Franklin Leonard
The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
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- If you’re in Los Angeles on February 17, come through. If you know someone who will be in Los Angeles and enjoy being around other writers, tell them to come through.
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- I was wrong, and I apologize. It more then tripled Melania’s windfall. My bad.
- The real box office story of the weekend is the self distributed and self financed horror film that more than doubled Melania’s windfall despite a production budget less than one fifteenth its size.
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- Alex Pretti was a 37 year old ICU nurse who put his body between ICE and a woman they were physically assaulting. They sprayed chemical irritants into his face, beat him, and then shot him to death.
- Congratulations to everybody getting off their first “it could have been me” tweets today.
- 37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.
- If you’re gonna run around on the internet talking about Oscar snubs, you have to say who you’d swap out. Those are the rules. We live in a society (barely.)
- 16 Oscar nominations later… open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
- Anyway…
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- I wrote a sequel, if only because I find the irony hilarious. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
- Question 1 (of 9) every screenwriter should ask themselves before writing FADE IN if they want to write a commercial screenplay. franklinleonard.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
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- Put it this way... nine of the folks announcing #BlackList2025 scripts tomorrow were nominated for Golden Globes this morning (and another one directed a 3x nominated film even though he himself didn't get nominated individually). Don't miss it. blcklst.com/2025BlackList
- #BlackList2025 arrives tomorrow morning. Tuesday December 9, 9 am PT Announced by some very special folks blcklst.com/2025blacklist
- Fernando Reza designed the hell out of the 2025 Black List cover if I do say so myself. List drops tomorrow at 9:00 am PT over at www.blcklst.com/2025blacklist
- #BlackList2025 arrives tomorrow morning. Tuesday December 9, 9 am PT Announced by some very special folks blcklst.com/2025blacklist
- #BlackList2025 arrives Tuesday morning, December 9 at 9 am PT.
- The only appropriate Nuzzi/Lizza movie is a musical, in case you haven’t already realized it.
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- “Every cultural community should be so lucky as to have advocates who go as hard for their people as Rafael Casal and the Bay List partners go up for the Bay.”
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- No Kings Los Angeles 10.18.25
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- First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...
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- Reposted by Franklin LeonardIf anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
- For all my fellow football sickos and the football curious… open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
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- As I was saying... deadline.com/2025/10/crus...
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