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  • Sundance Slugfest: The Blow by Blow

    Emotions boiled over at Sundance when film critic John Anderson repeatedly punched veteran publicist Jeff Dowd.

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    Amy Kaufman

  • Warners slashes staff by 10%

    800 jobs are expected to be lost at the Hollywood studio, according to a studio memo.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Obama’s Work Is Just Beginning

    As the new president is left alone in the Oval Office to face the mountain of problems awaiting his attention, Hollywood will start reading the fine print.

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    Johanna Neuman

  • Be Obama

    Here’s the journey, and here’s the moment of arrival, and here we all stand together at the threshold of opportunity. An inauguration. Change has arrived. Barack Obama is our president. This man, so young and untested, so average in height, and slight of build, is telling us – he is showing us by his existence…

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  • Oprah at the Inauguration

    Oprah Winfrey has been a very busy woman at this week’s inaugural festivities. Sunday night, the talk show queen attended a private buffet dinner at Blair House with now-President Obama, according to Entertainment Tonight. When approached by the outlet, Oprah pal Gayle King exclaimed "You guys are good! How did you hear that? Boy you people…

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    Tim Doyle

  • Vintage Ovitz

    Turning intermittently from screenwriting, teaching screenwriting and photographing permutations of writing, its process, its physical and emotional results, I decided to start a side project — a series of photographs of the power centers of Hollywood, past, present, future as the digital age changes everything in greater and greater leaps.   For that purpose, I…

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    Tom Benedek

  • Call Me Slim: New York Times Falls in Love With a Mexican

    The New York Times was rescued by a white knight – well, maybe – in the shape of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

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    Wrap Staff

  • SAG Strike Vote on Hold as Moderates Blast Back at Doug Allen

    Crisis reigns within the Screen Actors Guild. As SAG national executive director Doug Allen digs in his heels in reaction to the attempt to oust him, the moderates on SAG’s national board are fighting back. The opposition group Unite for Strength responded Monday to Allen’s letter to the guild’s membership on Sunday by blasting Allen…

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    Maria Russo

  • Inauguration ushers in new era

    Change has arrived with Barack Obama, but he also seems sure to usher in a period of radically changed relations between Hollywood and the power structure in Washington.

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  • What Recession? At Sundance, They’re Still Grabbing Swag

    What was that about a new era of austerity as the recession rages on? At Village at the Yard on Sunday, a slew of lesser-wattage stars were stuffing their bags with goodies at the swag suites, putting to the lie pre-Sundance speculation that publicists would be wary of allowing their clients to help themselves to…

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    Amy Kaufman

  • The Park City Scene: Party Fatigue Sets In

    By Monday evening, crowds at the Eccles theatre had quieted for the premiere of “Adventureland,” Miramax’s 80s tale of love between two post-college kids who spend their summer working at a depressed amusement park. The film is from director Greg Mottola, who worked on “Superbad” and directed episodes of “Undeclared” and “Arrested Development.” The idea…

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  • This Time the President Is the Celebrity

    So many A-list celebrities are in town for the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama that the Washington Post predicted red-carpet gridlock.

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    Johanna Neuman

  • Allen blasts SAG’s moderate wing and seeks to circumvent the board

    Doug Allen isn’t backing down, blasting the moderate wing of the guild’s national board, which nearly fired him a week ago.

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    Dave McNary

  • $33.8 Million for Fat Guy Comedy? A Box Office Surprise

    “Paul Blart, Mall Cop” far exceeds expectations with an impressive $33.8 million weekend box office.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Sundance News: Steady Sales With $3 Million Sony Purchase of Hornby’s “Education”

    Sundance began heating up with the Saturday premiere of Antoine Fuqua’s cop drama “Brooklyn’s Finest.”

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    Amy Kaufman