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 teachers as characters; how they can drive the transformation of their students, what the profession can illuminate about the teacher, and how they’re forced to confront real issues every day.

Our collection includes:

• A.P. Bio – “Pilot” by Mike O’Brien
• Abbott Elementary – “Pilot” by Quinta Brunson
• Dead Poets Society by Tom Schulman
• Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
• English Teacher – “Pilot” by Brian Jordan Alvarez
• Half Nelson by Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden
• Mr. Corman – “Weekend” by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Mr. Holland’s Opus by Patrick Sheane Duncan
• The Holdovers by David Hemingson
• Whiplash by Damien Chazelle

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 stories of the incarcerated allow characters from all walks of life to interact, and how prisons as a location are able to accommodate many different genres and tones.

Our collection includes:

• A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick
• American History X by David McKenna
• Black Bird – “Pilot” by Dennis Lehane
• Brawl in Cell Block 99 by S. Craig Zahler
• Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson
• Escape at Dannemora – “Part 1” by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin
• Get Hard by Jay Martel & Ian Roberts
• I Love You Phillip Morris by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
• Just Mercy by Destin Daniel Cretton & Andrew Lanham
• Orange is the New Black – “Pilot” by Jenji Kohan
• Sing Sing by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
• The Green Mile by Frank Darabont
• The Rock by David Weisberg & Douglas Cook and Mark Rosner
• The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont

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 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!

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!