久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Culture
Home / Culture / Film and TV

Black List creator offers shortcut to success

By XU FAN | China Daily | Updated: 2018-04-26 08:56
Share
Share - WeChat
Franklin Leonard speaks at the fourth Chinese Movie Scriptwriters' Seminar in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily]

After a long-haul flight from New York, Franklin Leonard looked a bit tired. But his speech recalling the dramatic birth of The Black List, an influential survey about Hollywood's most popular but unproduced screenplays, quickly captured the attention of the Chinese audience.

As the founder of the list, Leonard was attending the fourth Chinese Movie Scriptwriters' Seminar, which was organized by Bianjubang, an online platform for scriptwriters, to discuss the key to distinguishing good stories on April 19.

The title of Leonard's speech was Without a Writer, There is Nothing.

But the Hollywood film executive's rapid rise to fame is an interesting story that could just as well be titled Without an Email, There is Nothing.

Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States and graduating from Harvard University, Leonard began his career as a celebrity agent's assistant in 2004. A year later, the then 27-year-old became a junior executive at Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way Productions.

A big part of his daily job was to read scores of novels, articles and scripts, which proved to be a time-consuming way of trying to identify works with real potential. Besides the usual working week, Leonard recalls having to take another 20 scripts home with him to read on weekends.

During one late night in 2005, the exhausted young man suddenly had an idea in the company's office, high above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He sent emails to nearly 100 film industry development executives, asking them to anonymously list their favorite yet-to-be produced screenplays of the year.

"Initially, it (the anonymous survey) was very selfish. I just wanted to make my job easier… There is a long history in Hollywood that people share information in order to do their jobs better, but email was comparatively new in 2005," says Leonardo during an interview with China Daily after the event.

Unexpectedly, he received a response to most of the emails, which he then made into a list, and then, again anonymously, shared with the people in the survey. A week later, he found the list was forwarded back to him dozens of times. And six months later, he received a call from an agent who tried to sell him a script by confiding in him a "personal secret".

"Listen, don't tell anyone I told you this, but I have it on very good authority that this script will be number one on next year's Black List," says the agent.

Leonard was dumbfounded. Before that, he had no plans to make another list.

1 2 Next   >>|
Most Popular
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 成人 在线欧美亚洲 | 亚洲精品成人网久久久久久 | 久久精品视频免费观看 | 欧美一级亚洲一级 | 日本免费二区三区久久 | 日本黄页网站免费大全 | 亚洲一区二区三区免费看 | 国产精品va一级二级三级 | 欧产日产国产精品精品 | 手机在线观看亚洲国产精品 | 欧美一级毛片激情 | 日韩特级毛片免费观看视频 | 一级一黄在线观看视频免费 | 韩国欧洲一级毛片免费 | 九九九免费视频 | 大桥未久在线精品视频在线 | 日本三级免费网站 | a级片在线观看免费 | 亚洲视频aaa | 国产高清在线精品 | 久草视频福利在线 | 亚洲人成网站色7799在线观看 | 久久国产一区二区三区 | 老司机午夜性生免费福利 | 国产视频精品久久 | 久草在线新首页 | 日本高清久久 | 日本久久久久久久久久 | 久久精品免观看国产成人 | 国产精品免费一级在线观看 | 欧美一级淫片a免费播放口aaa | 欧美aaaa在线观看视频免费 | 国产福利不卡一区二区三区 | 成人毛片免费观看视频 | 国内成人精品视频 | 国产91专区 | 国产成人免费 | 久草手机在线播放 | 欧美老头老太做爰xxxx | 新婚第一次一级毛片 | 精品在线免费观看 |