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Featured Friday: Writers

March 7, 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 celebrate the release of Highland Pro with stories about the exhilarating stress and satisfaction of being a writer.

Our collection includes:

  • 30 Rock – “Tracy Does Conan” by Tina Fey
  • Adaptation by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
  • Almost Famous by Cameron Crowe
  • American Fiction by Cord Jefferson
  • Barton Fink by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
  • Bored to Death – “Pilot” by Jonathan Ames
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
  • Castle – “Flowers for Your Grave” by Andrew W. Marlowe
  • Mank by Jack Fincher
  • Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
  • Misery by William Goldman
  • Murder, She Wrote – “Incident in Lot #7” by J. Michael Straczynski
  • Poetic Justice by John Singleton
  • Ruby Sparks by Zoe Kazan
  • Saving Mr. Banks by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith
  • Sideways by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
  • Trumbo by John McNamara

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

Featured Friday: Puzzle Boxes

February 28, 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 puzzle box series to see how they craft their mind-bending mysteries, use their unknowns to heighten character drama, and structure clues to keep the audience dying to know what the hell is really going on.

Our collection includes:

  • Lost – “Pilot”
  • Severance – “The We We Are”
  • The Leftovers – “Pilot”
  • The Man in the High Castle – “Pilot”
  • Twin Peaks – “Northwest Passage”
  • Westworld – “The Bicameral Mind”
  • Yellowjackets – “Pilot”

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

Featured Friday: Cults

February 21, 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 the destructive power of cults, how they can disrupt and alter our characters, and the charismatic, megalomaniacal leaders that wield their power.

Our collection includes:

  • Hereditary by Ari Aster
  • Mandy by Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin
  • Midsommar by Ari Aster
  • Strange Angel – “Augurs of Spring” by Mark Heyman
  • Suspiria by David Kajganich
  • The Following – “Pilot” by Kevin Williamson
  • The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
  • The Path – “Pilot” by Jessica Goldberg
  • The Wolf of Wall Street by Terence Winter
  • Waco – “Chapter 1: The Strangers Across the Street” by John Erick Dowdle & Drew Dowdle

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

Featured Friday: Love Stinks

February 14, 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 dump Valentines Day and focus on how most love stories end — heartbreak. Whether because of cheating, divorce, murder or just naturally drifting apart, these characters all know the pain of relationships not working out, and how annoying it is to be a stupid human being with a stupid heart!

Our collection includes:

  • (500) Days of Summer by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
  • Amour by Michael Haneke
  • Anora by Sean Baker
  • Before Midnight by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
  • Blood Simple by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • Blue Valentine by Derek Cianfrance & Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis
  • Call Me by Your Name by James Ivory
  • Celeste and Jesse Forever by Rashida Jones & Will McCormack
  • Crazy Stupid Love by Dan Fogelman
  • Crimson Peak by Matthew Robbins & Guillermo del Toro
  • Eileen by Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall by Jason Segel
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  • Grace and Frankie – “The End” by Marta Kauffman & Howard J. Morris
  • High Fidelity by D.V. De Vincentis, Steve Pink, & John Cusack
  • I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman
  • It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
  • John Tucker Must Die by Jeff Lowell
  • Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach
  • sex, lies and videotape by Steven Soderbergh
  • Swingers by Jon Favreau
  • The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou
  • What Lies Beneath by Clark Gregg
  • You – “Pilot” by Greg Berlanti & Sera Gamble

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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