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(authorship) A script for a movie or a television show.
Examples of screenplay in a Sentence
We're working on a feature-length screenplay, tentatively entitled The Third Spell about a young widow and her ten-year-old daughter who live in colonial America in 1706.
If I send you my movie screenplay can you help me get it made?
Since 1997, Damon has been nominated for over 50 official industry awards, 15 of which he won, including his shared Best Screenplay Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work as an actor in Good Will Hunting.
Of the three films, The Royal Tenenbaums was nominated for both an Academy Award in the Best Writing category and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Screenplay.
Shortly after the fated meeting and subsequent friendship of Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, Farvreau began working on the screenplay of the soon-to-be-hit-movie Swingers.
A screenplay for a video game is similar to a movie script except you may have to insert special branching scenes depending on how many choices a player has at any one point.
Scribe Ehren Kruger, who is teaming with Bobker and helmer Iain Softley on Skeleton Key for Universal Pictures, penned the Grimm screenplay.
You really can write and sell a successful screenplay - but you do need to understand how screenplays are structured, presented and sold.
Article continues The chances of a woman winning best screenplay are a bit better.
Using the original screenplay - simply updated - is inspired.
He sets his sights on writing a successful screenplay, but writer's block strikes.
Seconds later Crash bags its second award of the night, scooping the sister honor for best original screenplay.
In 2002 her first short screenplay, Frozen Assets, was selected for production via the Short Film Factory screenwriting scheme.
The first thing I want you to do is to realize that your feature screenplay is not, repeat NOT, ready to go.
It's really just structural stuff, stemming from my failure to tighten up the treatment before we began the screenplay.
The central character is nicely underplayed by Emma Thompson - who also did the screenplay - despite a grotesque disguise.
That 's sort of the way I read a screenplay.
She has also written the screenplay for the film, in which she also appears.
Dennis Potter wrote the screenplay for the movie too.
He sets his sights on writing a successful screenplay, but writer 's block strikes.
To his left sits John Hodge, screenplay writer.
I am open to ideas and any help as far as screenplay writing goes might be neccessary.
Beauty also missed out on the original screenplay award, which went to Charlie Kaufman for Being John Malkovich.
It 's really just structural stuff, stemming from my failure to tighten up the treatment before we began the screenplay.
For teenagers who love the movies or theater, creating a screenplay and filming it can provide hours of entertainment.
In 1997, Affleck and his good friend Matt Damon won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting.
The Merrows were kind enough to answer the following interview questions about their screenplay win and upcoming film, A Piece of Pie.
The prize win for the 2006 New Mexico Governor's Cup Short Screenplay Competition was for their combined work on A Piece of Pie.
It has some nice twists and surprises.Incidentally, the cafe in the screenplay is based on a real cafe in Pie Town called the Pie-O-Neer.
In a screenplay, he can't -- it's all visual.
Our second short screenplay was entitled, Ooh La La.
It was the first runner up in the Duke City Shootout, a screenplay competition here in New Mexico.
Ooh La La also recently won an honorable mention in the Hollywood Creative Connection Short Comedy Screenplay Competition.
Did you imagine that your screenplay would someday make it to the big screen?
The next step was to "pitch" our screenplay to a panel of film experts in Santa Fe.
There are quite a few differences between the screenplay and the completed film.
For example, in the screenplay the main character, Pete, is hitch-hiking and gets a ride from a man in a pick-up truck.
Some of the differences between the screenplay and the film were for "artistic" purposes.
Sometimes an idea is just an idea, and it requires us both to turn it into a screenplay.
We just finished a short screenplay entitled Playa Fantasma about a haunted beach in the Caribbean.
Tina Fey took her writing talents to the big screen when she penned the screenplay for the 2004 film Mean Girls, a comedy starring Lindsay Lohan.
The 2007 summer hit, Superbad, is said to have been inspired by Rogen and Goldberg's friendship and Rogen co-wrote the screenplay when he was just 13.
Rogen's latest co-written screenplay is for the upcoming film Drillbit Taylor, starring Owen Wilson.
He also directed, produced, and penned the screenplay for the highly controversial film The Passion of the Christ in 2004.
After several small roles in films such as Mystic Pizza, he and his friend Ben Affleck began shopping around an original screenplay they had written together.
The screenplay eventually became Good Will Hunting, in which both actors also starred.
The movie garnered nine Academy Award nominations and Affleck and Damon won for Best Original Screenplay.
Hopper also starred and directed the film Easy Rider for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for "Best Original Screenplay."
In 2003, The Pick of Destiny screenplay was written.
For most video games, especially RPGs, you may need a screenplay.