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.
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Lionsgate Urges Shareholders: Reject Icahn
Sets May 4 date for special shareholder meeting
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Is Nikki Finke for Sale Again? (updated II)
Word comes that she’d held conversations about reselling
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Icahn to Feltheimer: ‘You’re No Visionary’
Lionsgate’s response: “THBPBPTHPT!”
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Weinsteins Nab ‘Company Men’
Company acquires domestic rights in “mid-seven-figure” deal
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Lionsgate Board Rejects Icahn’s Latest Takeover Bid
Studio’s co-chair: “We believe nothing has changed”
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Kvell City: TheWrap Sweeps L.A. Press Club Noms
Los Angeles Press Club announces nominees – we’re in four of five online categories
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Restaurant That Served Whale Meat Closes Its Doors
Santa Monica’s “The Hump,” outed for serving whale by “The Cove” filmmakers, chooses to close
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MGM’s Options: Time-Warner Bids $1.5B, Debt Deadline Extended Again
The studio announces that bids are in – Time-Warner has made all-cash offer of $1.5 billion
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Icahn Ups Offer, Now Wants All of Lionsgate
Billionaire corporate raider makes bold play for studio, threatens to sue over “poison pill”
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Valuation Expert Seth Willenson Says MGM Price Too High
He tells WaxWord: “A bunch of well intentioned, highly educated analysts are going to overpay for MGM”
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MGM Deadline Passes: No Bids Confirmed
Clock ticks as CEO Jeff Bewkes must decide on whether and how much to bid for the coveted MGM
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Disney Extends Miramax Bidding Deadline
Two bidders remain, and it looks like the studio blinked
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MGM: Relativity, Malone Out, Time-Warner to Bid Low
Updated Thursday at 12:30 pm: Bloomberg reported that Time-Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes will be meeting tomorrow with Warner Bros chiefs Barry Meyer and Alan Horn to iron out the price. They’re also reporting, as I did, that bid will likely be low: $1.2 b to $1.5 billion. (I think that second number is the high…
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Not-So-‘Green’ Zone: Bad Blood at Universal
The Matt Damon thriller could lose $50 million for the studio — the finger-pointing has begun
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Hollywood Nervous About Cantor Exchange
Real investment in movie futures will be one more thing for executives to worry about ahead of release