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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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Why ‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay Joined #BlackFridayBlackout Over Ferguson
“We are in a sad, distorted continuum. It’s time to really look in that mirror,” DuVernay tells TheWrap
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Letter From the Editor: About That Bill Cosby Post….
TheWrap’s CEO and editor-in-chief addresses reader outrage over Hollyblogger Richard Stellar’s op-ed
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Bill Cosby Scandal: What Took So Long for Us to Notice?
Hollywood be warned: we live in a world where full transparency is the rule, not the exception
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Hollywood Film Awards: Slowly Killing the Golden Goose
When are all these awards shows too much of a good thing?
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Sandy Grushow on Hollywood’s Need to ‘Connect West of the 405 With East of the 405’
Former Fox TV chairman Sandy Grushow is mining for gold in Silicon Beach – here’s why
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Inspiration Lifts TheWrap’s 6th Power Women Breakfast With Salma Hayek, Gail Berman, Arwa Damon
Hayek Joins Powerhouse Producer Gail Berman, Journalist Arwa Damon at Wrap’s 6th Power Women Breakfast
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Actor, Activist Salma Hayek to Speak at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast
Hayek joins powerhouse producer Gail Berman and Courage Award-winning journalist Arwa Damon
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Explodes at Intimate, First-Look Screening
The film offered up a stunning vision of a future in which the survival of humanity is not a given
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CAA Sale to TPG Ups the Talent Agency Arms Race – With Wall Street Providing the Bullets
“It’s a great time to be in the agency business if you’re prepared to adapt to a rapidly changing climate,” says an agency veteran
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Hollywood Reporter Veteran Ada Guerin Joins TheWrap as Creative Director
Guerin will be charged with evolving TheWrap’s design footprint while unifying the brand across its diverse platforms
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Hollywood Pay Disparity Complaints on Rise: ‘We Are All Serfs,’ Says Leading Producer
“We are back to 1900, to the age of the robber barons,” said this producer-director
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Hollywood’s Streaming Pile-Up: Should Netflix Be Running Scared From HBO, CBS, Starz?
“This is one of the strategic moves you can make when you control your own destiny,” CBS’s Jim Lanzone tells TheWrap
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Time Warner’s Vision: How Media Giant Wants to Do More With Less
The company unrolled an execution strategy in a remarkable display of growth plans while slimming down
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CAA Close to Selling Majority Stake to TPG Capital
The private equity firm already owns 35 percent but wants more of the talent agency
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‘Black Swan’ Producer on Why His Chilean Miner Movie Will Make $300 Million
After watching “The 33,” Mike Medavoy said, “I cried because I knew I’d pulled it off”