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Recent Examples of screenwriter
For now, screenwriters and novelists aren’t at risk of losing their jobs.
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Haoran Chu, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
Jude Law makes his Star Wars debut in first Skeleton Crew trailer
Skeleton Crew was created by screenwriter Chris Ford and Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts (perhaps explaining why Destin Daniel Cretton is replacing Watts as director of the next Tom Holland Spider-Man movie).
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
With Sully, Eastwood and screenwriter Todd Komarnicki use the incident as a focal point to which the film keeps circling back, treating it as the few telling moments to which Sully’s moments have been building, and which would define the rest of his life.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
The screenwriter Peter Straughan and the director Edward Berger (whose previous movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination) have constructed a propulsive psychological thriller that doubles as a blatant election-year allegory.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Haoran Chu, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
Jude Law makes his Star Wars debut in first Skeleton Crew trailer
Skeleton Crew was created by screenwriter Chris Ford and Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts (perhaps explaining why Destin Daniel Cretton is replacing Watts as director of the next Tom Holland Spider-Man movie).
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
With Sully, Eastwood and screenwriter Todd Komarnicki use the incident as a focal point to which the film keeps circling back, treating it as the few telling moments to which Sully’s moments have been building, and which would define the rest of his life.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
The screenwriter Peter Straughan and the director Edward Berger (whose previous movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination) have constructed a propulsive psychological thriller that doubles as a blatant election-year allegory.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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As in the production chain, giving space to the talent of women and pushing for their inclusion in front of and behind the camera — as scriptwriters, directors, and cinematographers — is a public service duty and a strategic choice.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2024
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Understand first what Hollywood scriptwriters call the backstory: Intel for decades dominated the global semiconductor industry, designing and manufacturing leading-edge chips.BYGeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
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The humor, an integral part of the playwright’s flamboyant arsenal, is also missed.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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As if the venue weren’t gay enough, literati from playwright Jeremy O. Harris to Evan Ross Katz — the social-media-age Cindy Adams — are in attendance to toast the film.Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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For many older writers, minimalism becomes an increasingly vital part of their continued practice.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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The show is over-the-top melodrama, but writer and co-creator Taylor Sheridan obviously chose real-life conflicts in Montana and other western states to base the plot on.Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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The 2016 election and the COVID pandemic: the two major moments of the past eight years that are irresistible to dramatists but are notoriously tricky to get right.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
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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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In the warrant, authorities further allege that Blanchard bought the teen vape pens and alcoholic beverages and sent him money — up to $9,000 — several times on Cash App.Liam Quinn, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Following their assimilation from the oral tradition into cheerleaders of literacy, the muses are seen waving pens and quills, scrolls and manuscripts in ancient artworks.Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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