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Featured Friday: Musicals

November 29, 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 modern movie musicals, and how songs can push emotions, characters and stories to new heights.

Our collection includes:

  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – “Josh Just Happens to Live Here!” by Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna
  • Cyrano by Erica Schmidt
  • Encanto by Charise Castro Smith & Jared Bush
  • In the Heights by Quiara Alegría Hudes
  • Into the Woods by James Lapine
  • La La Land by Damien Chazelle
  • Les Misérables by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer
  • Nine by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella
  • Rocketman by Lee Hall
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut by Trey Parker, Matt Stone & Pam Brady
  • Sweeney Todd by John Logan
  • The Color Purple by Marcus Gardley
  • The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Joel Schumacher
  • tick, tick…BOOM! by Steven Levenson
  • West Side Story by Tony Kushner

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

Featured Friday: Fish out of Water

November 22, 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 “fish out of water” stories, and how that simple conflict can generate layered characters, natural exposition, endless humor and nuanced themes.

Our collection includes:

  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery by Mike Meyers
  • Barbie by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
  • Coming to America by Eddie Murphy & Arsenio Hall & David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein
  • Hot Fuzz by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
  • Legally Blonde by Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith
  • Men in Black by Ed Solomon
  • Pleasantville by Gary Ross
  • Pretty Woman by J. F. Lawton
  • The Devil Wears Prada by Aline Brosh McKenna
  • The Heat by Katie Dippold
  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – “Kimmy Goes Outside!” by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock
  • Wonder Woman by Allan Heinberg
  • Zootopia by Jared Bush, Phil Johnston

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

Featured Friday: New Parents

November 8, 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 stories that explore the stress, anxiety, chaos and occasional joy that comes with being a new parent.

Our collection includes:

  • Bridget Jones’s Baby by Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson
  • Catastrophe – “Pilot” by Sharon Horgan & Rob Delaney
  • If Beale Street Could Talk by Barry Jenkins
  • Juno by Diablo Cody
  • Knocked Up by Judd Apatow
  • Modern Family – “Pilot” by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd
  • Raising Arizona by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • Raising Hope – “Happy Halloween” by Dan Coscino
  • SMILF – “Pilot” by Frankie Shaw
  • Tully by Diablo Cody
  • What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heather Hach

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

Featured Friday: Politics and Elections

November 1, 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 elections and politics can be used across genres to test a character’s true convictions, and how their choices affect the citizens they serve.

Our collection includes:

  • All The President’s Men by William Goldman
  • Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern
  • Election by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
  • Gaslit – “Willpower” by Robbie Pickering
  • House of Cards – “Chapter 1” by Beau Willimon
  • In the Loop by Jesse Armstrong & Simon Blackwell & Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche
  • Lincoln by Tony Kushner
  • Madam Secretary – “Pilot” by Barbara Hall
  • Milk by Dustin Lance Black
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Sidney Buchman
  • Napoleon Dynamite by Jared Hess & Jerusha Hess
  • The American President by Aaron Sorkin
  • The Diplomat – “Lambs in the Dark” by Debora Cahn
  • The Front Runner by Matt Bai & Jay Carson & Jason Reitman
  • The Ides of March by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
  • The Politician – “Pilot” by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk & Ian Brennan
  • The West Wing – “Pilot” by Aaron Sorkin
  • Veep – “Fundraiser” by Simon Blackwell and Armando Iannucci
  • Vice by Adam McKay

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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