screenplay
noun
screen·play
ˈskrēn-ˌplā 
: the script and often shooting directions of a story prepared for movie production
Examples of screenplay in a Sentence
an award for best screenplay
each actor will be given a copy of the screenplay to study
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Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties, and the screenplay was co-written by longtime Martin Scorsese collaborator Jay Cocks.
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
According to a recent report from Deadline published on Tuesday, December 10, the main cast of the films would return along with John Hamburg — the co-author of all three movies in the franchise and producer of Little Fockers — to write the screenplay for the upcoming movie.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
That detachment leaves something of a hole where the emotional center should be in the screenplay by Mangold and Jay Cocks.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
Once the screenplay was done, Reijn worked out all of the blocking firsthand, on location.
—Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
According to a recent report from Deadline published on Tuesday, December 10, the main cast of the films would return along with John Hamburg — the co-author of all three movies in the franchise and producer of Little Fockers — to write the screenplay for the upcoming movie.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
That detachment leaves something of a hole where the emotional center should be in the screenplay by Mangold and Jay Cocks.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
Once the screenplay was done, Reijn worked out all of the blocking firsthand, on location.
—Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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screenplay
noun
screen·play
ˈskrēn-ˌplā
: the written form of a story prepared for film production
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