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Scriptnotes on YouTube

May 31, 2025 News, Video

After 14 years, we’ve finally added a proper YouTube channel for Scriptnotes.

In addition to several of our most-loved episodes, we have shorter weekly videos drawn from past conversations. Here are the first two, focusing on Die Hard and Greta Gerwig’s approach to screenwriting.

In the obligatory parlance of YouTube, make sure to hit that like button and don’t forget to subscribe.

Introducing Highland Pro

March 4, 2025 Apps, Highland, News

Today, we’re launching Highland Pro. It’s the next generation of our flagship screenwriting app, now available on Mac, iPad and iPhone.

Here’s a video I made about it.

With Highland Pro, our mission is to keep you focused on your work. From its clean interface to innovative features like the shelf and /lookup, Highland is designed to help you avoid distractions and get things written.

I’m incredibly proud of Highland Pro and the tiny team who made it. Nima Yousefi does our coding. Dustin Bocks handles design. Chris Csont heads up support, while Daniel Sauvé-Rogan leads our marketing. Drew Marquardt and I tackle whatever else needs to be done, like the video above.

Highland Pro wouldn’t be nearly as good without our hundreds of beta testers. Thank you Team Highland!

Highland Pro is now available on the App Store worldwide, with a 30-day free trial. A single subscription covers all platforms. Try it today!

Featured Friday: Modern Anxieties

November 15, 2024 News

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at works that were made in response to the uncertainties of this current moment, and the myriad of ways writers can reflect and critique the world they live in.

Our collection includes:

  • BlacKkKlansman by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
  • Don’t Look Up by Adam McKay
  • First Reformed by Paul Schrader
  • Joker by Todd Phillips & Scott Silver
  • Parasite by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won
  • Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell
  • Red Rocket by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
  • She Said by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
  • Succession – “Pilot” by Jesse Armstrong
  • The Boys – “Pilot” by Eric Kripke
  • The Handmaid’s Tale – “Pilot” by Ilene Chaiken
  • The Post by Liz Hannah
  • Uncut Gems by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie
  • Us by Jordan Peele

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

Featured Friday: Sci-Fi Futurism

October 11, 2024 News

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 many ways writers have imagined our future, and the astonishing new technology, fashion, problems and ethical dilemmas that might come to pass.

Our collection includes:

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clark
  • Ad Astra by James Gray & Ethan Gross
  • Black Mirror – “San Junipero” by Charlie Brooker
  • Black Panther by Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole
  • Blade Runner by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples
  • Blade Runner 2049 by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green
  • Dune by Jon Spaihts and Dennis Villenuve and Eric Roth
  • Futurama – “Space Pilot 3000” by David X. Cohen & Matt Groening
  • Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
  • Her by Spike Jonze
  • Interstellar by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
  • Minority Report by Scott Frank
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation – “The Best of Both Worlds, Parts I & II” by Michael Piller
  • The Fifth Element by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen
  • The Martian by Drew Goddard
  • Total Recall by Ronald Shusett & Dan O’Bannon
  • WALL-E by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon

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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