Franklin Leonard
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Black List 2024: Scripts About AI, Tickle Me Elmo and a Young Anthony Bourdain Among Favorite Unproduced Screenplays
For the 20th annual edition, 83 scripts made the cut
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The Black List Expands Into Fiction and Unpublished Novels
The initiative is intended to bridge the gap between early-career writers and the competitive publishing arena
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Wrap Roundtable: Franklin Leonard Says Making Indie Films Isn’t an ‘Altruistic Impulse’ – ‘It’s Exactly the Opposite’ (Video)
The Black List founder argues low-budget productions still “comes from a fundamental desire to increase and improve the economics of the industry”
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Logan Lerman, Asa Butterfield to Play Young Lee Atwater and Karl Rove in James Schamus’ ‘College Republicans’
Wes Jones’ buddy comedy is based on true events, set in the summer of 1973
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Shia LaBeouf Entered Another Emerging Screenwriters Contest – And Won
The actor and writer previously made it to the quarterfinals of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards with his script for 2019’s “Honey Boy”
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Black List 2019: Films on Fleetwood Mac, Barron Trump, Nicolas Cage Among List of Best Unproduced Scripts
66 screenplays make up 15th edition of annual list
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Ava DuVernay Opposes Steven Spielberg’s Effort to Keep Netflix Out of the Oscars
Her Central Park 5 film will debut on Netflix in May
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Lena Waithe, Eva Longoria and The Black List Announce Winners of MACRO’s Episodic Lab
Lab was started in June 2018 as a way to help discover and advance the work of writers of color in TV
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Black List 2018: Matt Drudge, Kobe Bryant Movies Top List of Best Unproduced Scripts
This year, founder Franklin Leonard unveiled the selected scripts in a six-minute short
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TheGrill 2017: Hollywood Diversity Departments ‘Have No Power,’ Mitu Founder Beatriz Acevedo Says
“It’s like winning that card in [Monopoly] where they send you directly to jail,” Acevedo says of working with network and studio multicultural departments
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The Black List Hopes to Release Survey of TV Pilots for First Time Ever
Organization has been highlighting best unproduced film screenplays since 2005
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Mae Whitman, Alexis Bledel to Play Karl Rove, Lee Atwater in Black List’s ‘College Republicans’ Reading
The cast also includes Tyler Hoechlin, Skylar Astin, Chace Crawford, Zach Woods and Shannon Woodward
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Ev Williams’ Medium Unveils New Plan to Start Making Money
The online self-publishing company launches memberships and options for publishers to host commercial content from brands
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Bryan Cranston: The Black List Shouldn’t Be Something Screenwriters Want to Get On
Actor tells TheWrap he wants to change name of the annual screenplay list, whose creator says name was chosen to pay tribute to Dalton Trumbo and others
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Secret Hollywood Meeting Addresses Crisis in Gender Disparity
October conference revealed on Tuesday drew heavyweights from Lionsgate’s Erik Feig, showrunner Jenji Kohan, Marvel’s Victoria Alonso, actress Maria Bello and more
