Yeah, HAMNET really said “them tear ducts about to get this work. What now? WHAT NOW?”
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Yeah, HAMNET really said “them tear ducts about to get this work. What now? WHAT NOW?”
Warner Bros' co-chair & CEO Mike De Luca has said that if he could change one thing about Hollywood right now it would be that every studio would make more theatrical movies Last week, I asked him why he wants MORE competition. This was his answer Full convo here open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
What happened after Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy made that (supposedly controversial) deal with Ryan Coogler for SINNERS? Full conversation over at open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Last week, I sat down with Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy — co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group — for an hour-long conversation about power, taste, fear, and the future of film. Full conversation here: open.substack.com/pub/franklin... On why they made the SINNERS deal they did...
An absolutely fantastic, in-depth, and honest conversation with two of the greats in the industry. Kudos to @franklinleonard.bsky.social for facilitating such a thoughtful and reflective discussion. A must watch. (I took notes, for real!)
Last week, I sat down with Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy — co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group — for an hour-long conversation about power, taste, fear, and the future of film. Full conversation here: open.substack.com/pub/franklin... On why they made the SINNERS deal they did...
Last Tuesday afternoon, I sat down with Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy — co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group — for an hour-long conversation about power, taste, fear, and the future of film. (Full convo here: open.substack.com/pub/franklin...) On what makes movies theater worthy...
Last Tuesday afternoon, I sat down with Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy — co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group — for an hour-long conversation about power, taste, fear, and the future of film. (Full convo here: open.substack.com/pub/franklin...) On what makes movies theater worthy...
Thank you New York City for making the #ZcavengerHunt a reality 🙏
Yeah, I’m definitely doing three days in Rabat, but I’m trying to figure out which of those two to do an additional 24 hours in.
There’s gonna be three days in Rabat regardless. Just curious if I had to add 24 hours in one or the other which it should be.
They haven't claimed that that's their goal. They just told exactly what they are. If you're not interested in watching what they make, don't watch it. As for movies that challenge this administration, they made SINNERS and SUPERMAN and they've got ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER coming soon. You tell me.
Better city in which to spend 24 hours (in January) and why? * Casablanca * Tangier
Correct, studio heads are not artists.
On Tuesday afternoon, I sat down with Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy — co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group — for an hour-long conversation about power, taste, fear, and the future of film. substack.com/@franklinleo... On filmmaking and the politics of the day:
On Tuesday afternoon, I sat down with Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy — co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group — for an hour-long conversation about power, taste, fear, and the future of film. (substack.com/@franklinleo...) Here's an excerpt:
Are there any Black films at all in the fall festival conversation?
For those curious why I was insistent that Jordan Peele should be involved in the Gremlins sequel, this is why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01l...
On Tuesday, I asked Warner Bros' Mike De Luca & Pam Abdy which of their properties they might consider rebooting. (I asked them other things too. Full interview available to subscribers at the link here: substack.com/@franklinleo...) Here were their answers:
Doomed no more, Warners scored with Ryan Coogler’s 'Sinners' and Zach Cregger’s 'Weapons.' Why gut instincts and belief in filmmakers are the real IP.
They don’t get the joke
But again, nothing makes the annual list BECAUSE of the website. Scripts make the annual list because they’re the most liked scripts that the execs we survey every year have read, wherever they first encountered them.
Ryan Brennan’s Clean Break springs to mind. deadline.com/2024/11/sear...
No script ends on the annual list because of the site. They end up there because execs voted for them as one of their favorite scripts of the year via a separate process. However, literally dozens of scripts that were on the site have ended up on the annual list.
It may be mid-August but school is back in session. @richardrushfield.bsky.social ield asked entertainment's smartest minds like @franklinleonard.bsky.social for their Hollywood Syllabi: lists of required reading and watching for anyone in the industry theankler.com/p/hollywood-...
Gonna start doing some interviews over on Substack, and these first two seemed particularly appropriate. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Cheers to Spike Lee – his new film HIGHEST 2 LOWEST arrives in theaters today! In celebration of a brand new Spike Lee joint, please enjoy his career-spanning conversation with @franklinleonard.bsky.social + @thathagengrrl.bsky.social on The Black List Podcast from 2020. buff.ly/rg0WMrL
Paris. And yes.
Spending my evening Shazamming French rap during the Red Star v Amiens pre-game. How about you?
Congratulations to 2016 #BlackListLab alum Tom Dean - his project CAROLINA CAROLINE is headed to @TIFFNET.bsky.social for its WORLD PREMIERE! Read more here: tiff.net/films/caroli...
How on Earth have people not learned to leave this man alone?
I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.
RIP Malcolm-Jamal Warner, a warm, welcome presence in front of and behind the camera that has been taken from us far too soon.
This one hurts.
Might have just spent an unreasonable amount of time exploring what a trip to Morocco for the knockout round of AFCON in January might look like.
Reverence.
I’ve been looking for a Colbert quote to post that did suitable justice to my reference for him. I think this might be it.
He’s already deleted his tweet. m.youtube.com/watch?si=czL...
Bill Ackman is a clown.
“I never wrote a picture in my life.” Notably, this Donald Trump heavy marker-drawn doodle, which sold at auction in 2019, is dated 2004. Epstein’s 50th birthday was in 2003. www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta...
Gotta do it.
