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Always read @sharonwaxman.bsky.social: “…the math will give you a headache. Paramount, market cap of around $12 billion, is buying WB Discovery for $110b. It’s the quintessential minnow swallowing the whale. It shouldn’t make sense. Maybe, we’ll find out, it doesn’t.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...
I wrote @nytimes about why Hollywood isn’t relieved that Paramount rather than Netflix will win Warner Bros: “After years of Covid, strikes, streamer wars, wildfires Hollywood is exhausted, angry, resentful & anxious. Now that Paramount has come out on top..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...
Ted Sarandos leaving the White House today. Tells the story. (photo by Getty)
WaxWord with the full backstory: What Paramount’s Winning Warner Bid Means: More Movies, More Debt and a CNN in Question www.thewrap.com/commentary-a...
BREAKING: Netflix Bows Out of Warner Bros. Race, Declines to Match Paramount's Bid story coming
Saturday read: former Sony CEO Michael Lynton's painfully honest look at the decisions that led to North Korea's devastating hack on his studio. He plumbs his own psyche and concludes he fell prey to the very human desire to be part of the "cool club." www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...
This #Seedance2 tech seems to be the one thing uniting Hollywood right now: Netflix Slams ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 as a ‘High-Speed Piracy Engine,’ Threatens ‘Immediate Litigation’ after Warner Bros., Disney,Paramount www.thewrap.com/industry-new...
Don’t miss this beautiful tribute to Robert Duvall by our Steve Pond: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
Don’t miss this beautiful tribute to Robert Duvall by our Steve Pond: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
Gulp. Quite a chart.
🧵WaxWord: Lots of news on the fall of Casey Wasserman: Insiders were taken aback at the decision to sell his stake. In fact, Wasserman intended to ride out the scandal after issuing an apology for associating with Maxwell and taking Jeffrey Epstein’s plane.Full story: www.thewrap.com/industry-new...
Sunday night Exclusive:Wasserman Agency to Be Renamed After Founder Casey Wasserman Sells His Stake www.thewrap.com/industry-new...
Update: Breaking @thewrap.com : Casey Wasserman Will Sell HIs Agency After Epstein Fallout. The CEO and founder of the sports and music agency informed his staff on Friday night... "I'm deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort. " www.thewrap.com/industry-new...
2/ ...for an international showcase like the Olympics. “It feeds into the anti-Hollywood narrative at a time when Hollywood needs help,” said one powerful individual who is frustrated to see the scandal buried. “Best case is he loses agents and weathers storm and keeps the LA28 job.”
A furious behind the scenes is pitting Wasserman against power broker Ari Emanuel, through various proxies. (Not including this reporter, I assure you.) Several people are furious about this, seeing Wasserman as an unacceptable representative of the city...
Check out the full conversation here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeqB...
Said Oliver Laxe: "All of us, we are psychologically broken but we hide this wound. We have a kind of neurotic projection of ourself. But I wanted to work with real ravers because they have this vulnerability. They show the wound. They show the scar.”
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Check out the full conversation with Jafar Panahi (“It Was Only an Accident”), Oliver Laxe (“Sirat”), Kaouther Ben Hania (“The Voice of Hind Rajab”), editor Olivier Bugge Coute (“Sentimental Value”) and casting director Gabriel Domingues (“The Secret Agent”).
It was an honor and privilege to speak to the filmmakers #Oscars2026 nominated for Best International Feature at the Culver Theater last night. The films they have made speak to the dangers of authoritarianism, betrayal and corruption along with memory, family and grace @thewrap.com
Real policing here.
Now @sharonwaxman.bsky.social is reporting at @thewrap.com that a group of Wasserman music agents have delivered Casey Wasserman an ultimatum: "sell them the music business and leave or they will leave the agency."
Additionally Chappell Roan is expected to leave Wasserman "imminently"
4/ Duffy McSwiggin, SVP of Music at Wasserman, senior agent Marty Diamond and several others are meeting tomorrow am to prepare a formal demand to Wasserman, I"m told. Full story here:
3/ / “What do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?” he wrote Maxwell, who is in jail for child sex trafficking. Wasserman is also under pressure to resign from chairing the Olympic committee LA28.
2/ Will leave to other agencies if he does not, they say. Billie Eilish already left a year ago over other ugly revelations abt Wasserman's private life while married. Epstein emails have his exchanges w Ghislaine Maxwell, where they flirt with intimacy.
WaxWord Sunday night Epstein scoop @thewrap.com : Wasserman’s top music agents have given CEO Casey Wasserman an ultimatum – either sell them the music business and leave, or they will leave the agency. Their clients like Chappell Roan, Joni Mitchell ... www.thewrap.com/industry-new...
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