Sharon Waxman

Sharon Waxman

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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

  • Nikki Finke: Grilled

    On chasing news, her vision for the future and selling DHD for “the GNP of a small country.”

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  • The Revolution by Twitter — from L.A.

    It was a beautiful afternoon in late June, a perfect day for a garden party. The stately home in Brentwood was filled with flowers and high-school graduates, while smoke from the grilling of kebabs billowed up along the Italian-style roofline of the house. Outside in the garden, prominent members of Los Angeles’ Iranian-American community sipped…

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  • Is it a Summer Lull? Or a Balmy Recession?

    June. Summer. L.A. School’s out. Suddenly you can drive down Wilshire Boulevard at 5 p.m. and move more than 25 feet at a time. No one’s tearing to soccer practice, or late to a basketball game, or trying to make a guild screening or poach a client or close a contract. Most of that stuff’s…

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  • What’s Behind Red-Hot William Morris Memo

    The note reinforces the view of those who think Jim Wiatt sold out the Morris agency to Endeavor.

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  • Eat the (New) Press: Breakfast at Balthazar’s

    The cognoscenti of new media were gathered not-terribly-early beneath the soaring, molded plaster ceilings of Balthazar’s, a famous, French-style bistro with heavenly croissants and great big masses of flowers in vases, perched at the corner of Spring and Broadway. It was 9:30, and the vibe was laid-back-about-to-inherit-the-power-from-those-big-money media-moguls-uptown-we-can-wait-a-month. Betsy Morgan, the CEO of Huffington Post,…

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  • Updating: Explosive William Morris Agency Internal Memo

    Updating Friday: Here's a bit of context, and I will continue to update this post as I report out the story. Why do we care about this memo? It's exactly the kind of thing that never gets revealed in Hollywood. While there's plenty of gossip and speculation about who makes how much at the talent agencies,…

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  • Media Buzzards Circle Weinstein Co

    The media buzzards are circling The Weinstein Company. The rumors of imminent collapse that have circulated for weeks now have something to land on – the fact that Bob and Harvey have hired financing consultants Miller Buckfire to help restructure their finances. This must sting a great deal, coming on the very night that the…

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  • Carey to Replace Chernin as Murdoch’s No. 2

    Carey is said to be interested in returning to a company that was once his home

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  • Bartz: Yahoo, Microsoft Still Talking Search

    But, says Yahoo’s CEO at the AllThingsD conference, it will take “big boatloads of money.”

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    Bartz: Yahoo, Microsoft Still Talking Search

  • AllThingsD: Homeys on the Digital Frontier

    CARLSBAD, Calif. — The AllThingsD conference, now in its seventh year, has earned a reputation for bringing the top minds, trends, entrepreneurs and ideas together for a couple of sun-kissed days north of San Diego. That’s the myth. Here’s the reality: Um, they really do. (Except there’s no sun to speak of at this time…

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  • John Malone: People Will Pay for Quality Content

    There’s a reason John Malone is one of the richest guys on the planet. Talking to Walt Mossberg at the AllThingsD conference in Carlsbad today, the cable billionaire suggested that the future of media consumption is going to involve payment, much like the pay-TV model of a generation ago that complicated the world for the comfy…

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  • Bauer-Martinez: Forgotten, But Not Gone

    Philippe Martinez is one of those people who make the movie business worth writing about. The super-sized, baby-faced, would-be mogul rode into town four years ago, boasting of his plan to upend the Hollywood independent studio system and replace it with what he knew audiences wanted: better films. With financing from the City of London,…

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  • Despite Recession, Cannes Market Brisk

    Executives say the recession has been a healthy correction, clearing away excess and leaving deals that were smarter and realistic

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    Despite Recession, Cannes Market Brisk

  • Bob Weinstein Flies Commercial; Ouch!

    The flight from Nice to London was packed on Thursday with denizens from the festival. But the plane was late. As the flight neared landing, an attendant was seen hurrying two pressed-for-time passengers to the back of the plane, where they could be offloaded in a hurry. Bad luck for Bob Weinstein and his colleague,…

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  • Tarantino’s ‘Basterds’ Pleases; IFC Buys Loach, ‘Antichrist’

    You had to get up pretty early to score a spot at the very first screening of “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s new revenge fantasy set during World War II. Thousands of journalists mobbed the Palais de Festival, and even Harvey Weinstein himself was seen running frantically from one entrance to another as guards told him…

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