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About The Wrap News TheWrap is the leading, authoritative digital news organization covering the business of entertainment and media. Founded by award-winning journalist Sharon Waxman in 2009, TheWrap is the only independently owned Hollywood trade, serving as a reliable and trusted source of breaking news, investigative reporting, expert analysis, exhaustive awards season coverage and in-depth features for over a decade.TheWrap has won multiple awards for investigative reporting, columns, criticism and feature writing.

2023 ShortList Film Festival, chosen from award-winning shorts from across the world in the past year. This year’s films tell personal stories that captivate and inspire — including a film about two Chinese grandmothers, a film about scuba diving in the ruins of a tsunami and one film about the LAPD blowing up a neighborhood.The films – which include narrative, documentaries and animation - are available to watch and vote on from June 28 through July 12, exclusively on TheWrap. The award-winning short film that is chosen by TheWrap’s Industry Jury will be honored with the prestigious Industry Prize.

Deadline reported that the employee involved was CNBC anchor and senior international correspondent Hadley Gamble, who is currently based in Abu Dhabi, according to a profile on CNBC’s website. Shell’s relationship with her reportedly started about 11 years ago up until a couple of years ago when it ended.

Chris Licht called Lemon’s remarks “upsetting, unacceptable, and unfair to his co-hosts, and ultimately a huge distraction to the great work of this organization.” In the same call, Lemon apologized to CNN staffers for his remarks and also posted an apology on social media. “The reference I made to a woman’s ‘prime’ this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it,” he tweeted.

have to tell is critical. “Compelled, obsessed — I mean, you have to really love [a topic].

“Navalny,” the documentary feature telling the story of activist, journalist and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after he was poisoned with a nerve agent in an August 2020 assassination attempt and lived to tell the tale, has been making waves since it’s award-winning Sundance premiere in January 2022. Now it’s nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, as well as both the Producers and Directors Guild Award for achievement in documentary filmmaking.

Krieps and director Maria Kreutzer stopped by TheWrap and Shutterstock’s Interview and Portrait Studio at the Toronto Film Festival to talk about “Corsage,” which follows the Empress (Krieps) on her 40th birthday, an age that, according to 19th century Bavarian society, made her an old woman. Feeling increasingly isolated by both royal circles and her own husband, Emperor Franz Joseph (Florian Teichtmeister), Elisabeth finds herself imprisoned by her own elite status and starts looking for any way to rebel against it, no matter how small.

glowing reception. With Viola Davis starring as General Nanisca, commander of the Agoije, an all-woman army that defends the Kingdom of Dahomey, the film depicts an ongoing war with the Oyo Empire and the leadership of Dahomey’s newest ruler, King Ghezo (John Boyega).

served custody papers on behalf of her ex Jason Sudeikis while on stage. For the director, the moment was “a huge breach in security, which is really scary.”Wilde was on stage presenting footage from her upcoming film “Don’t Worry Darling,” starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, in April, when she was mysteriously interrupted by an unidentified person who approached from the audience and slid a manila envelope in her direction.

Hollywood’s Homeless Crisis: Meet a Musician Who Played With BB King, Now Living on the Streets.”The story, which won in the Online Entertainment News – Music/Performing Arts category, was recognized by the judges in this way: “This story is written beautifully and provides the reader with a window into the duality of living conditions in Hollywood/LA. Paul Jacobsen carries his harmonica everywhere, and the way Jeremy Fuster describes that carries the piece.

Utopia has acquired the U.S. rights to writer-director-producer Lena Dunham’s Sundance comedy “Sharp Stick,” which follows a young woman’s unexpected quest of sexual exploration and self-discovery, Utopia announced on Monday.Utopia will release the film theatrically in the U.S.

Six months after 9/11, firefighter turned “Jihad Rehab” filmmaker Meg Smaker left her job as a Bay Area firefighter to travel to the Middle East to better understand the world she lived in.After making a pit stop in Afghanistan, Smaker moved to Yemen to study Arabic and Islam, and got a job there running a firefighting academy. “So I was a head fire instructor, teaching Yemeni men to fight fire in Yemen, which is where I was when I first heard about the rehab center, when I was living in Yemen and teaching a firefighting like course,” Smaker tells Sharon Waxman at The Wrap’s Sundance Studio.

In the film, Banks plays Joy, a smart wife and assistant to her lawyer-husband who discovers that she has been diagnosed with a rare condition that could kill her if she carries her unborn baby to term. But when her abortion is denied by an all-male medical board, she finds refuge with a group of women involved in The Jane Collective, an underground group secretly providing abortions in Chicago.The Jane Collective was a service that ran from 1969 until 1973 when the Roe v.

Sarah Paulson is responding honestly to criticism of her career choices.

The two stars discussed the double standard at TheWrap’s 2021 Power Women’s Summit as part of a spotlight conversation moderated by TheWrap’s founder and editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman.

