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
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I’ve Seen the Future Of Music: It’s Micro
Tonight I got a glimpse of what may be the future of the music industry – independent, micro-entrepreneurship. Peter Himmelman, a long-established singer-songwriter who has recorded a dozen albums, scored a handful of television shows and toured the world in concert, has gone micro. (Read his guestblog on TheWrap.) He is now starring in a…
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David White Statement, Feb 3, 2009
Dear Screen Actors Guild member, As you know, the Guild was scheduled to resume negotiations today regarding the expired TV/Theatrical contract. However, that meeting had to be postponed due to a legal matter that has been brought against the Guild, which is now before a state court in Los Angeles. I am writing to present you…
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Sam Zell’s Secret New Year’s Gift: ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes’
We hate to expose Sam Zell, the billionaire entrepreneur who bought then gutted then bankrupted the Tribune Company. But when we learned that the once-junkyard king had just a few years back given a bronze statue to his closest friends with the prediction that a clothesless emperor was on the horizon, we felt it our…
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I’ll Be On www.YouStreamTv.com Tonight; I’ll Try Anything Once
Hey everybody, I will be appearing on “Furious World” tonight at 7 pm. It is billed as the “passionately organized chaos of rock and roll and film,” and is a new Internet effort by musical recording talent Peter Himmelman, the latest mainstream artist to try his entrepreneurial hand on the web. The show, in its sixth week,…
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Lionsgate May Buy Summit
Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment are in talks to merge their two companies, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
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Danny Boyle takes DGA Award
At the Directors Guild Awards on Saturday night, “Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle took top prize
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Week One At The Wrap: A Great Ride
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. By our second and third day, we were already being cited around the world for our break on Michael…
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Comment Away, We’ve Removed Registration!
In response to requests from readers, we’ve turned off the registration requirement to contribute to comments, so feel free to comment at will. Please bear in mind we will not be moderating comments, so we ask any and all to remain civil in their discourse. Also, thanks to all for the huge interest in our Alan Rosenberg interview…
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We Hear You On Comments – Working On It
Hi everyone, we hear your pain about the Comments problem. We are in the midst of undoing the registration requirement to make it a lot simpler to comment. Thanks for your patience, and in the meantime, if you send us a comment for a specific article or post through the "Tell Us Something" button in…
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We’re Nominated Already. Must Be Doing Something Right.
Well, I’m not exactly sure what this means, but it sounds like a good thing. After just two days live, TheWrap.Com has been nominated for an award! A group called AlwaysOn has nominated TheWrap for its OnHollywood 100 list, which "honors the top emerging digital entertainment companies that are creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes…
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Rosenberg Says Ousted Allen “Too Good” For Hollywood
In an emotional letter, the weakened SAG president defended his chief negotiator Doug Allen who was booted from office by angry board members.
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Sharon to Defamer: Would You Like Salsa With That Wrap?
Hey Defamer! You caught us! (See: ‘The Wrap’ Launch Marred By Rumor-Downgrades, Sandwich Confusion) Day Two, it seems that Defamer has investigated The Wrap via this thing called "the Google" – way popular searchy thing – and learned that we are actually a burrito chain in Cambridge, Mass. In fact, we bought the url from those folks…
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Welcome to Day Two! Keep Those Ideas Coming….
Day Two of TheWrap.Com, and counting! A quick note to thank our readers for the fantastic reception. We were deluged all day Monday with good wishes, ideas, blog proposals, offers to write and report, feedback – all overwhelmingly positive. It also happened to be a pretty big news day in Hollywood. Thanks for pointing out…
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Bloodbath At Variety: Hammond, Thompson Let Go
Variety confirmed layoffs of 30 people across the board today, including editorial, sales and corporate staff.
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Welcome
Welcome to TheWrap. A year ago I left The New York Times with a sinking feeling about what was happening to professional journalism. Today we launch with great optimism what I hope will become an exciting new space to cover Hollywood in the digital age. TheWrap seeks to use the myriad tools of the web…