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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!

Featured Friday: Social Realism

January 17, 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 how filmmakers use hyper-realistic depictions of contemporary issues to critique the power structures that govern our everyday lives.

Our collection includes:

  • Another Year by Mike Leigh
  • Hard Truths by Mike Leigh
  • Icebox by Daniel Sawka
  • Leave No Trace by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
  • Nebraska by Robert W. Nelson
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman
  • Nomadland by Chloé Zhao
  • Pariah by Dee Rees
  • Precious by Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • Roma by Alfonso Cuarón
  • Short Term 12 by Destin Daniel Cretton
  • Tangerine by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
  • The Florida Project by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
  • The Rider by Chloé Zhao
  • The Wrestler by Rob Siegel
  • Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini

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

Featured Friday: Teachers

January 10, 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 teachers as characters; how they can drive the transformation of their students, what the profession can illuminate about the teacher, and how they’re forced to confront real issues every day.

Our collection includes:

  • A.P. Bio – “Pilot” by Mike O’Brien
  • Abbott Elementary – “Pilot” by Quinta Brunson
  • Dead Poets Society by Tom Schulman
  • Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
  • English Teacher – “Pilot” by Brian Jordan Alvarez
  • Half Nelson by Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden
  • Mr. Corman – “Weekend” by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Mr. Holland’s Opus by Patrick Sheane Duncan
  • The Holdovers by David Hemingson
  • 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!

Featured Friday: Prison

January 3, 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 how stories of the incarcerated allow characters from all walks of life to interact, and how prisons as a location are able to accommodate many different genres and tones.

Our collection includes:

  • A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick
  • American History X by David McKenna
  • Black Bird – “Pilot” by Dennis Lehane
  • Brawl in Cell Block 99 by S. Craig Zahler
  • Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson
  • Escape at Dannemora – “Part 1” by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin
  • Get Hard by Jay Martel & Ian Roberts
  • I Love You Phillip Morris by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
  • Just Mercy by Destin Daniel Cretton & Andrew Lanham
  • Orange is the New Black – “Pilot” by Jenji Kohan
  • Sing Sing by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
  • The Green Mile by Frank Darabont
  • The Rock by David Weisberg & Douglas Cook and Mark Rosner
  • The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont

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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