Sentence examples for old screenplays from inspiring English sources

A visitor to the HBO Web site, for example, could run a streaming video of "The Sopranos," conduct an interactive search of characters, look up old screenplays, watch previous episodes (complete with ads), purchase Sopranos-related products, even participate in promotional events with sponsors.

It seems much more likely that those events were merely an excuse to dig into the drawer and resurrect an old screenplay that had been sitting there for years in the faint hope of starting a trend.

His own work continues "slowly": he goes to his desk each morning at 10.30am; and Hytner has an old screenplay of his, once written for John Schlesinger but never made, that might turn into something.

On the plane over I had finished reading an old screenplay for Your Highness.

It's a very different beast from that old screenplay, but I hope the better for it.

"I found out that I was born of the strictest aversion to work," says Smilovic, now 32, with his decade-old screenplay hitting theaters as "Lucky Number Slevin" this past weekend in the No. 5 spot.

Filmmaker Ted Newsom filed a lawsuit Monday accusing Sony Corp.'s Columbia Pictures of illegally using his 17-year-old screenplay as the basis for "Spider-Man," a live-action movie released last year that took in more than $400 million in the U.S.

No, these aren't old Mel Brooks screenplays that never reached fruition.

Clooney said this about an old Bannon screenplay: "Now, if he'd somehow managed miraculously to get that thing produced, he'd still be in Hollywood, still making movies and licking my a to get me to do one of his stupid-a screenplays". So much for Midwestern humility.

After Rivette had later success with La Belle Noiseuse and Va Savoir in the 1990s, he revisited his older unproduced screenplays.

In this light, William Goldman's tally-ho-old-boy screenplay begins to sound quite convincing.