More free FYC screenplays - Milk, Burn After Reading, Revolutionary Road, Gran Torino, Benjamin Button, The Visitor, Kung Fu Panda, and more!

Again, all of these are thanks to the amazing SimplyScripts.

Burn After Reading - by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - by Eric Roth

Frozen River - by Courtney Hunt

Gran Torino - by Nick Schenk

Kung Fu Panda - by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger

Last Chance Harvey - by Joel Hopkins

Milk - by Dustin Lance Black

The Reader - by David Hare

Revolutionary Road - by Justine Haythe

RocknRolla - by Guy Richie

Sex and the City - by Michael Patrick King

The Visitor - by Tom McCarthy

Check out SimplyScripts or our own posts here , here and here for more free screenplay downloads, including Dark Knight, Rachel Getting Married, and Synecdoche, NY.

What, When, Where this Weekend - Wendy and Lucy, Gran Torino, Doubt, The Day the Earth Stood Still

What, When, Where is a weekly guide to select screenings, discussions and events in the NYC-area of interest to screenwriters.

- Kelly Reichardt is at Film Forum talking about Wendy and Lucy tonight and Friday...

- Fellini's classic Amarcord is wrapping up its run at Film Forum...

- ...while Bergman's five-plus hour masterpiece Fanny and Alexander is opening for a limited time at the IFC Center. Each half requires a ticket, but it's well worth it just to see this on the big screen.

- Read the Black List yet?

Opening this week...

WENDY AND LUCY, written by Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt, dir. by Kelly Reichardt


Premise: A woman's life is derailed en route to a potentially lucrative summer job. When her car breaks down, and her dog is taken to the pound, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she is led through a series of increasingly dire economic decisions.

Playing: Film Forum

I've been hyped about this one for months - still hyped. See me shaking with excitement here and here.

DOUBT, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley

Premise: Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality and authority.


GRAN TORINO, written by Nick Schenk and Dave Johannson, dir. by Clint Eastwood

Premise: Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.

Playing: All over.

This could possibly be Eastwood's last film as an actor? That's hard to imagine. Either way, I'll stand by his directing work. Film School Rejects has their review over here.


THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, written by David Scarpa, dir. by Scott Derrickson

Premise: A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

Playing: All over.

The Writing Wire for 10/27

All the news that's worth linking to:

• R.I.P. Tony Hillerman.

• The Onion AV Club on the many kinds of vampires on television and in movies.

• The Miami Herald's Between the Covers book blog asks: Should critics be required to read the entire book? Um, yeah...

• The L.A. Times Jacket Copy blog on an unlikely bestseller. And it involves cats.

• Rolling Stone has a sneak peek at Cobain Unseen, a new bio of the late singer.

• PoeWar explains how to build better conflict when writing a novel.

• Advertising Age says what we've all been thinking: Twitter sucks and should die.

• New York Magazine's Vulture blog discusses the trailer to Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino.

• io9 on sci-fi writers' posthumous works.

• And, in what is becoming a strange tradition here at TWW, we close out with some zombie news: PopMatters on the zombie phenomenon, and io9 posts pictures from Pittsburgh's Zombie Fest. Scary.