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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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Maggie Gyllenhaal on Hollywood Ageism: I Was Told 37 Is ‘Too Old’ for a 55-Year-Old Love Interest
“It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh,” the actress tells TheWrap
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Cannes Journal: Yachts, Jewels, Kering – and Elon Musk
Festival is always about wretched excess as much as it is about filmed art
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Cannes Market: Nigel Sinclair On New Start, Lessons Learned From Exclusive Exit (Exclusive)
“The takeaway for me from Exclusive is realizing that independent films can be made as good as studio films”
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Cannes Interview: Filmmaker Matteo Garrone On Reinventing Lost Fairy Tales, Love, Human Obsession
Says the director of “Tale of Tales”: “What I’m interested in is human conflict, the violence, the love, the obsession of the human being”
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Jake Gyllenhaal Hits Hard in ‘Southpaw’ Glimpse as Weinstein Company Unveils Strong 2015 Lineup in Cannes
The arthouse giant has one of its best-looking slates in years, with films from Quentin Tarantino, Antoine Fuqua and Justin Kurzel
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The Latest on the ‘Silicon Valley’ and Hollywood Divide: Periscope It
Hollywood storytellers are struggling to adapt to the new reality of 24/7 accessibility over social media . And now there’s Periscope!
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The Sony Emails: Hollywood Preserved in Amber
In the future, the flesh and blood people revealed in the emails will recede into archetypes of Tom Wolfe proportions
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7 Takeaways from CinemaCon 2015
Disney and Fox are strong. Sony is climbing back. Warner makes blockbusters (duh). Michael B. Jordan is a scorching movie star.
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Chelsea Handler Is Featured Speaker at TheWrap’s 1st Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco
Handler joins Kara Swisher, Ruth Vitale, Karen Appleton and editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman
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WikiLeaks Exposes Bromance Between Sony TV Chief Steve Mosko, Jay Penske: ‘You’re a 10 In My Book!!’
How close are Steve Mosko and Jay Penske? Closer than you knew
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I Won’t Vote For Hillary Just Because She’s Running and Female
I’d like to believe that Hillary Clinton’s being a woman would not matter to most of us. But we all know that’s hogwash
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Olivia Munn Joins TheWrap’s 1st Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco As Series Expands
Munn joins Kara Swisher, co-CEO and co-owner of Revere Digital and Ruth Vitale, Executive Director of CreativeFuture
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‘The Hunting Ground’ Director Kirby Dick on Rolling Stone Retraction: ‘Keep the Bigger Story in Perspective’
“False reporting of sexual assault is in the two-to-eight-percent range … People have to realize that the vast majority of sexual assaults are true,” he tells TheWrap
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Rolling Stone Retracts Rape Story But – No Consequences, Jann Wenner?
According to Wenner, this lapse was a one-off. Everybody at Rolling Stone can go about their business. Also, they’re super-sorry it happened. Um – what?
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STX Entertainment Chief Robert Simonds on Why He’s Spending $750 Million Making Movies This Year: ‘We Believe in It’
Simonds tells TheWrap: “We are throwing a lot of capital around, but we believe in it”