Take the flowers and kick his ass back out to the curb. In this case, I will drink my delicious real sugar coca cola at the best party I can fathom when he’s no longer in office.
Okay fine he’s done one good thing.
But they had the pose. bsky.app/profile/fran...
Most of them would have left the church a long time ago if they were actually consistent.
And yes, obviously they didn’t care as much about it as they claimed to because most of them would have left the church a long time ago if they had.
That’s exactly my point. At least they could claim that it was about child sex trafficking. But now the farce of that is clear to everyone.
Truly, one of the only redeemable things about MAGA was that they believed that child sex trafficking was so morally wrong that it was worth burning it all down to investigate and now they don’t even have that.
In a primary where he was a relatively new candidate. Obama did terribly with Black voters early on too. What’s your point?
if andrew cuomo hates socialism so much why did he choose to be publicly owned
With Mase Welcome Back as the music.
Andrew Cuomo announcing his independent campaign on Twitter and immediately getting murderously ratioed by Mamdani's fundraising link response to the tweet is absolute comedy hours. Never seen anything like it.
Call me Mr Brella how I weather the storm.
. @richardrushfield.bsky.social asked @theblcklst.bsky.social's @franklinleonard.bsky.social what reading or viewing he’d assign to Hollywood. His genre and history-spanning list is a must for anyone in or aspiring to be in entertainment. Full conversation: theankler.com/p/the-rushfi...
Guardians Of Predators
The entire internet right now
Trump (sobbing): I never thought leopards would eat MY face.
Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.
Trump posted about Epstein on Truth Social. It's not going well for him in the replies
i do not really believe in any vast conspiracy but it is fuckin hilarious watching pam bondi try to explain that every video has a one minute gap in it
The fact that he’s even talking about it IS “a real story.” Beyond that, people can do more than one thing at a time. I can care about the President threatening a private citizen and the loss of health care for millions while watching the women’s Euro Cup.
He’s the President. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone
Totally normal behavior from a healthy brain running a functional government.
Gonna spend my day convincing people that NPR forced Clipse to play a Tiny Desk concert if they wanted to use All Things Considered as a track title.
It occurs to me that this is what happens when you don’t have any actual friends. Real friends wouldn’t let their real friends embarrass themselves like this. Which is all to say that Shaun’s real enemies are much closer than he realizes, which is just sort of sad.
On the Rushfield Lunch today, @theankler.com's @richardrushfield.bsky.social asked me for my mandatory Hollywood curriculum, and suffice it to say that I got a little carried away. You've been warned, but enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
ok lmao which one of you did this mamdanitimes.com
Get into it.
Tomorrow at 11am PT, join @richardrushfield.bsky.social for a Substack Live conversation with one of the most fascinating and consistently provocative voices in Hollywood, the indispensable @franklinleonard.bsky.social (founder and CEO, @theblcklst.bsky.social ). open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Having seen the pervasiveness of fly-by-night scammers preying on desperate, wannabe screenwriters in Hollywood, this story rings true but still wow.
Most people don’t really understand what the SATs are for — they are designed to predict college Freshman GPA, and have been statistically shown to do so. And that’s really it. international.collegeboard.org/toolkit/sat-...
You can't make it up MAGA Congressman Derrick Van Orden-a huge supporter of the Big Ugly Bill Who published this repugnant post cheering the fact that the law would gut Medicaid and SNAP Is now BEGGING the Democratic governor of his state To save the very hospitals that he just voted to close
Great column by @franklinleonard.bsky.social franklinleonard.substack.com/p/take-that-... Take That for Data - Franklin Leonard's Substack
Wow. If the first post by @franklinleonard.bsky.social on his new Substack is a taste of things to come, the annual subscription is a steal. Interested in writing, Hollywood, power, or culture? I highly recommend. Read for yourself and tell me I'm wrong. franklinleonard.substack.com/p/take-that-...
I don’t know that I have ever heard an entertainment executive own a failure like this. An absolute masterclass in leadership from Jason Blum on The Town. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Gianni Infantino really won.
OH MY GOD AL HILLAL
Sounds like you probably got an extra month of hosting for free given that it took longer than three weeks to deliver your evaluation (assuming it was purchased on the day you first hosted.)
I would recommend simply cancelling hosting so that you won’t be rebilled when your current month runs out.
Y'ALL. I just had the INCREDIBLE experience of co-directing a short horror film adaptation of THE KEEPER on the set with hubby Steven Barnes, along with an incredible exec and crew. MORE photos of cast and FX to come! And you will be hearing a LOT more about The Keeper! Photos: Gordon Lewis
This morning I discovered Substack’s chat feature, so naturally I'm doing an AMA to procrastinate during the holiday slowdown. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Now THIS is a F***ING TRAILER!
United States’ Mediocre National Team
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Lander: "We're not going to resolve how people feel about the conflict between Is. and Pal, but ... we'll have a mayor who's going to keep everyone safe, who will listen to Jews. But we also want to make sure we're listening to Muslim NYers, Iranian NYers—it is an incredibly diverse city."
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
Congratulations to all the talented writers, filmmakers, casts and crews who have a film featured on the @nytimes.com list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century! Check it out now: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/best-movies-21st-century.html
You can’t say you weren’t warned that this would happen. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
It’s almost as if this whole thing about removing people from the country has nothing to do with criminality at all.
I just want y’all to contemplate the reaction if a member of any other religious group was treated this way by a member of Congress.
