Sharon Waxman, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. She is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, and was a Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times. Twitter: @sharonwaxman
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Investor Group Backing Bronfman’s Paramount Bid Includes Crypto Magnate Brock Pierce, Kazakh Heir | Exclusive
Kazakh investor Nurali Aliyev joins Fortress and producer Steven Paul in the last minute $4.3 billion bid
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What’s the Path for Warner Bros. Discovery After Dismal Earnings, Sunk Stock Price and Shrinking Options? | Analysis
Warner stock has sunk by 70% since its April 2022 merger with Discovery, and Wall Street is calling on the David Zaslav-led media giant to explore strategic alternatives, such as asset sales
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Kamala Harris Has an Unprecedented Hollywood Power Base – and It’s Already Gone to Work for Her
From Disney’s Dana Walden and CAA’s Bryan Lourd to Beyonce and Octavia Spencer, Harris is practically without peer in industry support
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Why ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Turned J.D. Vance Against Hollywood — and the Media
He told his partners, “I’m done with Hollywood,” as he turned to support Donald Trump and policies he once disdained
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‘Rust’ Trials Leave Clues to Mystery of Live Bullets on Set – and a Likely Answer
TheWrap reviewed the testimony, exhibits, body cam and interviewed relevant parties to reach a simple answer
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Hollywood’s Family Business: Paramount Passes From the Redstones to Ellisons
Whether it was called Viacom or CBS or Paramount Global, Paramount has been an actual family business, and will remain so
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Jeffrey Katzenberg Under Fire From Hollywood Biden Donors: ‘Jeffrey Lied’
“Everyone is furious,” says a leading Hollywood Democratic insider. “People are pissed – they feel betrayed.”
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Paramount, Skydance Merger Is on Again in $2.4 Billion Deal
But NAI’s controlling shareholder Shari Redstone might be setting off a bidding war ahead of Sun Valley
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Business
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Candle Media to Split Animation, Live-Action Businesses, Cut Costs
The Blackstone-backed studio will fold animation projects into Moonbug Entertainment and rebrand their live-action division to Candle Studios
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Hollywood’s Jewish Founders: How the Academy Museum Got It So Wrong, Twice
A controversy over the treatment of Jews in the museum exhibit touches the culture wars: “We will not and we do not tolerate antisemitism at the Academy,” AMPAS told TheWrap
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Academy Museum Deletes ‘Predator,’ ‘Tyrant’ and ‘Frugal Approach’ From Jewish Founders Exhibit | Exclusive
The organization promised to address concerns “immediately” on Monday
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Motion Picture Academy Vows to ‘Thoughtfully’ Address Criticism of ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ in Exhibit on Jewish Founders | Exclusive
Outraged Jewish creatives say the exhibit that takes pains to point out Hollywood founders’ flaws with terms like “oppressive,” “tyrant” “predator,” “frugal”
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Why Hollywood Is Too Exhausted and Scared to Enjoy Donald Trump’s Conviction
The exhaustion is palpable along with the sense that if justice was served, Trump may still end up president, anyway
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Media
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Why the ‘Feud’ Actresses Would Never Trade Places With Capote’s Swans
TheWrap magazine: Naomi Watts, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart and Molly Ringwald talk fame, privacy and how the world has changed for women since the Swans era
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Women Recoil in Cannes as Harvey Weinstein Still Looms, While a Sexist System Persists
Only four of the 22 films in the main competition this year — less than 20% — were made by women filmmakers
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