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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!

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 monster movies use their creatures to express and exploit our deepest fears.

Our collection includes:

• A Quiet Place by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
• Aliens by James Cameron
• An American Werewolf in London by John Landis
• Attack the Block by Joe Cornish
• Cloverfield by Drew Goddard
• Crawl by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen
• Godzilla (2014) by D. Callaham
• IT by Chase Palmer & CJ Fukunaga
• It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
• Jaws by Peter Benchley
• Jurassic Park by David Koepp
• King Kong by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
• No One Will Save You by Brian Duffield
• Nope by Jordan Peele
• Prey by Patrick Aison
• The Babadook by Jennifer Kent
• The Fly by David Cronenberg and Charles Edward Pogue
• The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor
• The Terminator by James Cameron
• Under the Skin by Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer

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

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 haunted houses trap your characters inside, force them to cozy up to some terrifying spirits, and use fear as a catalyst for change.

Our collection includes:

• American Horror Story – “Pilot” by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk
• Barbarian by Zach Cregger
• Beetlejuice by Warren Skaaren and Michael McDowell
• Ghosts (US) – “Pilot” by Joe Port & Joe Wiseman
• Insidious by Leigh Whannell
• Poltergeist by Steven Spielberg
• The Conjuring by the Hayes Brothers
• The Haunting of Hill House – “Steven Sees a Ghost” by Mike Flanagan

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