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Movie Magic Screenwriter is a
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program sold by
Write Brothers Write Brothers, Inc. is an American computer software publisher founded in 1982 by Stephen Greenfield and Chris Huntley as Screenplay Systems. The company's first program was Scriptor, the world's first screenplay formatter. The company's progra ...
to format
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History

Stephen Greenfield and Chris Huntley created Scriptor, one of the earliest screenplay writing programs, that worked by converting wordprcessor documents into screenplay style. The program's importance was highlighted by an
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for technical achievement in 1994. Scriptor later purchased ScriptThing, another screenwriting program, which was combined into Movie Magic Screenwriter. The program was considered an industry standard, along with Final Draft. The Mac version of Screenwriter won a
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Editor's Choice Award for the year 2000. From 2003 to 2006, Screenwriter was the script-writing team's preferred tool on the popular BBC series
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See also

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List of screenwriting software Screenwriting software are word processors specialized to the task of writing screenplays. Overview Features While add-ins and macros for word processors, such as Script Wizard for Microsoft Word, can be used to write screenplays, the need f ...


References


External links

* {{Official website , http://www.screenplay.com
Write Brothers, Inc.
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