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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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Golden Globes One Year After Meltdown: Are Reforms Enough to Save Embattled HFPA?
Critics say the central problems plaguing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association remain unaddressed: “You need to start from scratch”
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Awards
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What Warner Bros. Discovery Will Look Like and Why Jason Kilar Won’t Survive the Merger
“The company has been siloed for 30 years,” one insider says. “No one has time for that anymore”
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Media
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Jeff Zucker’s Complicated CNN Legacy: Leaked Insider Texts Say He ‘Destroyed’ the Network
“Cover the news. Don’t f— your subordinates. Jesus, how hard is that, anyway?” one former staffer writes
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TV
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Women Filmmakers at Sundance: Don’t Touch My Abortion
Sundance 2022: the films are reminding us what it was like when women did not have the right to choose
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When COVID Hits Home – the Cruelest Blow
My mom’s rapid decline shows you just how vicious this pandemic can be — and how damaging to the tissue of family relations
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2021 Wrapped: 3 Totally Unexpected Events That May Reshape Hollywood for Years
The year held some huge news shocks with the end of Time’s Up, the suspension of Golden Globes and the “Rust” shooting
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Welcome to TheWrap’s Power Women Summit 2021: Time to Represent
TheWrap’s fourth annual summit will be our biggest ever – thanks to you!
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Golden Globes Group Seeks to End Nonprofit Status Under CEO Todd Boehly (Exclusive)
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association proposal has alarmed reform-minded members of the group and was discouraged as “unjustifiable” by a lawyer
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Inexperienced ‘Rust’ Armorer Enraged Nicolas Cage on Previous Film: ‘You Just Blew My F–ing Eardrums Out!’ (Exclusive)
A crew member demanded that armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed be fired, but she went on to handle guns on “Rust”
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Movies
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‘Rust’ Shooting: Gun That Killed Halyna Hutchins Was Used That Morning for Live-Ammo Target Practice
Crew members had gone “plinking” and returned the gun to the set, an insider tells TheWrap
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Former Ozy Editor Suggests It Was Carlos Watson Who Impersonated Google Exec on Investment Call (Video)
Several insiders are questioning who actually spoke with Goldman Sachs, former editor at large Eugene S. Robinson tells TheWrap-Up podcast
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5 Takeaways From TheGrill 2021: Change Is Permanent and ‘Great Is Everything’
I got a lot smarter last week: here’s what I learned about the future of media
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Welcome to TheGrill 2021: How to Ride Hollywood’s Consolidation Wave
What you think you know about the content business is changing minute by minute. But we’ll keep you up to speed, join us!
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Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson Claps Back at NY Times’ Ben Smith: ‘Bulls–t Ad Hominem Attack’ (Exclusive)
It’s a real media pissing match after Smith accused Ozy of inflating web and video numbers
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Media
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RIP Time’s Up – What the Hell Just Happened? | Analysis
The idea that powerful Hollywood women could strike a loud and decisive blow on behalf of gender equity has died
