Sharon Waxman

6 days ago | thewrap.com | Sharon Waxman |Drew Taylor

Peter Chernin has kicked the tires but passed, Ron Meyer is trying to raise money to buy the studio May 8, 2025 @ 6:00 AM Neon releases "Parasite", "Anora" and "Longlegs" (Credit: Christopher Smith for TheWrap) With a Best Picture Oscar fresh on its mantle after the triumph of “Anora” in March, Neon is headed to its favorite festival, Cannes, riding high.

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Sharon Waxman

If Redstone is not careful, her efforts will backfire and undermine the credibility of her CBS News division April 24, 2025 @ 9:38 AM Shari Redstone attends Paramount Pictures & DreamWorks Pictures host the premiere of "Ghost in the Shell" (Credit: Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) There is nothing more important to Shari Redstone at this moment in time than her fight against rising antisemitism. I know because she’s told me. I know because she said so just this week. “I’ve been...

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sharon Waxman

There is nothing more important to Shari Redstone at this moment in time than her fight against rising antisemitism. I know because she’s told me. I know because she said so just this week. “I’ve been fighting racism and antisemitism for a long time, but after Oct. 7, it became my life,” the executive chairwoman of Paramount Global said at a screening for a heart-rending new documentary, “Children of October 7,” airing on Paramount+ and one of her networks, MTV.

4 weeks 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 month 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.