MoviePass Parent CEO Bids to Buy Shuttered Service, Take it Private
Ted Farnsworth resigned the top post of Helios and Matheson Analytics in order to bid for MoviePass
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Letter From Toronto: Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’ and Julie Delpy’s ‘My Zoe’ Offer a Split View of Divorce
The two films treat the same subject matter, but the difference in perspective is vast
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Letter From Toronto: Films on Striving to Be Black in America
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Beyond Black Lives Matter, “Waves” and “American Son” depict a netherworld where the upper middle class black experience teeters on the edge of tragedy
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ViacomCBS Merger Caps Hollywood’s ‘Eat or Get Eaten’ Consolidation Era
Consolidation is essentially achieved across the industry. Now the mergers have to work
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2019 ShortList Film Festival Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for the Winner!!
The ShortList showcases 12 award-winning short films hand-picked from the world’s top film festivals of the past year
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Power Women Summit 2019 Welcomes Chrissy Metz, Amazon’s Jennifer Salke and Gigi Gorgeous
Activists, actors and leader join the conversation about achieving 50/50 parity
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5 Things to Do After El Paso From Get-It-Done Gun Control Activist Shannon Watts
WaxWord talks to the founder of the grass roots group, who says, “There is not a parent in America today that is not afraid that their kid is next”
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Sony Chief Tom Rothman on Quentin Tarantino and Original Films: ‘You Have to Commit’
Sony’s movie chief savors a glowing first screening of “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” at the Cannes Film Festival
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Why Robert Mueller’s Testimony Feels Like Such a Throwback
In historic testimony before Congress, Mueller often looked weary of being the foil for partisan speechifying
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Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz, Robbie Brenner on ‘Barbie’ Film: We Want to Make Movies That Have Cultural Impact
“We aren’t handing the IP to someone and letting them run away,” CEO Ynon Kreiz tells TheWrap
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Why Does Jay Penske’s Media Company Still Have a $200 Million Saudi Stake 9 Months After Khashoggi’s Murder?
After TheWrap requested comment, Penske updated its original story from February 2018 to disclose the investor
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Power Women at a Time of Challenge – On Pushback and Where We’re Headed
These days I sometimes struggle to find the words to share about the progress we are making as women.
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Indie STX Entertainment Seeks Cash or a Buyer After String of Box Office Flops (Exclusive)
The studio’s CFO denied that the company is seeking to sell
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Sam Gores Goes It Alone – Why That UTA-Paradigm Deal Fell Apart
Price wasn’t the issue. Timing wasn’t the issue. The WGA dispute wasn’t the issue. Culture wasn’t the issue.
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‘When They See Us’ Cast on the Nightmares of Ava DuVernay’s Real-Life Drama
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I would wake up and be afraid to go back to work — but I knew it was for a purpose bigger than me,” actor Jharrel Jerome says
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Takeaways From TheGrill 2019 – Where Anxiety Is Driving Innovation
At this year’s conference on convergence, we learned about new approaches — driven by necessity
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Welcome to TheGrill 2019: How to Cut Through the Avalanche of Content
At our annual business conference, we will focus on how to break through the noise and win attention for new projects and formats and ideas
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Michael K. Williams Speaks Out on Wilding Attack, Guilt Feelings in ‘When They See Us': ‘I’m Sick of the Anger’
In a conversation with WaxWord, the actor says: “I know what it is to be violated. My life was on the line”
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Hollywood Takes on the Red States – What’s at Stake in Abortion Showdown
Billions of dollars in production are at risk
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Cannes Struggles for Relevance in Shrinking Movie Business
Cannes 2019: While the U.S. was riveted by the last episode of “Game of Thrones” on Sunday, Cannes fiddled to the tune of Terrence Malick’s three-hour opus “A Hidden Life”
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TheWrap Celebrates 10 Years of Hollywood Coverage in Cannes With Activism Talk, Industry Gathering
The industry’s leading digital news organization marked its first 10 years with Somali activist Ifrah Ahmed and “Give Me Liberty” producer Alice Austen and a VIP cocktail party
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Ryan Kavanaugh Explains His Leap Back Into Hollywood With a Big China Deal
“I don’t go to premieres. I won’t be on set. I won’t take credits,” he says
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TheWrap Hit Historic Traffic High of 17 Million Unique Visitors Last Month
TheWrap is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year
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On BE Conference and Mentoring – Tough Love, Nobody’s Perfect and It’s Not About You
Work hard. Listen, don’t talk. Take a job with a boss you admire, and don’t worry about the salary. Don’t presume. If you make a mistake, say so.
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TheWrap’s BE Mentorship Conference Kicks Off With Frankie Shaw, Melanie Liburd and Sydney Park
Our mentorship conference comes to Los Angeles and brings together top female executives and talent from across the industry — at the beach!
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Queen Beyonce Aims for History in Her Netflix Film ‘Homecoming’
At a time when we so desperately need role models, Beyonce provides a towering example of empowered womanhood
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Tiffany Haddish Rules, Disney Dominates and Other Takeaways From CinemaCon 2019
The razzle-dazzle of past conventions of the movie theater community has disappeared
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Requiem for 4,000 Fox Jobs Lost – Welcome to the New Hollywood
To have fought your way into the dream machine, only to find that after years of quality work there is no job for you – that is a harsh blow and a sign of our era
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Hollywood Cynicism Finds a New Low in College Bribery Scandal
To the outside world, bribery is what Hollywood represents and two actresses and an executive associated with CAA may as well be the entire industry
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After ‘Leaving Neverland,’ We Need to Reassess Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson, deceased, faces definitive #MeToo accusations
