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Featured Friday: First Features

August 23, 2024 Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at those first screenplays that broke through, got made, and launched some of our favorite writers’ careers.

Our collection includes:

– **28 Days Later** by Alex Garland
– **A Few Good Men** by Aaron Sorkin
– **Badlands** by Terrence Malick
– **Blood Simple** by Joel and Ethan Coen
– **Bottle Rocket** by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
– **Cloverfield** by Drew Goddard
– **Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story** by Rawson Marshall Thurber
– **Eighth Grade** by Bo Burnham
– **Following** by Christopher Nolan
– **Fruitvale Station** by Ryan Coogler
– **Get Out** by Jordan Peele
– **Go** by John August
– **Gone Girl** by Gillian Flynn
– **Hereditary** by Ari Aster
– **Juno** by Diablo Cody
– **Kids** by Harmony Korine
– **Little Miss Sunshine** by Michael Arndt
– **Palm Springs** by Andy Siara
– **Pariah** by Dee Rees
– **Promising Young Woman** by Emerald Fennell
– **Reservoir Dogs** by Quentin Tarantino
– **Rocky** by Sylvester Stallone
– **Sense and Sensibility** by Emma Thompson
– **sex, lies and videotape** by Steven Soderbergh
– **Shaun of the Dead** by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
– **Sicario** by Taylor Sheridan
– **Sorry to Bother You** by Boots Riley
– **Submarine** by Richard Ayoade
– **Swingers** by Jon Favreau
– **The Babadook** by Jennifer Kent
– **The Post** by Liz Hannah
– **The Virgin Suicides** by Sofia Coppola
– **The Wedding Date** by Dana Fox
– **The Witch** by Robert Eggers
– **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](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

Featured Friday: Spies & Secret Agents

August 2, 2024 Apps, Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we enter the clandestine world of spies and secret agents to see how their writers use action, tension and character to keep us on the edge of our seats.

Our collection includes:

– **Argo** by Chris Terrio
– **Bridge of Spies** by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
– **Burn After Reading** by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
– **Charlie’s Angels** by Ed Solomon & Ryan Rowe and John August
– **Hanna** by Seth Lochhead and David Farr
– **Killing Eve – “Nice Face”** by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
– **Kingsman: The Secret Service** by Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn
– **Mission: Impossible** by David Koepp and Robert Towne
– **Mission: Impossible – Fallout** by Christopher McQuarrie
– **Mr. & Mrs. Smith – “First Date”** by Donald Glover & Francesca Sloane
– **Skyfall** by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan
– **The Americans – “Pilot”** by Joe Weisberg
– **The Bourne Identity** by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron
– **The Debt** by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan
– **The Night Manager – “Episode 1”** by David Farr
– **The Spy Who Dumped Me** by Susanna Fogel & David Iserson
– **Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy** by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
– **True Lies** by James Cameron
– **Turn: Washington’s Spies – “Pilot”** by Craig Silverstein & Mitchell Akselrad

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

Featured Friday: Emmy Nominees

July 26, 2024 Apps, Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at the series nominated across all categories at the upcoming 76th Emmy Awards. (In some cases, we’re using the pilot, so you don’t worry about spoilers for later seasons.)

Our collection includes:

– **3 Body Problem – “Countdown”** by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss & Alexander Woo
– **Abbott Elementary – “Pilot”** by Quinta Brunson
– **All the Light We Cannot See – “Episode 1”** by Steven Knight
– **Baby Reindeer – “Episode 1”** by Richard Gadd
– **Curb Your Enthusiasm – “Funkhouser’s Crazy Sister”** by Larry David
– **Fargo – “The Tragedy of the Commons”** by Noah Hawley
– **Fellow Travelers – “You’re Wonderful”** by Ron Nyswaner
– **Girls5eva – “Pilot”** by Meredith Scardino
– **Griselda – “Paradise Lost”** by Doug Miro and Giovanna Sarquis & Ingrid Escajeda
– **Hacks – “There Is No Line”** by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky
– **Lessons in Chemistry – “Introduction to Chemistry”** by Lee Eisenberg
– **Mr. & Mrs. Smith – “A Break-Up”** by Donald Glover & Francesca Sloane
– **Only Murders in the Building – “True Crime”** by Steve Martin & John Hoffman
– **Palm Royale – “Maxine Goes to Palm Beach”** by Abe Sylvia
– **Reservation Dogs – “Deer Lady”** by Sterlin Harjo
– **Ripley – “I – A Hard Man to Find”** by Steven Zaillian
– **Shōgun – “Anjin”** by Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks
– **The Bear – “Fishes”** by Christopher Storer & Joanna Calo
– **The Crown – “Sleep, Dearie Sleep”** by Peter Morgan
– **The Gentlemen – “Refined Aggression”** by Guy Ritchie & Matthew Read
– **The Morning Show – “In the Dark Night of the Soul It’s Always 3:30 in the Morning”** by Kerry Ehrin and Jay Carson
– **The Other Two – “Pilot”** by Chris Kelly & Sarah Schneider
– **The Righteous Gemstones – “Pilot”** by Danny McBride
– **True Detective: Night Country – “Part 6”** by Issa López
– **What We Do in the Shadows – “Pilot”** by Jemaine Clement

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

Featured Friday: Childhood Escapism

July 19, 2024 Apps, Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at stories told through the lens of a child’s imagination, and how those fantastical fictions can help them overcome real-life adversity.

Our collection includes:

– **A Little Princess** by Richard LaGravenese
– **A Monster Calls** by Patrick Ness
– **Beasts of the Southern Wild** by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
– **Coraline** by Henry Selick
– **Heavenly Creatures** by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson
– **Pan’s Labyrinth** by Guillermo del Toro
– **The Secret Garden** by Caroline Thompson
– **The Wizard of Oz** by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
– **Where the Wild Things Are** by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

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