screenplays.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The screenplay — writer Alex Convery’s first to be produced — was selected for the 2021 Black List, the buzzy annual list of the best unproduced scripts.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The screenplay - writer Alex Convery’s first to be produced - was selected for the 2021 Black List, the buzzy annual list of the best unproduced scripts.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The move breathes new life into one of Hollywood’s oldest unproduced scripts.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The Black List is an annual ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The script got the attention of Hollywood with a spot on the coveted Black List in 2015, a survey of the industry’s best unproduced screenplays.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2018
  • Nicolas Cage was even cast in an unproduced film adaptation from Tim Burton.
    — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2023
  • LaBeouf co-wrote the film’s script and hosted it on the Black List, a website tracking the most popular unproduced scripts in the industry that’s become a resource for directors searching for their next projects.
    — Emma Stefansky, HWD, 17 Mar. 2018
  • In 2019, Semans' screenplay made Hollywood's Black List, the annual round-up of admired but unproduced scripts.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 28 July 2022
  • The album feels live – not unproduced, but very immediate.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Franklin Leonard is back to save screenplays from unproduced purgatory.
    — Vulture, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The script is by a deceased-journalist-turned-unproduced-screenwriter named Jack Fincher.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Schrier, by contrast, had memorized more than a dozen of his own violent, unproduced screenplays, and acted them out, one by one, for Padnos.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2021
  • At the close of a particularly fraught year for Hollywood screenwriters, Monday saw the release of the annual Black List – a ranking of the top unproduced scripts in show business.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
  • For older boats, which can constitute the majority in many ports, the still-unproduced engines likely cannot be retrofitted.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Winkler is a rising star; one of her plays was included on last year’s annual Kilroys list of unproduced and under-produced plays by female and trans playwrights.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2018
  • They’re not widely known to viewers – they’ve written several unproduced screenplays – and their first major work is also said to be one of the most expensive series ever made.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Details are being kept quiet, but it’s based on a previously unproduced script of Chase’s, with a contemporary take by Fidell.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Severance is the brainchild of newcomer Dan Erickson, whose script first came to notice after landing on the BloodList (a showcase for unproduced genre screenplays) in 2016.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Argott says the very idea of those multiple unproduced films became an entry point into their documentary.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2019
  • The Black List, an annual ranking of the most popular unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, has released its 2022 rankings — a list crawling with juicy biopics about superstar singers and sports world redemption tales.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • So maybe it’ll be considered in the traditional pop division… or best non-cast album for an unproduced musical, if the Grammys think to finally add that as a category.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Season 16 concluded with episode 21 as a makeshift season finale, as the pandemic cut production short, with four additional episodes left unproduced.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Every year like Hollywood clockwork, Franklin Leonard rounds up the best unproduced screenplays floating around various executives’ and producers’ desks in the hopes of rescuing them from limbo.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021

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