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42 - July 9, 2012 double blue revised draft script by Brian Helgeland - hosted by: Warner Bros - in pdf format

The life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.


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All Is Lost - February 28, 2011 unspecified draft script by J. C. Chandor - hosted by: RoadSide Attractions - in pdf format

After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.


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American Hustle - undated, unspecified draft script by Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell - hosted by: Sony Pictures - in pdf format

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

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The Armstrong Lie - full film transcript by Alex Gibney - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

A documentary chronicling sports legend Lance Armstrong's improbable rise and ultimate fall from grace.



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August: Osage County - undated, unspecified draft script by Tracy Letts - hosted by: The Weinstein Company - in pdf format

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

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Before Midnight - September 1, 2012 unspecified draft script by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters, but have spent a summer in Greece on the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

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The Bling Ring - March 16, 2012 Blue Revised Shooting script by Sophia Coppola - hosted by: A24Awards - in pdf format

Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.


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The Blue Umbrella - undated, unspecified draft script directed by Saschka Unseld - hosted by: Disney - in pdf format

Amidst the rain in a singing city, two umbrellas-one blue, one not-fall eternally in love.



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The Butler - undated, unspecified draft script by Danny Strong - hosted by: The Weinstein Company - in pdf format

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

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Captain Phillips - December 9, 2010 draft script by Billy Ray - hosted by: Sony Pictures - in pdf format

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

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The Croods - December 12, 2012 unspecified draft script by Kirk DeMicco & Chris Sanders - hosted by: Dreamworks - in pdf format

The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures -- and their outlook is changed forever.

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Dallas Buyers Club - December 2, 2011 Green revised draft script by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack - hosted by: Focus Guilds - in pdf format

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.

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Despicable Me 2 - undated 'Cinco & Ken' draft script by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio - hosted by: Universal Pictures - in pdf format

While Gru, the ex-supervillain is adjusting to family life and an attempted honest living in the jam business, a secret Arctic laboratory is stolen. The Anti-Villain League decides it needs an insider's help and recruits Gru in the investigation.

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Enough Said - undated, unspecified draft script by Nicole Holofcener - hosted by: Fox Searchlight - in pdf format

A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband.



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The Fifth Estate - undated, unspecified draft script by Josh Singer - hosted by: Wikileaks - in pdf format

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

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Frozen - September 23, 2013 unspecified draft script by Jennifer Lee - hosted by: Disney - in pdf format

Fearless optimist Anna teams up with Kristoff in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter.

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Fruitville Station - undated, unspecified draft script by Ryan Coogler - hosted by: The Weinstein Company - in pdf format

The purportedly true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.


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Gravity - May 29, 2012 draft script by Alfonso Cuaron & Jonas Cuaron - hosted by: Warner Bros - in pdf format

Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.

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The Great Gatsby - undated, unspecified draft script by Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce (based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald) - hosted by: Warner Bros - in pdf format

A Midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor.



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Her - final draft script by Spike Jonze - hosted by: Warner Bros - in pdf format

A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.

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Inside Llewyn Davis - undated, unspecified script by Joel & Ethan Coen - hosted by: You Know, For The Kids - in pdf format

Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.

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The Invisible Woman - June 12, 2012 Blue Revised final shooting script by Abi Morgan - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.


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Kill Your Darlings - Undated Final Shooting draft script by John Krokidas and Austin Bunn - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.


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Labor Day - undated, Blue Shooting draft script by Jason Reitman (based on the novel by Joyce Maynard) - hosted by: Paramountguilds - in pdf format

Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

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Lone Survivor - final draft script by Peter Berg (based on the book by Marcus Luttrell) - hosted by: Universal Pictures - in pdf format

Based on the failed June 28, 2005 mission "Operation Red Wings". Four members of SEAL Team 10 were tasked with the mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shahd. Marcus Luttrell was the only member of his team to survive.

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Monster's University - undated, unspecified draft script by Daniel Gerson & Robert L. Baird and Dan Scanlon - hosted by: Disney - in pdf format

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn't stand each other. "Monsters University" unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.

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Mud - September 16, 2011 shooting draft script by Jeff Nichols - hosted by: RoadSide Attractions - in pdf format

Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.


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Nebraska - October 15, 2012 unspecified draft script by Robert W. Nelson - hosted by: Paramount - in pdf format

"NEBRASKA" is a father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and has scores to settle. Told with deadpan humor and a unique visual style, it's ultimately the story of a son trying to penetrate his impenetrable father.

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One Chance - undated, unspecified draft script by Justin Zackham - hosted by: The Weinstein Company - in pdf format

The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- "Britain's Got Talent".

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The Past - September 2013 Shooting Draft script by Asghar Farhadi (translated by Simindokht Dehghani & Massoumeh Lahidji) - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

Coming back to accomplish the divorce procedure, Ahmad an Iranian man, arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters from her previous marriage. He notices his ex is in a relationship with an Arab named Samir who also has a son and a wife in a coma. The relationship of the older daughter and her mother is in deterioration because the daughter thinks her mother is the cause of Samir's wife comatose state. The affairs get more complicated when the older daughter discloses something heinous she has done.

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Philomena - undated, unspecified draft script by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Based on the Book By Martin Sixsmith) - hosted by: The Weinstein Company - in pdf format

A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.

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The Place Beyond the Pines - September 26, 2013 final draft script by Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio & Darius Marder - hosted by: Focus Guilds - in pdf format

A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.

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Prisoners - May 17, 2013 final draft script by Aaron Guzikowski - hosted by: Warner Bros - in pdf format

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

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Rush - December 6, 2011 draft script by Peter Morgan - hosted by: Universal Pictures - in pdf format

Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda (Bruhl). The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die.

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Saving Mr. Banks - undated, unspecified draft script by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith - hosted by: Disney - in pdf format

Author P. L. Travers reflects on her difficult childhood while meeting with filmmaker Walt Disney during production for the adaptation of her novel, Mary Poppins.


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Short Term 12 - August 31, 2012 unspecified draft script by Destin Daniel Cretton - hosted by: Short Term 12 - in pdf format

A 20-something supervising staff member of a foster care facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.


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The Spectacular Now - July 2012 production draft script by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (based on the novel by Tim Tharp) - hosted by: A24Awards - in pdf format

Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finecky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.

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Spring Breakers - March 21, 2012 Yellow revised draft script by Harmony Korine - hosted by: A24Awards - in pdf format

Four college girls who land in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation find themselves bailed out by a drug and arms dealer who wants them to do some dirty work.

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12 Years a Slave - undated, unspecified draft script by John Ridley - hosted by: Fox Searchlight - in pdf format

Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

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Wadja - September 14, 2011 9th draft script by Haifaa Al Mansour - hosted by: Sony Classics - in pdf format

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

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The Way Way Back - undated, unspecified draft script by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash - hosted by: Fox Searchlight - in pdf format

Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.

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We Steal Secrets - full film transcript by Alex Gibney - hosted by: Wikileaks.org - in pdf format

A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.


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The Wolf of Wall Street - March 5, 2013 buff revised script by Terence Winter (Based on the book by Jordan Belfort) - hosted by: Paramount - in pdf format

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.


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