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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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Warren Buffett: I’ll Release My Tax Return if Rupert Murdoch Does
Says the investor and financier: “He and I will meet at Fortune… I’m ready tomorrow morning”
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Publicist Michael Levine to Ronni Chasen Tipster: Leave Me Out of It
Levine said he hoped to raise a reward fund for Chasen, but never did so
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Uncertainty at IMG as Board Wrestles With Removing Ovitz
Senior management conferred with legal counsel over the weekend as to how to remove Ovitz from the board
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New Hulu Bids Due This Week, But Sale Probability Wanes
While bids may be close to the desired $2 billion, the owners are vacillating over whether a sale is the best outcome
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Nikki Finke Exposed, Part 1: Desperate, and Out of Control
WaxWord will be exposing Finke’s poisonous maneuvers going forward in this space – here’s the latest one
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Insiders: Yahoo Sale Needs to Move Fast, or More Losses Are Coming
Who’s the buyer? Ex-News Corp. mogul Peter Chernin is one possibility — so is Marc Andreessen
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Why Haven’t Lionsgate and Summit Merged Yet?
It’s crushingly obvious that this merger is a deal that needs to happen. Both companies are too small to thrive in today’s brutal marketplace
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Summing Up TheGrill 2011 — a Buffet for the Engaged Brain
Spend a day and a half talking to some of the smartest people about the changes in the entertainment and media and you’ll feel full, too
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Why Nikki Finke’s Content Theft Lawsuit Is Interesting, If Still Batty
Finke is attempting something that is almost certainly impossible: Stopping reporters from picking up the phone and confirming news that her site has published
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Thoughts on 9/11: On the Importance of Intolerance
We are all changed as a result of 9/11. The message that we need to have learned is of intolerance
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Who to Run Yahoo? Strong Candidates Abound, But First — a Vision, Please
Strong candidates will be Ross Levinsohn, Jon Miller, Jason Kilar and what about ex-MySpace’s Mike Jones?
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Music, Meet Technology: Will.i.am to Close TheGrill 2011
Will.i.am, the innovative composer, performer, technologist and activist will be the closing keynote speaker at TheWrap’s conference in two weeks
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In ‘Warrior,’ Does Lionsgate Know it has a ‘Rocky’?
Decades ago another film came out of nowhere and told a story of a down-on-his-luck fighter when Americans needed to believe the little guy could overcome the odds
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Joe Roth Reflects on Revolution: ‘I Would Do Everything Differently’
“I would have been better off working on a few movies, bigger titles, than doing a piece of Sony’s slate.”
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Disney 2.0? Dick Cook Looks For Funding for Family Movie Studio
Does Hollywood need another family-friendly studio? That’s what Cook is reportedly looking to do