Waxword
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
-
Friday Box Office: ‘Rango’ Opens Soft, Damon’s ‘Bureau’ Works It
UPDATED: Paramount’s big-budget animated feature is pacing to miss tracking by about $20M this weekend, but Uni’s “Adjustment Bureau” starts stronger than expected and should do over $20M
-
Exclusive: ET’s Kevin Frazier to Join Lara Spencer on ‘The Insider’
A shake-up at ET will move Kevin Frazier to The Insider, and Chris Jacobs to ET, we hear
-
It’s Official: Relativity Closes New Financing from Elliott (updated)
Updated: Kavanaugh raises money from his hedge fund to permit Relativity to finance more production and its own prints and advertising
-
AMC, Regal to Launch New Distribution Company: Open Road
Exclusive: The hush-hush distribution company seeks to break the mold on the current model, and offer exhibitors some new product
-
TheWrap’s Counsel Bert Fields Responds to Nikki Finke
“MMC has demonstrably and repeatedly violated my client’s rights, including but not limited to violations of the antitrust laws, as well as unfair competition and trade libel”
-
Variety Peeks Out From Behind the Paywall – News Blog to Debut
Exclusive: The trade, behind a paywall for more than a year, decides it wants people to know when it breaks stories
-
Kathleen Parker Bites Back: Spitzer Was a Bully, Say Friends
Friends of Kathleen Parker are furious at her being pushed out of the Parker-Spitzer show, saying the conservative columnist was set up to fail.
-
Party Pooper: Deadline Sends Cease and Desist Letter to TheWrap
On the night of its big Oscar party, TheWrap receives a strange cease and desist letter from Mail.com; did Finke write it herself?
By
Wrap Staff -
Big Warner to Trim New Line Further; Hopes Emmerich Will Stay
The independent division will shrink from the current staff of 50 to about 35, TheWrap has learned
-
Man Shot Dead in Dispute Over Eating Popcorn Too Loudly During ‘Black Swan’
Police in Latvia arrested a 27-year-old man for shooting dead a fellow audience member after he was criticized for eating popcorn too loudly
-
At the Speed of Twitter: The Revolution Spreads to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen
Twitter is the pulse of the fast-moving wave that is overtaking the Middle East as Gaddafi trembles, and Bahrain blinks
-
Meltdown at Abu Dhabi’s Imagenation: $100M Losses, Executives Ousted
Film fund doled out hundreds of millions in movie deals over the past two years – without almost any hits.
-
Roseanne Barr Grilled About Macadamia Nuts & Monsanto Poison
Exclusive! “I’m creating a utopia based on everything that isn’t bullshit”
-
The Day After the Revolution: Puncturing the Myth of Arab Immaturity
Privately the West has never believed that the Arabs were mature enough for democracy. Now change has arrived, and we better decide where we stand
-
The Daily’s Richard Johnson Flops With Nikki Finke Photo
It’s not even the Deadline founder — after two months in Hollywood, this is the best the iPad-only publication’s entertainment editor has got?