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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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Hollywood Film Awards: Slowly Killing the Golden Goose
When are all these awards shows too much of a good thing?
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Sandy Grushow on Hollywood’s Need to ‘Connect West of the 405 With East of the 405’
Former Fox TV chairman Sandy Grushow is mining for gold in Silicon Beach – here’s why
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Inspiration Lifts TheWrap’s 6th Power Women Breakfast With Salma Hayek, Gail Berman, Arwa Damon
Hayek Joins Powerhouse Producer Gail Berman, Journalist Arwa Damon at Wrap’s 6th Power Women Breakfast
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Actor, Activist Salma Hayek to Speak at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast
Hayek joins powerhouse producer Gail Berman and Courage Award-winning journalist Arwa Damon
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Explodes at Intimate, First-Look Screening
The film offered up a stunning vision of a future in which the survival of humanity is not a given
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CAA Sale to TPG Ups the Talent Agency Arms Race – With Wall Street Providing the Bullets
“It’s a great time to be in the agency business if you’re prepared to adapt to a rapidly changing climate,” says an agency veteran
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Hollywood Reporter Veteran Ada Guerin Joins TheWrap as Creative Director
Guerin will be charged with evolving TheWrap’s design footprint while unifying the brand across its diverse platforms
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Hollywood Pay Disparity Complaints on Rise: ‘We Are All Serfs,’ Says Leading Producer
“We are back to 1900, to the age of the robber barons,” said this producer-director
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Hollywood’s Streaming Pile-Up: Should Netflix Be Running Scared From HBO, CBS, Starz?
“This is one of the strategic moves you can make when you control your own destiny,” CBS’s Jim Lanzone tells TheWrap
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Time Warner’s Vision: How Media Giant Wants to Do More With Less
The company unrolled an execution strategy in a remarkable display of growth plans while slimming down
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CAA Close to Selling Majority Stake to TPG Capital
The private equity firm already owns 35 percent but wants more of the talent agency
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‘Black Swan’ Producer on Why His Chilean Miner Movie Will Make $300 Million
After watching “The 33,” Mike Medavoy said, “I cried because I knew I’d pulled it off”
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My Top 7 Takeaways From TheGrill 2014: Data Science, Social Media and Charm Go a Long Way
Here’s what we learned from the interactions onstage and off
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Why Bob Iger Reconsidered His Retirement From The Walt Disney Co.
It’s a stunning turnabout that makes eminent sense: The 63-year-old CEO looked around — and decided he’d rather stay
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DreamWorks Animation Purchase by SoftBank Is ‘Bad Business,’ Leading Analyst Says
“The question is why buy a studio with such limited output?” asks BTIG’s Rich Greenfield
