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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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Inside Disney: How the Bob Iger-Bob Chapek Rift Led to the ScarJo Blunder
Insiders tell TheWrap that Iger is “mortified” that Johansson ended up suing the studio
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Movies
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Facebook’s Ugly Update: Everything You Knew Was True, But Worse
it’s evident that Facebook is not ever going to do a good enough job at keeping our democracy safe. The question is: What are we going to do about it?
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Where Are We Headed? Our Summer of Beauty and Dread
I fear that we are in a moment of interregnum, not a reset after our brush with Trumpian catastrophe
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Lessons From the Cancel Culture Era: Is It ‘Shifting the Discomfort’ or ‘A New Kind of Censorship’?
Our four-part series highlighted the complexities of living in a time when social media has intensified the speed and virulence of public censure
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CBS Balks at Airing 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards Over $22 Million Asking Price, Declining Ratings (Exclusive)
Dick Clark Productions is shopping the show to NBC as part of a deal to renegotiate the troubled Golden Globes, TheWrap has learned
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TV
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A Merger Wave Sped Up by the Pandemic Will Transform Hollywood
A paradox: The number of companies that distribute mass entertainment is shrinking even as the volume of content is exploding
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Journalism
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US Newspapers Regularly Rejected Political Cartoons on Trump, Top Distributor Says (Video)
“Editors have become more timid,” says Daryl Cagle, who oversees a syndicate of 70 editorial cartoonists that service more than half the nation’s newspapers
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As Netflix, Amazon Boycott HFPA Over Reforms, Could the Golden Globes Get Canceled?
The response from activist groups and top streamers: Not enough. Too slow. Awfully vague
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Columns
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The Incredible Journey of Chloé Zhao and Other Reasons to Celebrate Diversity at the Oscars
For those who still think the glass is half-empty, I see it filling up
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Golden Globes Group Faces Existential Threat as Diversity Crisis Grows: ‘Evolve or Die’ (Exclusive)
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s diversity and PR consultants quit after a disastrous meeting with Time’s Up and publicity leaders
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Awards
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Dick Clark President Accused of Abuse, Inappropriate Language at Previous Job (Exclusive)
Amy Thurlow is “in way over her head” as president of Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions, an insider tells TheWrap
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Awards
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5 Top Executives Quit Dick Clark Productions Amid ‘Toxic Culture’ Complaints (Exclusive)
Insiders complain about the management style of DCP President Amy Thurlow
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Business
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HFPA Rejected Press Conferences for Black-Led Projects Like ‘Bridgerton,’ Insiders Say (Exclusive)
None of the films or series ended up getting Golden Globe nominations, despite other honors
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Awards
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70 Hollywood PR Firms Threaten Golden Globe Blackout in Mass Action
A letter issued to the HFPA is to be expected on Tuesday, one insider tells TheWrap
