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Recent Examples of screenwriter
It was recently identified as a complete story about his recurring character Pat Hobby, a dissolute, luckless Hollywood screenwriter.
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Erin Neil, New Yorker, 17 July 2025
Kaufmann, who promoted himself as a film producer and screenwriter, used his Rexal Ford alias to scout movie locations, including several rooftop terraces in Rome, Cascini said in a press conference last week announcing Kaufmann’s impending extradition to Rome.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
The screenwriter admits that fans just can’t get enough of the character, which has prompted many movies through the years.
—Jane Lacroix, People.com, 13 July 2025
Nope, that was what the screenwriter David S. Goyer himself told the Los Angeles Times back in 2005 about Warner Bros.’s previous aborted attempt to make this project happen.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
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Erin Neil, New Yorker, 17 July 2025
Kaufmann, who promoted himself as a film producer and screenwriter, used his Rexal Ford alias to scout movie locations, including several rooftop terraces in Rome, Cascini said in a press conference last week announcing Kaufmann’s impending extradition to Rome.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
The screenwriter admits that fans just can’t get enough of the character, which has prompted many movies through the years.
—Jane Lacroix, People.com, 13 July 2025
Nope, that was what the screenwriter David S. Goyer himself told the Los Angeles Times back in 2005 about Warner Bros.’s previous aborted attempt to make this project happen.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 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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Ullmann is right that, for a writer, precision is the minimum.—
Nadja Spiegelman,
New York Times,
23 July 2025
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An ayahuasca retreat might have been a more divine alternative to a trailer breakdown to promote the otherworldly Good Fortune, at least according to its writer, director, and star, Aziz Ansari.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 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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The 39th Firefly Art Fair will feature both new and returning artists showing paintings, pottery, ceramics, glass, basketry, jewelry, fiber art, mosaics, photography, pen and ink drawings, metal work and wood.—
Elaine Rewolinski,
jsonline.com,
22 July 2025
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Liam Lawson of New Zealand and Visa Cash App RB speaks of delight in the media pen during the F1 Grand Prix of Austria at Red Bull Ring on June 29, 2025 in Spielberg, Austria....—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 July 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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