Nobody Knows Anything with The Black List
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“Nobody Knows Anything” is a new show about how difficult – but not impossible – it is to make something actually good in Hollywood. Join LAist and The Black List as we put your favorite actors, directors, and writers through the wringer to see if they’ve got what it takes to make a successful movie or TV show – with, of course, an escalating series of helpful studio executive notes. In the process, we’ll poke fun at the industry we know and love, and see if famed screenwriter William Goldman was right when he said, “Nobody knows anything.”
“Nobody Knows Anything” is hosted by Franklin Leonard (he/him), founder and CEO of The Black List, a platform that helps Hollywood discover great scripts. The show is a production of The Black List and LAist Studios, in partnership with The Ankler.
Listen to past episodes here.
New episodes drop weekly on Tuesdays wherever you get your podcasts and at 7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 p.m. on Sunday on LAist 89.3.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Taran Killam
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Anna Konkle
Lineup subject to change. This program may contain some mature language or themes.
ABOUT FRANKLIN LEONARD
Franklin Leonard is a well-known and esteemed TV and film producer who founded The Black List. The organization’s platform showcases screenwriters’ unproduced works and provides them with a community, connections, and resources to develop their scripts. Hundreds of scripts on The Black List’s annual survey of best unproduced screenplays have been made into award-winning films.
ABOUT THE BLACK LIST
Since its inception in 2005, more than four hundred Black List scripts have been produced as movies, grossing more than $28B in worldwide box office. Films produced from scripts on the annual Black List have won four Best Picture Oscars (“Spotlight,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Argo,” “The King’s Speech”) and twelve Best Screenplay Oscars. A Harvard Business school study found that "Black-Listed scripts were twice as likely to be made into films...They also did better at theaters, with movies of the same budget generating 90% more revenue at the box office.”
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