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Featured Friday: New Year’s Eve

December 27, 2024 Weekend Read

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

This week, we say goodbye to 2024 with some favorite features that perfectly capture those last few days of the year. You survived ‘til ’25 — congratulations!

Our collection includes:

  • Fruitvale Station by Ryan Coogler
  • Phantom Thread by Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Strange Days by James Cameron & Jay Cocks
  • The Apartment by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
  • The Holdovers by David Hemingson
  • When Harry Met Sally… by Nora Ephron

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

Featured Friday: Fantasy Epics

December 20, 2024 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 fantasy epics use their wizards, world building and wonder to create their own kind of magic.

Our collection includes:

  • Game of Thrones – “Pilot” by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Steve Kloves
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 by Steve Kloves
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 by Steve Kloves
  • His Dark Materials – “Episode 1” by Jack Thorne
  • House of the Dragon – “The Heirs of the Dragon” by Ryan Condal
  • Labyrinth by Terry Jones
  • Onward by Dan Scanlon, Jason Headley & Keith Bunin
  • Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by George Lucas
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett
  • Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas
  • Stardust by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • The Wheel of Time – “Leavetaking” by Rafe Judkins
  • The Wizard of Oz by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
  • Willow by Bob Dolman

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

Featured Friday: Awards 2024

December 13, 2024 Weekend Read

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

This week, we ring in the FYC season with all the screenplays that have been released (so far) as part of studio award campaigns. We’ll be updating this collection as more scripts are made available!

Our collection includes:

  • A Complete Unknown by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
  • A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
  • All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia
  • Babygirl by Halina Reijn
  • Blink Twice by Zoë Kravitz & E.T. Feigenbaum
  • Blitz by Steve McQueen
  • Challengers by Justin Kuritzkes
  • Conclave by Peter Straughan
  • Daddio by Christy Hall
  • Deadpool & Wolverine by Ryan Reynolds & Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick & Zeb Wells & Shawn Levy
  • Dìdi by Sean Wang
  • Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts
  • Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
  • Fly Me to the Moon by Rose Gilroy
  • Gladiator II by David Scarpa
  • Heretic by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
  • His Three Daughters by Azazel Jacobs
  • Hit Man by Richard Linklater & Glen Powell
  • I’m Still Here by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega
  • Inside Out 2 by Meg LeFauve & Dave Holstein
  • Maria by Steven Knight
  • Nightbitch by Marielle Heller
  • Queer by Justin Kuritzkes
  • Red One by Chris Morgan
  • Saturday Night by Gil Kenan & Jason Reitman
  • September 5 by Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum
  • Sing Sing by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
  • The Apprentice by Gabriel Sherman
  • The Brutalist by Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
  • The Idea of You by Michael Showalter and Jennifer Westfeldt
  • The Last Showgirl by Kate Gersten
  • The Order by Zach Baylin
  • The Outrun by Nora Fingscheidt & Amy Liptrot
  • The Piano Lesson by Virgil Williams & Malcolm Washington
  • The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar
  • The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
  • The Wild Robot by Chris Sanders
  • Twisters by Mark L Smith
  • Unstoppable by Eric Champnella and Alex Harris and John Hindman

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

Featured Friday: Christmas in the Background

December 6, 2024 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 movies that are deliberately set at Christmastime, but have nothing to do with the holiday itself. If you’ve ever wondered, “Wait, is that a Christmas movie?” we’re probably featuring that script!

Our collection includes:

  • Batman Returns by Daniel Waters
  • Carol by Phyllis Nagy
  • Die Hard by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza
  • Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick & Frederic Raphael
  • Go by John August
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Steve Kloves
  • In Bruges by Martin McDonagh
  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Shane Black
  • L.A. Confidential by Brian Helgeland
  • Spencer by Steven Knight
  • Tangerine by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
  • The Apartment Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
  • The Green Knight by David Lowery

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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