TheGrill Update: Brian Robbins’ AwesomenessTV, From MCN to NBCU
As we prep for this September’s seventh annual TheGrill conference, we recap insights and opinions from last year’s panels on the changing media landscape
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I Took the Expo Line in Los Angeles – It’s Crowded and Buggy
We had a comically bungled experience where we encountered a rising din of discontent from Metro riders
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Why the Brexit Vote Is Making Everyone Panic
We all fear that the referendum is a sign of the times, a turn away from collaboration and toward insularity
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Stacey Snider’s Fox Takeover May Mean Personality Clash With Top Execs, Insiders Say
“I don’t see the three of them coexisting in 2017 — it’s tough,” insider says of Snider, production president Emma Watts and Fox 2000 head Elizabeth Gabler
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Steve Mosko Goes Shopping: Tribune Media Tops on His List (Exclusive)
Former Sony Pictures TV chairman met with banker Moelis & Co. in recent days to discuss the possibility of an acquisition
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Why Saying the Words ‘Gay’ or ‘Guns’ Matters in the Post-Orlando Debate
While conservatives get apopletic over whether President Obama says the words “radical Islam,” it turns out there’s plenty they won’t say either
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Orlando Shooting a Toxic Brew of Hate, But We Can Stay the Course of Tolerance
We must respond wisely if we are to be safe as a country, and safeguard our values as a democracy
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Lena Dunham on Life After ‘Girls’ and ‘Hellhound’ Trump at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast NYC (Video)
“It sounds so tiring to get bossed around by a dude for six months,” Lena Dunham says at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast
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Sony Executive Exodus: CEO Michael Lynton Flexes His Muscle
Departures of Steve Mosko and Doug Belgrad are power moves by a usually mild-mannered mogul
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Philippe Dauman Bracing for Life After Sumner Redstone and Viacom, Insider Says
Chairman and CEO has little recourse after removal from mogul’s trust
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Why We Have to Reject Peter Thiel and Defend Nick Denton
Thiel’s campaign may be legal, but over time it will have an insidious effect on free speech, vigorous journalism and even satire
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Sumner Redstone Insists He Ousted Philippe Dauman, Opposes Paramount Sale
Viacom fires back, saying Redstone is being ‘shamefully manipulated’
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Malin Akerman Opens Up About Turbulent Childhood, Early Career: ‘Comedy Was a Mask’ at Power Women Breakfast (Video)
“Coming to Hollywood, it helped me understand how to read people on an almost animalistic level,” the “Billions” actress reveals at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast
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Why the Sumner Redstone Trial Was a Sideshow – It’s About Viacom
In an op-ed for the L.A. Times, TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman offers her take on the Sumner Redstone trial
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Katie Couric: Why Aren’t We Talking About Guns in This Election?
“People’s eyes glaze over,” Yahoo news anchor explains while promoting her “Under the Gun” documentary
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Katie Couric Not ‘Nervous’ About Her Yahoo Future
The website’s global anchor says she is keeping her head down during the sale process
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The 5th Annual ShortList Film Festival Now Open for Submissions
The online festival announces 2016 dates
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Why Jeffrey Katzenberg’s DreamWorks Animation Finally Sold to Comcast
A couple of major pieces have moved on the landscape to make acquisition more likely — neither tied to movies
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Prince’s Inner Circle Attend Secret Memorial, ‘Therapy’ Session in Minneapolis (Exclusive)
Close collaborators Sheila E., Revolution band members Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman and ex-wife Mayte Garcia gathered secretly on Sunday
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Prince Insider: ‘His Energy Was So Intense He Didn’t Need Drugs’
Joel Bernstein, a former guitar technician for Prince, shares his memories of working with the artist
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Will ‘Hamilton’ Push Women to the Back of the $10 Bill?
The Broadway musical could end up changing the face of money – is this for real?
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6 Takeaways From CinemaCon 2016, or How Sean Parker Blew It
After four days, the consensus around keeping the status quo for theatrical releases hardened into a full-throated battle cry among exhibitors
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Disney Chatter: Should Bob Iger Stay? What About Steve Burke? Is a Takeover Possible?
“Running Disney is like running a country,” said one mogul. Another called an outsider pick the “kiss of death.” Read on…
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‘Demolition’ Star Jake Gyllenhaal on Taking Risks: ‘I’ve Upped the Stakes’
“There’s this weird line that I am liking to walk recently, which is trying to merge some life lessons into my work,” the actor tells TheWrap following a string of tough, surprising performances
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‘Billions’ Star Malin Akerman to Keynote at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco
The accomplished actress joins Dolby Laboratories head scientist Poppy Crum
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Disney CEO Search: Could Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Chernin, Barack Obama Replace Bob Iger?
Those qualified to replace Bob Iger as Disney CEO are limited to the top-tier of American executives — including Sheryl Sandberg and Barack Obama
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Disney Succession in Disarray: What COO Tom Staggs’ Sudden Exit Means
Media giant’s board now looks to outside candidates to replace CEO Bob Iger, whose contract is up in 2018
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‘Voice’ Judge Shakeup: Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys to Join, Pharrell Williams to Exit Next Season (Exclusive)
Blake Shelton and Adam Levine reupped as NBC balances big ratings and big costs, TheWrap has learned
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Garry Shandling’s ‘Larry Sanders Show’ to Return to HBO (Exclusive)
Deal was reached prior to Garry Shandling’s death at 66
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ISIS Justifies the Brussels Attacks in the Koran
Apparently they were piqued at being criticized on social media by Muslim peers
