Sharon Waxman, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. She is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, and was a Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times. Twitter: @sharonwaxman
Experience:
-
Smart Money is on the Hunt for Deals in Toronto
Graham Taylor sounds off on opportunities in indie film’s changed landscape
-
The Ubiquitous George Clooney
Three movies, a news conference and a traffic jam: won’t the man just run for president?
-
Toronto Festival Challenges Indie Film to Evolve
Stipulated: Independent film is in crisis. Now the question is: What will follow?
-
DC Entertainment’s Diane Nelson: Grilled
“I’m the first to admit, I’m not by my nature a comic fan. What I bring to the party is a skill at moving properties and brands.”
-
More Secret Testimony: This Time, it’s Writers Guild CFO Don Gor
We learn the guild has residual money of 5,000 people; also that you remain a member of the Writers Guild even when you are dead
-
TheWrap Shows You What the Foreign Levy Lawsuit Was All About
“Why is a man in his sixties only just receiving royalties for his films, which were due in his thirties?”
-
MGM leaks: Stephen Cooper Scares the Staff (updated)
At a company-wide meeting on Wednesday morning at an AMC theater, Cooper presented a three-part plan “to make MGM solvent,” says one attendee.
-
WGA Settles, Eric Hughes Will Challenge (updated)
A week after WaxWord publishes whistleblower testimony, the guild agrees to pay out $30 mill in residuals and foreign levies
-
Welcome to TheWrap, Version 2.0
We hope you like our new and improved site, which launches this morning. Comments welcome.
-
Bob Iger Can Go Home Laughing
“I’m jealous beyond belief,” said one rival executive. “I think it’s a brilliant move on Disney’s part.”
-
-
She’s Leaving Home
She left home today. In actual fact, I still can’t believe it. I’m used to being the one who leaves all the time. Today I was left. By my little girl. Why is that so damn hard? It’s a ritual every parent goes through if they’re fortunate enough to have a kid who grows up…
-
Nine Months and Still No Outrage on MPTF Closures (updated: Bert Fields defends Katz!)
So my phone just rang with Hollywood uber-lawyer Bert Fields calling from his farmhouse in the French countryside (that’s Jeffrey Katzenberg’s lawyer). Fields wants me to know that I’m free to have my own point of view, but that I’m completely wrong. There is no choice but to close the hospital and long-term care…
-
Universal Studios Dead in Dubai: Sign of the Times
Fast Company has a very interesting flyover of Dubai, where the ambitions to build a whole bunch of theme parks have dwindled to a heap of sand. Blame the falling price of oil and the crumbling fortunes of the global financial markets. But — how can we say this gently? THEY OVERBUILT LIKE CRAZY. …
-
Shredding Checks: Whistleblower Mial’s Testimony (part II)
Read part one: Exclusive: WGA Whistleblower Terri Mial’s Testimony Part two: Guild whistleblower Terri Mial testified in December 2006 about the Writers Guild of America sitting on residual and foreign levy money belonging to both members and non-members. I posted a few days ago on the first section of that testimony. Here, at…