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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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5 Takeaways From TheGrill 2021: Change Is Permanent and ‘Great Is Everything’
I got a lot smarter last week: here’s what I learned about the future of media
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Welcome to TheGrill 2021: How to Ride Hollywood’s Consolidation Wave
What you think you know about the content business is changing minute by minute. But we’ll keep you up to speed, join us!
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Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson Claps Back at NY Times’ Ben Smith: ‘Bulls–t Ad Hominem Attack’ (Exclusive)
It’s a real media pissing match after Smith accused Ozy of inflating web and video numbers
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RIP Time’s Up – What the Hell Just Happened? | Analysis
The idea that powerful Hollywood women could strike a loud and decisive blow on behalf of gender equity has died
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Meltdown at Time’s Up as Tina Tchen Resigns: Can the Nonprofit Survive? | Analysis
“This could have all been different,” one survivor who tried to speak to Time’s Up leaders last year says
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TheWrap Scores 13 SoCal Journalism Award Nominations, Including Best Website
Editor in chief Sharon Waxman and Film Editor Beatrice Verhoeven both land nominations for journalist of the year
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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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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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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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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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