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Featured Friday: Dysfunctional Families

October 4, 2024 News, 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 how dysfunctional families are portrayed across genres, and how they use specificity to articulate the universal condition of having a weird relationship with your folks. Our collection includes: A Serious Man […]

Featured Friday: Organized Crime

September 20, 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 the operatic conflicts and power struggles of organized crime stories, what makes their anti-heroes so compelling, and why as far back as we can remember we always wanted to be a […]

Featured Friday: Period Television

September 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 look at TV series set long ago and the many ways writers can use period settings to elevate their storytelling. Our collection includes: Bridgerton – “Diamond of the First Water” Chernobyl – “1:23:45” […]

Featured Friday: Curses

September 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 how curses can be used as supernatural retribution, force characters to confront the worst parts of themselves, and how breaking them can drive the cursed to grow and change. Our collection […]

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