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!

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!

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!

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!