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Sharon Waxman On the Business of Entertainment
The founder and editor of TheWrap’s take on life on the left coast, high culture, low culture and the business of entertainment and media. Waxman writes frequently on the inside doings of Hollywood, and is is also the author of two books, Rebels on the Back Lot and Loot
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Oscar Attendees Rip Will Smith’s ‘Lame’ Apology, Predict Censure by the Academy
The chatter after the telecast was all about Smith — and how it made the industry look
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Jane Campion on Being ‘Emboldened’ by #MeToo and Overcoming a Loss That Left Her ‘Broken’
TheWrap Magazine: A personal conversation with the writer-director of “The Power of the Dog,” who returns to the Oscars after 28 years
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Inside Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Debacle and His Leadership Style: ‘100% Self-Inflicted Wound’
A former Disney leader faults Chapek’s “hubris” in handling the PR crisis
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Lionsgate, STX Deal Falls Through, Indie Studio Seeks to Close Najafi Deal (Exclusive)
Lionsgate submitted a best and final offer in recent days that was well under the $173 million offered late last year by The Najafi Companies
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How Zelenskyy, Putin and Elon Musk Are Fighting the Information War Over Ukraine
Putin is playing hardball, but experts say he might be working from an outdated playbook
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Golden Globes One Year After Meltdown: Are Reforms Enough to Save Embattled HFPA?
Critics say the central problems plaguing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association remain unaddressed: “You need to start from scratch”
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What Warner Bros. Discovery Will Look Like and Why Jason Kilar Won’t Survive the Merger
“The company has been siloed for 30 years,” one insider says. “No one has time for that anymore”
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Jeff Zucker’s Complicated CNN Legacy: Leaked Insider Texts Say He ‘Destroyed’ the Network
“Cover the news. Don’t f— your subordinates. Jesus, how hard is that, anyway?” one former staffer writes
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Women Filmmakers at Sundance: Don’t Touch My Abortion
Sundance 2022: the films are reminding us what it was like when women did not have the right to choose
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When COVID Hits Home – the Cruelest Blow
My mom’s rapid decline shows you just how vicious this pandemic can be — and how damaging to the tissue of family relations
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2021 Wrapped: 3 Totally Unexpected Events That May Reshape Hollywood for Years
The year held some huge news shocks with the end of Time’s Up, the suspension of Golden Globes and the “Rust” shooting
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Welcome to TheWrap’s Power Women Summit 2021: Time to Represent
TheWrap’s fourth annual summit will be our biggest ever – thanks to you!
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Golden Globes Group Seeks to End Nonprofit Status Under CEO Todd Boehly (Exclusive)
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association proposal has alarmed reform-minded members of the group and was discouraged as “unjustifiable” by a lawyer
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Inexperienced ‘Rust’ Armorer Enraged Nicolas Cage on Previous Film: ‘You Just Blew My F–ing Eardrums Out!’ (Exclusive)
A crew member demanded that armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed be fired, but she went on to handle guns on “Rust”
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‘Rust’ Shooting: Gun That Killed Halyna Hutchins Was Used That Morning for Live-Ammo Target Practice
Crew members had gone “plinking” and returned the gun to the set, an insider tells TheWrap