It’s been quite a week. In the first week of our launch, TheWrap broke two major stories and wrote a dozen other solid pieces, along with Hollyblogs from producers, screenwriters and actor-directors and news from our columnists.
Tonight I got a glimpse of what may be the future of the music industry – independent, micro-entrepreneurship.
By all accounts, the leadership at DreamWorks has left a trail of fury and resentment behind them at Universal, their partners for a distribution deal who were unceremoniously dumped when DreamWorks started negotiating with Disney for a better deal.
In the course of family affairs that is the close-knit business of Hollywood, this is the equivalent of sleeping with your sister-in-law on Thanksgiving. Not good.
When word leaked on Friday morning that DreamWorks had gotten all hot and heavy with Mickey Mouse, Universal was furious.
So TheWrap is about two weeks old. And it’s making waves. That’s why we’re here.
But I’m pretty saddened and shocked to attend an audio news conference today that was called in the wake of our investigative reporting about the plight of the weakest members of the Hollywood community. And I could perceive no one there from the media establishment except the Los Angeles Daily News.
What if there was real news, and old media didn't care enough to write about it?
Hey all, the launch event for TheWrap happens this Wednesday evening at the Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles.
You might be one of the lucky people who attends!
We are going to choose three new members of TheWrap community to come to this VIP event for Hollywood insiders.
The evening will include not only meeting our editors and writers, but a photo exhibit of rare and never-seen "intimate Hollywood" images by the world-renowned photographer Neal Preston.
Three lucky new members of TheWrap community have been notified that their ticket to our launch party tonight will be at the door.
Can't wait to meet them.
Meanwhile, I hope our readers will check out the slide show under "Dailies" today of the work of Neal Preston, a world-renowned photographer who has shot private and public moments with rock stars, actors, sports figures and celebrities for the past 30 years. His work has been featured on the covers of Time magazine, Rolling Stone, People and many other publications.
TheWrap got a seat in the press room for the Oscars. And here’s what it costs to get one of those newfangled “high-speed” digital gadgets that’s become all the rage: $500.
Yup. $500.
Or else you can use dial-up.
It already cost this much two years ago, when I last covered the Oscars for The New York Times. And I couldn’t believe it then.
