Hollywood Screenwriter Discontinued
The budget Write Brothers app — dead since 2011, installers still posted.
At a glance
- Maker
- Write Brothers, Inc.
- First release
- —
- Discontinued
- 2011
- Status
- Discontinued — the app is dead
- Platforms
- Windows
- Pricing
- Was the budget sibling of Movie Magic Screenwriter
- Native formats
- — own binary format (undocumented)
What it is
Hollywood Screenwriter was Write Brothers’ cheaper, lighter screenwriter for hobbyists. Official support ended 1 September 2011, though the company still hosts the installers — scripts written in it live in an undocumented binary format.
What people are saying
The good
Buyer’s guides called it the best economical choice for proper formatting: not fancy, but all the essentials at a fraction of flagship pricing, and veterans remember it fondly as the primer that taught them the workflow.
The bad
It was always the stripped-down sibling, and that position evaporated when genuinely capable free rivals arrived. Support ended in 2011, leaving installers on a support portal as the only remnants.
Paraphrased consensus from user reviews, forums and retrospective coverage across the web.
Where it came from
Sold through the 1990s and 2000s as the entry-level alternative to Movie Magic Screenwriter; discontinued with a formally dated support end — rare honesty from a vendor.
Worth knowing
The vendor publicly dated its own product’s death (Sept 1, 2011) and keeps the downloads alive to this day.