Sharon Waxman

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Sharon Waxman

It was a small thing, but a big thing: Skydance CEO David Ellison spent Saturday night in Miami, ringside at a UFC fight with President Trump, Ari Emanuel, Elon Musk and the whole fawning Trumpland coterie, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cheryl Hines. Ellison is desperate to get his deal to buy Paramount through Trump’s federal regulators. He’s a registered Democrat who a year ago gave $1 million to Biden.

1 week ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Sharon Waxman

You’d never know a trade war was raging around the world at the one Hollywood conglomerate that — between its theme parks, big-budget movies, merchandise and cruise ships — has the most business at risk in China: The Walt Disney Company. China announced on Thursday that it would curtail the number of Hollywood movies that it allows to be released to its vast consumer market in response to Trump’s punitive 145% tariffs.

1 week ago | thewrap.com | Sharon Waxman

Between its theme parks, movies, merchandise and cruise ships — Disney has the most on the line in China April 11, 2025 @ 6:15 AM Disney's CEO Bob Iger poses with volunteers at Shanghai Disney Resort during grand opening in 2016.

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Sharon Waxman

Once split over theatrical windows and the siren song of streaming, legacy studios finally seem convinced that they need a solid theatrical business to support downstream revenue April 4, 2025 @ 11:09 AM Tom Cruise on the stage at CinemaCon 2025 (Getty Images) 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...

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sharon Waxman

One of the very big things that happened in the Year of Our Misery 2020 was something spectacularly good: an historic distribution of gifts by Mackenzie Scott — ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — of nearly $6 billion to more than 300 nonprofit organizations doing community-based work. These included large gifts to historically black colleges, to groups run by LGBTQ activists and old-school charities like Easter Seals, United Ways and Good Wills across the country.