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Franklin Leonard
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The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
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...
August 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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...
August 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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...
August 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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...
August 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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:
August 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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:
August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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:
August 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM