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Featured Friday: Awards 2024

December 13, 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 ring in the FYC season with all the screenplays that have been released (so far) as part of studio award campaigns. We’ll be updating this collection as more scripts are made available!

Our collection includes:

  • A Complete Unknown by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
  • A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
  • All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia
  • Babygirl by Halina Reijn
  • Blink Twice by Zoë Kravitz & E.T. Feigenbaum
  • Blitz by Steve McQueen
  • Challengers by Justin Kuritzkes
  • Conclave by Peter Straughan
  • Daddio by Christy Hall
  • Deadpool & Wolverine by Ryan Reynolds & Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick & Zeb Wells & Shawn Levy
  • Dìdi by Sean Wang
  • Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts
  • Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
  • Fly Me to the Moon by Rose Gilroy
  • Gladiator II by David Scarpa
  • Heretic by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
  • His Three Daughters by Azazel Jacobs
  • Hit Man by Richard Linklater & Glen Powell
  • I’m Still Here by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega
  • Inside Out 2 by Meg LeFauve & Dave Holstein
  • Maria by Steven Knight
  • Nightbitch by Marielle Heller
  • Queer by Justin Kuritzkes
  • Red One by Chris Morgan
  • Saturday Night by Gil Kenan & Jason Reitman
  • September 5 by Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum
  • Sing Sing by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
  • The Apprentice by Gabriel Sherman
  • The Brutalist by Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
  • The Idea of You by Michael Showalter and Jennifer Westfeldt
  • The Last Showgirl by Kate Gersten
  • The Order by Zach Baylin
  • The Outrun by Nora Fingscheidt & Amy Liptrot
  • The Piano Lesson by Virgil Williams & Malcolm Washington
  • The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar
  • The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
  • The Wild Robot by Chris Sanders
  • Twisters by Mark L Smith
  • Unstoppable by Eric Champnella and Alex Harris and John Hindman

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

Featured Friday: Christmas in the Background

December 6, 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 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!

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!

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