Why Hollywood Can't Find Good Scripts
Wall Street Journal
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How to get discovered in Hollywood has been a decades-old struggle.
For screenwriters, that game started to change when Franklin Leonard launched the Black List, an annual ranking of the “most liked” but not-yet-produced screenplays.
Since 2005, more than 500 of those scripts have become feature films, including several Best Picture Oscar-winners.
Ryan Knutson interviewed Leonard about how to fix some of Hollywood’s other challenges at our live show in Los Angeles.
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- Hollywood Jobs Are Disappearing
- Inside the Nasty Fight to Take Over Hollywood - The Journal.
- For Riz Ahmed, Life is a Spy Thriller
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