@thewrap.com looks at M&A so far this year: media VC deals are falling – 70% year over year – compared to AI which is soaring. Here’s the story in charts, in partnership with #PitchBook: www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

@thewrap.com looks at M&A so far this year: media VC deals are falling – 70% year over year – compared to AI which is soaring. Here’s the story in charts, in partnership with #PitchBook: www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

Steve Pond's final predictions for Oscar night: "#Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s genre-bending rampage through the lens of a vampire story, has a record-shattering 16 nominations; “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s wild look at revolutionary fervor, has 13 www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

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...

Here's the full backstory: www.thewrap.com/commentary-a...

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...

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...

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"

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...

Jeff Bezos' statement, his first since last week's layoffs: "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus."

Same. 🥺

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Next Disney CEO Set: Experiences Chairman Josh D’Amaro to Succeed Bob Iger as CEO www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

(The Wrap) - CBS News is expected to cut ties with new contributor Peter Attia, a wellness expert, over his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, according to an individual with knowledge of Paramount’s thinking. @sharonwaxman.bsky.social @calderone.bsky.social #$PSKY www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

This @sharonwaxman.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece on the death of #indiefilm datelined #Sundance2026 is deeplly disspiriting. I know a heap of young filmmakers brimming with ideas and talent and know they'll find a way to express it. But lord it's tough. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

Our @thewrap.com review of #Melania: "Readers, I just took one for the team. Brett Ratner’s tasteless, tedious, criminally shallow propaganda puff piece “Melania” is nearly two hours of self-congratulatory torture." www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

An unhappy piece detailing the decline of U.S. Indy films. OG Journo @sharonwaxman.bsky.social, founder of #TheWrap, reports from Utah: “The decline of Sundance matters because it has nurtured the creative independence that drives innovation in…filmed storytelling.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

My new piece in @nytop : The Death of the Indie Film www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

New Waxword: Letter to Bari Weiss, Soaring Words for CBS, but Your Solutions Are Fuzzy. Weiss’s ideas about how to rebuild trust sounds an awful lot like the principles of basic journalism: equipping viewers with the facts, “even if it offends their sensibilities.” www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

WOW

Since 2020, there’s been a notable decrease in athletes’ social and political engagement—but after Minneapolis, that spirit seems to be flickering back to life, Jemele Hill writes.

Stars at #Sundance Express Grief, Outrage at Minnesota Violence: “Yesterday, I was crying all afternoon,” director Petra Volpe told TheWrap after screening her film, “Frank & Louis." “You cannot normalize this and pretend it doesn’t happen." www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

#Oscars noms: Ryan Coogler’s "Sinners" drama set in the Mississippi Delta made it into the history books on Thursday, racking up 16 Oscar nominations, easily beating the 14 originally set by “All About Eve” and tied by “Titanic” and “La La Land.” www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

This insane and horrible video shows ICE agents arresting a Hmong-ethnic US citizen - humiliating him, dragging him from his home - only to return him an hour later when they realized, whoops, he's American. I'm so ashamed of our country. The shame, the shame, the shame.

Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch Raids Penske Hollywood trades: Tatiana Siegel, Peter Kiefer, Katcy Stephans all jump ship to go to a new West Coast-based Page Six. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

Exclusive: My interview with #WarnerBros. chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy on their $4 billion 2025, and, yes, that Netflix deal. Also discussed: Their plan to get to 18 releases a year; Leaning into "puzzle box" marketing for movies like 'Weapons' - The disastrous box office of 'Joker 2'

Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch Raids Penske Hollywood trades: Tatiana Siegel, Peter Kiefer, Katcy Stephans all jump ship to go to a new West Coast-based Page Six. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

Exclusive: My interview with #WarnerBros. chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy on their $4 billion 2025, and, yes, that Netflix deal. Also discussed: Their plan to get to 18 releases a year; Leaning into "puzzle box" marketing for movies like 'Weapons' - The disastrous box office of 'Joker 2'

Our steve pond analyzes the #GoldenGlobes: "On a night when many of the winning films were timely examinations of loss and brutality, the show tried to cut the other way and looked silly doing it." www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

The more we learn about this horrific incident, the worse it gets.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.