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Featured Friday: First Features

August 23, 2024 Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at those first screenplays that broke through, got made, and launched some of our favorite writers’ careers.

Our collection includes:

– **28 Days Later** by Alex Garland
– **A Few Good Men** by Aaron Sorkin
– **Badlands** by Terrence Malick
– **Blood Simple** by Joel and Ethan Coen
– **Bottle Rocket** by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
– **Cloverfield** by Drew Goddard
– **Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story** by Rawson Marshall Thurber
– **Eighth Grade** by Bo Burnham
– **Following** by Christopher Nolan
– **Fruitvale Station** by Ryan Coogler
– **Get Out** by Jordan Peele
– **Go** by John August
– **Gone Girl** by Gillian Flynn
– **Hereditary** by Ari Aster
– **Juno** by Diablo Cody
– **Kids** by Harmony Korine
– **Little Miss Sunshine** by Michael Arndt
– **Palm Springs** by Andy Siara
– **Pariah** by Dee Rees
– **Promising Young Woman** by Emerald Fennell
– **Reservoir Dogs** by Quentin Tarantino
– **Rocky** by Sylvester Stallone
– **Sense and Sensibility** by Emma Thompson
– **sex, lies and videotape** by Steven Soderbergh
– **Shaun of the Dead** by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
– **Sicario** by Taylor Sheridan
– **Sorry to Bother You** by Boots Riley
– **Submarine** by Richard Ayoade
– **Swingers** by Jon Favreau
– **The Babadook** by Jennifer Kent
– **The Post** by Liz Hannah
– **The Virgin Suicides** by Sofia Coppola
– **The Wedding Date** by Dana Fox
– **The Witch** by Robert Eggers
– **Whiplash** by Damien Chazelle

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

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