Sharon Waxman, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. She is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, and is a contributing writer to the opinion page of The New York Times. Twitter: @sharonwaxman
Experience:
-
Emmy Contender Maggie Gyllenhaal Battles to Put Real Women Onscreen
“In terms of film, I read very little that’s exciting to me. In TV I read things that are more interesting, but I also read a lot of things that are really bad,” the actress tells TheWrap
-
Brian Grazer, Nancy Dubuc, Dawn Ostroff, Aaron Levie Join TheGrill 2015 on Oct. 5-6 (Video)
TheWrap’s sixth annual conference brings together the deciders, influencers and disrupters at the intersection of entertainment, media and technology
-
Helen Mirren, Melissa Arnot, Rachel Sklar and Baby Ruby Join TheWrap’s Power Women NYC (Photos)
More than 120 top women executives in entertainment, media, theater, digital and finance gathered in New York City
-
The Michael Egan Sex Party Case: A Media Nightmare in the Rear View Mirror
“It was a shakedown,” said an insider in David Neuman’s camp
-
Helen Mirren Is Featured Speaker at TheWrap’s First Power Women Breakfast in NYC (Updated)
Academy Award-winning actress joins mountain climber Melissa Arnot, digital leaders Rachel Sklar and Shelley Zalis
-
Thanks ‘Grace and Frankie’ – Why Netflix’s Fonda-Tomlin Show Is Answer to Hollywood Ageism
Jane Fonda, 77, dates a 58-year-old. Apparently the producers of this Netflix show didn’t get the memo
-
Time Warner Cable Set to Sell to Charter Communications for $55 Billion (Report)
Cable giant will sell for $195 per share on heels of cancelled merger with Comcast
-
Maggie Gyllenhaal on Hollywood Ageism: I Was Told 37 Is ‘Too Old’ for a 55-Year-Old Love Interest
“It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh,” the actress tells TheWrap
-
Cannes Business: A ‘Seller’s Market,’ Says IM Global’s Stuart Ford
Sales companies are doing brisk business in a global market where there are plenty of international buyers with money
-
Cannes Journal: Yachts, Jewels, Kering – and Elon Musk
Festival is always about wretched excess as much as it is about filmed art
-
Jane Fonda in Cannes: Let’s Make Sure We Represent Women 51 Percent in Movies
“Women see things differently,” the actress says. “We just do”
-
Cannes Market: Nigel Sinclair On New Start, Lessons Learned From Exclusive Exit (Exclusive)
“The takeaway for me from Exclusive is realizing that independent films can be made as good as studio films”
-
Sony Classics Buys Holocaust Drama ‘Son of Saul’ at Cannes Festival
The film is in competition and a festival favorite
-
Cannes: Miles Teller Boxing Drama ‘Bleed For This’ Sells for $4 Million to Open Road
The indie distributor is planning on an awards season release
-
Cannes Interview: Filmmaker Matteo Garrone On Reinventing Lost Fairy Tales, Love, Human Obsession
Says the director of “Tale of Tales”: “What I’m interested in is human conflict, the violence, the love, the obsession of the human being”
