Opening-night reception for TheWrap's conference on media and the entertainment industry, TheGrill, Sept. 21 at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. (All photographs by Jonathan Alcorn)
At a time of unprecedented change and shifting business models, the entertainment industry is hungry for thought leadership. TheWrap believes that the conversation about where and how entertainment will meet the challenge of the digital age needs to be centered in Hollywood.
Conceived in an effort to create a high level forum for discussing the transformational forces in our changing entertainment industry, TheGrill has brought together a community of leaders from across the entertainment economy from disciplines including media, entertainment, finance and technology.
Power brokers convened on TheGrill, the second annual media conference put on by TheWrap, Sept. 19-20
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