Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Barbie, a cultural phenomenon that became 2023's highest-grossing film at $1.45 billion worldwide. It's also got eight Oscar nominations, including for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach's screenplay, which A…

On her first feature film try, Celine Song struck gold with the time-hopping romantic drama Past Lives. A24’s semi-autobiographic pic netted two key nominations at this year's Oscars, for Best Picture and Song’s Original Screenplay — a huge coup for the tiny feature that debuted at last year's…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, the darkly comedic genre-bender penned by Tony McNamara that marks a reunion of the Greek filmmaker with McNamara and star Emma Stone after 2018’s Oscar-nominated The Favour…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s historical drama that was inspired loosely by Martin Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name set outside the walls of Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The A24 film…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson’s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival Everett's 2021 novel Erasure, American Fiction emerges as a hard-hitting commentary on identity…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Maestro, which is directed, co-written, produced by and stars Bradley Cooper. Cooper wrote the Maestro script with Spotlight Oscar winner Josh Singer. The former plays legendary conductor and…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Christopher Nolan's epic biographical thriller Oppenheimer. Based on American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Nolan wrote the script about…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with The Holdovers, Oscar winner Alexander Payne’s return to filmmaking after a six-year hiatus. The Holdovers, Payne's eighth feature, is a 1970s-set comedy centered around Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti)…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Neon's murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall. The Cannes Palme d'Or winner from French filmmaker Justine Triet (only the third woman ever to take that top prize) is co-written by Triet and Arthur Harari…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Killers of the Flower Moon, the Apple Original Films epic that sports the season’s biggest list of bona fides. Oscar winner Martin Scorsese directed the film, which he co-wrote with Oscar-winning…