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Recent Examples of scriptwriter
Understand first what Hollywood scriptwriters call the backstory: Intel for decades dominated the global semiconductor industry, designing and manufacturing leading-edge chips.
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Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
Popular on Variety The scriptwriters are Lazarov, Ekaterina Churilova and Simeon Ventsislavov.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Sep. 2024
The film is directed by Shiraishi Kazuya from a decades-old screenplay by the late, great scriptwriter Kasahara Kazuo (Japanese Yakuza, Battles Without Honor and Humanity).
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
Lillis worked for a time as a scriptwriter, turning in treatments of episodes of anime series like Boogiepop Phantom and K.O. Beast in the early 2000s.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2024
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Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
Popular on Variety The scriptwriters are Lazarov, Ekaterina Churilova and Simeon Ventsislavov.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Sep. 2024
The film is directed by Shiraishi Kazuya from a decades-old screenplay by the late, great scriptwriter Kasahara Kazuo (Japanese Yakuza, Battles Without Honor and Humanity).
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
Lillis worked for a time as a scriptwriter, turning in treatments of episodes of anime series like Boogiepop Phantom and K.O. Beast in the early 2000s.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scriptwriter
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At the same time, depicting a hijabi, a Muslim woman who wears a head covering, or a hijab, also posed challenges, even for screenwriter Marianna Ölmez, herself a Muslim, Verhoef added.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Much of the context for Ko Gyeom’s motivations are held for later episodes, which is emblematic of screenwriter Lee Na-eun’s (Our Beloved Summer) signature slow-pace structure.—
Kayti Burt,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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Editor’s note: This opinion essay is being published anonymously because the writer fears for their job.—
Special to the Sun Sentinel,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman is a staff writer who covers the Edmonton Oilers for The Athletic.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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Alloway is co-adapting the feature with playwright Lily Houghton off the latter’s play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2025
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company ranks as one of the nation’s premier ensemble theater companies with 49 members who are among the top actors, playwrights and directors in the field.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 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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Once the hairs are standing up and look a little funny, fill in any sparse areas with your fave eyebrow pen or pencil.—
Elizabeth Denton,
StyleCaster,
14 Feb. 2025
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Future administrations can easily reverse its reforms with the stroke of a pen.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Orange County Register,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Scriptwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriptwriter. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.
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