SoCal Journalism Awards, including Online Journalist of the Year. “In covering the entertainment business and its personalities and often scooping other publications with breaking news, TheWrap’s founder and editor-in-chief, Sharon Waxman, is the Online Journalist of the Year,” wrote the judges for the award, which is administered by the L.A.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Lawrence Yee talk about the looming IATSE strike deadline that may bring Hollywood productions to a standstill.TheWrap’s film reporter Jeremy Fuster joins the discussion to talk about which productions would be affected by a strike, and which would be exempt.Then, a discussion about the internal fallout Netflix has faced over Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, “The Closer.” CEO Ted Sarandos has defended the special, but trans employees and their allies

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Lawrence Yee talk about the potential IATSE strike that may bring Hollywood productions to a standstill.Then, a discussion about whether Facebook should face government regulation.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Lawrence Yee discuss the lack of diversity among the Primetime Emmys acting winners, preview TheGrill 2021 with LA Times executive editor Kevin Merida and executive Casey Wasserman and explore why the casting of “Dear Evan Hansen” Broadway star Ben Platt may hurt the film adaptation’s chances.Then, an interview from the Toronto International Film Festival with “The Guilty” director Antoine Fuqua and star Jake Gyllenhaal on “The Guilty” and how toxic male rage

“Encounter” star Riz Ahmed says he was drawn to Michael Pearce’s film because he wanted to add an “extra layer” to the portrayal of an American marine who might not “look like” him.“I think the script in its original form was conceived for a different kind of actor than perhaps someone like me, because in a nutshell when you think of an American marine, you might not initially think of an actor who looks like me,” Ahmed said in a virtual interview with TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman

After directing the Oscar-nominated “RBG,” Cohen and West traveled to France to talk with chefs and contemporaries of Child from her days of training at Le Cordon Bleu before becoming a TV star with “The French Chef.” In an interview with TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman at the Toronto International Film Festival, Cohen and West discussed how COVID-19 hit right as they finished filming and how the experience of editing the film under quarantine deepened their appreciation for both Child and French

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed another up and down week at the box office, how “Jeopardy!” managed to bungle its new host hire and this year’s TheGrill panel.Then, Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad joined the podcast to discuss her ordeal as the target of a kidnapping plot by the Iranian government. She also talked about using her platform to help the women of Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

Kevin Mayer, Tom Staggs, Jeff Sagansky and Faiza Saeed will join TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman at TheGrill 2021, presented by WrapPRO, on September 29-30. “Acquire or Die: Navigating the Era of Mega-Mergers & SPACS” will address the explosion of Hollywood mergers and the ramifications of ongoing industry consolidation.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed a rough week for Chris and Andrew Cuomo, TLC’s decision to air a “Long Island Medium” 9/11 special and the problems at Time’s Up.Then, Renée Elise Goldsberry sat down with WrapWomen to discuss her Emmy nomination for her role as Angelica in “Hamilton” and her work on the Peacock series “Girls5eva.” She talked about how she thinks the diversity in “Hamilton” affected theater productions and whether or not she wants to see more shows

L.A. Press Club announced.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed the $900 million sale of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Mike Richards possibly getting the “Jeopardy!” hosting gig and the lasting fallout of Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against Disney.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed the decision to hire Jerry O’Connell as a host of “The Talk,” Disney’s success with the hybrid release of “Black Widow” and Chrissy Teigen lamenting her current status as a member of the “cancel club.”Then, we break down this week’s big hearing in the Britney Spears conservatorship case. We got some expert legal analysis from Benny Roshan, who chairs Greenberg Glusker’s Trusts and Probate Litigation Group, and David J.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed the shocking decision to overturn Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, the latest in the Britney Spears conservatorship and a “Black Widow” review that focused on Scarlet Johansson’s “sensuous” voice.Then we’re joined by Emily Vogel, who writes our WrapWomen blog and is about to launch a new podcast called “UnWrapped.” We talked about her plans for the podcast and her reaction to a series of news stories this week that felt like

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed Conan O’Brien’s late-night legacy, how the media’s coverage of Britney Spears is skewed to her favor and TheWrap’s event, TheGrill: Focus on Streaming.Then, Sharon sat down with “Mare of Easttown” star Julianne Nicholson. She talked about how she came aboard the project without fully knowing how her character’s story would end, why she doesn’t watch herself on screen and what a season 2 of the show might look like.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed the poor box office performance of “In the Heights,” a video game producer who retired after backlash over his voting record and the the negotiations over two different country music awards shows.Then, we have part four in our ongoing series, “Conversations on Cancel Culture.” In the final installment — unless of course there’s a bonus episode (hint, hint) — we discuss whether or not it’s possible to come back from being canceled.

TheGrill: Focus On Streaming on June 24, as part of TheWrap’s Grill event series. The conference, presented by FilmRise, will bring together producers, content producers and platform executives to discuss shifts in consumer behavior, consolidation and the platforms that support streaming.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed the big Memorial Day Weekend box office numbers, the drama surrounding Ellie Kemper’s beauty pageant appearance when she was 19 and the big paydays for Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.Then, it’s part two of TheWrap’s “Conversations on Cancel Culture” series.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed Amazon’s $8.5 billion purchase of MGM Studios, Kevin Spacey’s return to the big screen and the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend at the box office.Then, it’s part one of TheWrap’s “Conversations on Cancel Culture” series. In this discussion, we talk about how journalism had been effected by cancel culture.

not to play the part of the “strong Black woman” — a decision she discussed with TheWrap’s editor in chief, Sharon Waxman, during TheWrap’s BE Conference 2021 on Wednesday.“My acting teacher passed away recently. Her named was Dee Cannon, and she became a really good friend.

Also Read: Golden Globes 2021: Predictions in All 25 Film and TV Categories (Photos)Let’s start with the part that’s of the group’s own making.

“Shiva Baby” began as a 2017 short film by NYU student Emma Seligman based in part on her upbringing as a queer Jewish woman. Now, she’s turned it into a feature film that has earned rave reviews on the festival circuit, including at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.Seligman joined the film’s cast — Rachel Sennott, Polly Draper, Molly Gordon and Dianna Agron — to discuss the film with TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman.