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Featured Friday: Love Stinks

February 14, 2025 Weekend Read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we dump Valentines Day and focus on how most love stories end — heartbreak. Whether because of cheating, divorce, murder or just naturally drifting apart, these characters all know the pain of relationships not working out, and how annoying it is to be a stupid human being with a stupid heart!

Our collection includes:

  • (500) Days of Summer by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
  • Amour by Michael Haneke
  • Anora by Sean Baker
  • Before Midnight by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
  • Blood Simple by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • Blue Valentine by Derek Cianfrance & Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis
  • Call Me by Your Name by James Ivory
  • Celeste and Jesse Forever by Rashida Jones & Will McCormack
  • Crazy Stupid Love by Dan Fogelman
  • Crimson Peak by Matthew Robbins & Guillermo del Toro
  • Eileen by Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall by Jason Segel
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  • Grace and Frankie – “The End” by Marta Kauffman & Howard J. Morris
  • High Fidelity by D.V. De Vincentis, Steve Pink, & John Cusack
  • I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman
  • It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
  • John Tucker Must Die by Jeff Lowell
  • Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach
  • sex, lies and videotape by Steven Soderbergh
  • Swingers by Jon Favreau
  • The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou
  • What Lies Beneath by Clark Gregg
  • You – “Pilot” by Greg Berlanti & Sera Gamble

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

Featured Friday: Weaving Plotlines

February 7, 2025 Weekend Read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at ensemble movies with multiple plots that all add up to something bigger. It’s extremely difficult to balance, maintain momentum and bring it all together in the end, but looking at the screenplay can offer insights into how these tapestries are woven together.

Our collection includes:

  • American Graffiti by George Lucas, Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck
  • Babel by Guillermo Arriaga
  • Bad Times at the El Royale by Drew Goddard
  • Cloud Atlas by A. Wachowski, L. Wachowski, T. Tykwer
  • Crash by Paul Haggis & Robert Moresco
  • Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater
  • Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan
  • Go by John August
  • Happiness by Todd Solondz
  • Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
  • The Big Short by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
  • The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) by Noah Baumbach
  • Traffic by Stephen Gaghan

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

Featured Friday: 90’s Maximalism

January 31, 2025 Weekend Read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at those over-the-top explosive epics of the 90’s that pushed the limits of the form (and good taste), wore their hearts on their sleeves, and made movies bigger in every way.

Our collection includes:

  • Armageddon by Robert Roy Pool
  • Con Air by Scott Rosenberg
  • Face/Off by Mike Werb & Michael Colleary
  • The Fifth Element by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen
  • The Rock by David Weisberg & Douglas Cook and Mark Rosner
  • Titanic by James Cameron
  • Total Recall by Ronald Shusett & Dan O’Bannon
  • Wild Wild West by S. S. Wilson & Brent Maddock and Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seama
  • William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet by Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

Featured Friday: And the Nominees Are…

January 24, 2025 Weekend Read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we feature every script nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 97th Academy Awards.

Our collection includes:

  • A Complete Unknown by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
  • A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
  • Anora by Sean Baker
  • Conclave by Peter Straughan
  • Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
  • Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
  • September 5 by Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum
  • Sing Sing by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
  • The Brutalist by Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
  • The Substance by Coralie Fargeat

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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