Franklin Leonard

Franklin Leonard

VP, Creative Affairs, Overbrook Entertainment; Creator, CEO, The Black List

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Overbrook Entertainment Vice President of Creative Affairs Franklin Leonard is the creator of the Black List and co-creator of Blcklst.com, a yearly publication highlighting Hollywood's most popular unproduced screenplays and its ongoing home on the web. Prior to Overbrook, Franklin was the director of development at Universal Pictures. He has done similar work at the production companies of directors Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and former Paramount Pictures president John Goldwyn. Since January 2010, he has been named one of Hollywood Reporter's '30 under 30,' Black Enterprise magazine's '40 Emerging Leaders for Our Future,' AOL Black Voices '30 Black Hollywood Game Changers' and Fast Company's '100 Most Creative People in Business.' He's a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University.

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