Sharon Waxman
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Raine Group Close to Sale of Majority Stake in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment | Exclusive (opens the original)
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The Raine Group is nearing a deal to sell its majority stake in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment, exiting its 51% ownership that the company purchased for $100 million in 2016, TheWrap has learned. Three individuals close to the deal confirmed that Raine, led by co-founder Joe Ravitch and partner Erik Hodge, had accepted a purchase price. One individual said that the deal with a private equity-backed marketing firm was expected to close in the next two weeks. However, other M&
Hollywood Faces a Century-Defining Shift as Tech Tips the Power Structure (opens the original)
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I don’t think it’s too much to say that we are living through a once-in-a-century shift to the entertainment business. And a lot of us are wondering whether in this world of real-life “Hunger Games” we are the ones who get to survive. Change, as we know, happens slowly and then all at once. In the last year or two nearly all of Hollywood’s legacy studios have celebrated a century of existence and the many changes that have come through those decades, including the talkies, color television, cabl
Forget Quibi; Jeffrey Katzenberg Is Launching a Next-Gen AI Animation Studio (opens the original)
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Jeffrey Katzenberg has a vision for the next phase of Hollywood, and he’s jumping in to make it happen. Just after issuing a manifesto on Elon Musk’s X earlier this week urging Hollywood to embrace rather than fear AI, he spoke to WaxWord about his plans to launch a new animation studio focused on making quality film and television programming using the new technology. “For me, it is time for artists, creatives, storytellers, to actually seize the day,” he said. “These new AI tools are about inn
Veteran Filmmaker Barbara Kopple Returns to Worker Struggles in 'Union Town' Doc (opens the original)
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It’s been 50 years since Barbara Kopple won the Academy Award for “Harlan County, USA,” a documentary about coal miners who went on strike for over 13 weeks in Kentucky as they demanded better working conditions. Kopple’s personal approach, living with the coal miners and their wives, produced a landmark work of cinema verite. Now 80, she has just completed a new documentary about unions and workers, this time aimed at our gig economy – the vast army of unseen delivery workers who scrape by for
Gaza in Venice: 'Citizen Osama' is Piece of a Puzzle, But Never the Whole Picture (opens the original)
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The frustration of trying to understand what is happening in Gaza is exemplified in a new documentary screening at the Venice film festival called “Citizen Osama” by Ahmed Hassouna, which was also recently chosen as the Palestinian entry in the Best International Feature Film category at the next Academy Awards. Through the daily life of a young Palestinian father named Osama al-Ashi, the documentary reveals up close and in detail the suffering of Gazans and their struggle to survive during the
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