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Rich Battista Quit as Imagine Entertainment CEO After Clashes With Staff: ‘A Real Hothead’ (Exclusive)
By Sharon Waxman and Trey Williams | December 9, 2019 @ 6:10 PM”Short temper. Short fuse,“ one insider says of shortlived CEO
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Jay Roach vs Todd Phillips on Whether ‘Woke Culture’ Is Killing Comedy Movies
By Sharon Waxman | November 25, 2019 @ 3:34 PM”Everyone is too touchy,“ Phillips, the director of ”Joker,“ tells me — but ”Bombshell“ filmmaker Roach feels otherwise
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Thom Geier Steps Up to Become TheWrap Executive Editor
By Sharon Waxman | November 8, 2019 @ 6:30 AMGeier presided over record online traffic growth and multiple awards at the leading digital news site
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Disney Boss Kevin Mayer: Brilliant Dealmaker or ‘Bully’? Both, Insiders Say
By Sharon Waxman | November 6, 2019 @ 6:00 AMThe Disney+ boss and potential successor to Bob Iger is widely admired for his dealmaking prowess but he’s also feared internally for an unrelenting personal style
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Ronan Farrow on ‘Lies’ by NBC News and What’s Next After ‘Catch and Kill’ (Podcast)
By Sharon Waxman | October 28, 2019 @ 9:08 AMThe author talks to WaxWord about a ”culture of complicity“ that kept the voices of women quiet – and that nearly silenced him
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Welcome to the Power Women Summit 2019 and a Hollywood Bringing Change
By Sharon Waxman | October 25, 2019 @ 6:34 AMWhat we are seeing overall is a new determination to drive deep roots into the soil of change
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A Note to our Readers: TheWrap is Evolving, With Your Help
By Sharon Waxman | October 18, 2019 @ 1:36 PMYou’re invited to create a user account so we can better offer the content you love
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Viacom’s Marva Smalls Talks About Creating a ‘Culture of Inclusion’
By Sharon Waxman | October 17, 2019 @ 9:36 AM”It’s necessary to start this work at the top,“ Smalls tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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Ronan Farrow’s Target Isn’t Harvey Weinstein – It’s NBC News: a Media #MeToo
By Sharon Waxman | October 13, 2019 @ 6:18 PMA tale of how institutions — even those devoted to telling the truth — will sometimes choose self-preservation and the status quo over exposing powerful people in their own social, political and business circles
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Director Todd Phillips on Making ‘Joker': Art Is ‘Meant to Be Complicated’
By Sharon Waxman | October 1, 2019 @ 12:55 PM”What’s astounding to me in this discourse in this movie is how easily the far left can sound like the far right when it suits their agenda,“ filmmaker says
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MoviePass Parent CEO Bids to Buy Shuttered Service, Take it Private
By Sharon Waxman and Trey Williams | September 17, 2019 @ 4:00 AMTed Farnsworth resigned the top post of Helios and Matheson Analytics in order to bid for MoviePass
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Letter From Toronto: Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’ and Julie Delpy’s ‘My Zoe’ Offer a Split View of Divorce
By Sharon Waxman | September 10, 2019 @ 1:44 PMThe two films treat the same subject matter, but the difference in perspective is vast
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Letter From Toronto: Films on Striving to Be Black in America
By Sharon Waxman | September 7, 2019 @ 12:34 PMToronto Film Festival 2019: Beyond Black Lives Matter, ”Waves“ and ”American Son“ depict a netherworld where the upper middle class black experience teeters on the edge of tragedy
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ViacomCBS Merger Caps Hollywood’s ‘Eat or Get Eaten’ Consolidation Era
By Sharon Waxman | August 13, 2019 @ 2:28 PMConsolidation is essentially achieved across the industry. Now the mergers have to work
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2019 ShortList Film Festival Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for the Winner!!
By TheWrap Staff | August 7, 2019 @ 10:30 AMThe ShortList showcases 12 award-winning short films hand-picked from the world’s top film festivals of the past year