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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!

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

This week, we look at at the many blood-draining Vampire stories to see how a sub-genre can continually reinvent itself in order to stay immortal.

Our collection includes:

• Blade by David S. Goyer
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer – “Welcome to the Hellmouth” by Joss Whedon
• Doctor Sleep by Mike Flanagan
• Dracula – “The Rules of the Beast” by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
• From Dusk till Dawn by Quentin Tarantino
• Interview with the Vampire – “In Throes of Increasing Wonder…” by Rolin Jones
• Let Me In by Matt Reeves
• Near Dark by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow
• Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch
• Shadow of the Vampire by Steven Katz
• The Lost Boys by Jeffrey Boam
• The Vampire Diaries – “Pilot” by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec
• True Blood – “Strange Love” by Alan Ball
• Twilight by Melissa Rosenberg
• Van Helsing by Stephen Sommers
• 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!

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 use the confines of a single day to their advantage, keeping characters constantly pushing against time and towards their goals.

Our collection includes:

• All is Lost by J.C. Chandor
• American Graffiti by George Lucas, Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck
• Before Midnight by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
• Before Sunrise by Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan
• Bodies Bodies Bodies by Kristen Roupenian
• Booksmart by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins
• Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater
• Die Hard by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza
• Dog Day Afternoon by Frank Pierson
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off by John Hughes
• Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
• Locke by Steven Knight
• Margin Call by J.C. Chandor
• Snowpiercer by Bong Joon-ho
• Superbad by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
• Tangerine by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
• Malcolm and Marie by Sam Levinson

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