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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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MPAA Mends Fences With Sony, Fox After Net Neutrality Blow-Up
New statement to FCC meant to quietly placate at least two studio chiefs
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News Corp. Gets Peek at MGM’s Books, After All
Bids are due Friday for the troubled studio
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Rich Ross and the High-Stakes Gamble at Disney
Rich Ross, like Bob Iger, is playing a high-stakes game at the studio that he now runs. With the ouster of studio president Oren Aviv on Tuesday, Ross has made a clean sweep of the regime that thrived for many years under studio chairman Dick Cook. The head of marketing is gone, the head of…
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Amy Pascal Makes the Tough Call on ‘Spider-Man’
In taking a deep breath and pulling the plug on "Spider-Man 4," Sony Pictures chairman Amy Pascal resolved a host of problems. They included: making a movie with a 35-year-old actor in the role of teenager Peter Parker, sidestepping huge, certain blockbuster costs in a declining DVD market and – most of all – avoiding…
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Leno: Anatomy of a Late-Night Meltdown
It started with an affiliate phone call on Monday, and quickly unraveled from there
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Fleming Dumps Variety for Deadline
Good news for Finke, who has been trying to fill an east coast slot for months, more bad news for the trade
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MGM Library Cash Flow Underwhelms Potential Bidders
“The numbers are falling off a cliff, library-wise. They’re lousy”
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Debating Leno Move on CNN “Reliable Sources”
I speak with Howie Kurtz and David Zurawik
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L.A. Times Bumps News to Print Wall Street Journal
The L.A. Times announced Thursday that breaking news was going to have to take a hit in its print edition because of the closure of an Orange County printing plant. That’s bad enough — late-breaking news will be relegated to a back section and 80 more people will lose their jobs. But that’s not the…
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Cathryn Jaymes, RIP, and Quentin Tarantino: the Real Backstory
Jaymes never quite recovered from her abrupt firing by her most cherished client
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Grilled: Creative Coalition’s Bronk Defends Glaxo Funding
Criticized in NYT piece, the non-profit chief says the pharma sponsorship won’t corrupt the message
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Nikki’s Deadline Expands, in a Way
But New York reporter still a big mystery
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Hollywood Finds a Standard for Digital Movie Downloads
Movie and tech companies agree to single format, but Disney and Apple haven’t joined
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Hollywood Cuts, Retools and Looks to the Future
In 2009 Hollywood underwent a necessary correction, putting the industry on healthier footing
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In Beatty-esque Denial, Warren Says New Bio Inaccurate, Boring
Leave it to Warren to grant interviews over two decades, then change his mind