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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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Inside the Oscars, ‘Parasite’ Points an Elated Hollywood Forward
The Academy wanted to fall in love with the social satire “Parasite” and its exuberant director Bong Joon Ho — and they allowed themselves to do so
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Sundance Lessons: How the Trump Era Has Focused Indie Filmmakers’ Lens
Sundance 2020: A sense of loss in the Trump era and a longing for escape from our current reality suffused the festival
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How Much Is Too Much? The Coming Avalanche in Streaming Entertainment
I’m not sure any of us are prepared for the implications of new entrants Peacock, HBO Max and Quibi
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The Decade When Hollywood Cracked Open – In Praise of the 2010s
How women and other underrepresented groups found their voices in a disrupted Hollywood
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The Echoes of ‘Just Mercy’ in Montgomery, Alabama – and Beyond
The past feels present everywhere in Montgomery, Alabama, where civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson set up his Equal Justice Initiative 30 years ago. Sponsored content presented by Warner Bros.
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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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