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Sharon Waxman On the Business of Entertainment
The founder and editor of TheWrap’s take on life on the left coast, high culture, low culture and the business of entertainment and media. Waxman writes frequently on the inside doings of Hollywood, and is is also the author of two books, Rebels on the Back Lot and Loot
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff ‘Appalled’ by ‘Richard Jewell’ Portrayal of Reporter, Journalism
“To me it seems clear that Clint Eastwood doesn’t understand how journalists actually work,” AJC top editor Kevin Riley says
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Rich Battista Quit as Imagine Entertainment CEO After Clashes With Staff: ‘A Real Hothead’ (Exclusive)
“Short temper. Short fuse,” one insider says of shortlived CEO
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Jay Roach vs Todd Phillips on Whether ‘Woke Culture’ Is Killing Comedy Movies
“Everyone is too touchy,” Phillips, the director of “Joker,” tells me — but “Bombshell” filmmaker Roach feels otherwise
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Thom Geier Steps Up to Become TheWrap Executive Editor
Geier presided over record online traffic growth and multiple awards at the leading digital news site
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Disney Boss Kevin Mayer: Brilliant Dealmaker or ‘Bully’? Both, Insiders Say
The Disney+ boss and potential successor to Bob Iger is widely admired for his dealmaking prowess but he’s also feared internally for an unrelenting personal style
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Ronan Farrow on ‘Lies’ by NBC News and What’s Next After ‘Catch and Kill’ (Podcast)
The author talks to WaxWord about a “culture of complicity” that kept the voices of women quiet – and that nearly silenced him
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Welcome to the Power Women Summit 2019 and a Hollywood Bringing Change
What we are seeing overall is a new determination to drive deep roots into the soil of change
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A Note to our Readers: TheWrap is Evolving, With Your Help
You’re invited to create a user account so we can better offer the content you love
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Viacom’s Marva Smalls Talks About Creating a ‘Culture of Inclusion’
“It’s necessary to start this work at the top,” Smalls tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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Ronan Farrow’s Target Isn’t Harvey Weinstein – It’s NBC News: a Media #MeToo
A tale of how institutions — even those devoted to telling the truth — will sometimes choose self-preservation and the status quo over exposing powerful people in their own social, political and business circles
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Director Todd Phillips on Making ‘Joker’: Art Is ‘Meant to Be Complicated’
“What’s astounding to me in this discourse in this movie is how easily the far left can sound like the far right when it suits their agenda,” filmmaker says
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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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