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College Candy (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The subheading of Loot, by Sharon Waxman, is "The battle over the stolen treasures of the ancient world," which gives you a pretty good idea of the content. For any of you who have visited big museums such as the Met in New York or The British Museum, you know that the majority of their historical artifacts don't come from their homeland, but rather, fascinating and exotic places...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Sharon Waxman reports on The Wrap that Nielsen is set to sell a number of its magazines, including Mediaweek , The Hollywood Reporter , Billboard , Adweek and Brandweek . The reported buyer of this slew of trade pubs is James Finkelstein 's News Communications Inc. , which owns the Who's Who books and Washington, D.C. pub The Hill . As all media companies have struggled recently, it's...
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Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I've always respected veteran Hollywood journalist Sharon Waxman, who was among the first (the recent first, anyway) to blow holes in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and their Golden Globes hustle. The website, The Wrap, she launched isn't bad. It...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
The threat of a potential fatwa may have caused him to chicken out and remove footage of Islamic holy sites being spectacularly destroyed in 2012 , but we have a feeling that Roland Emmerich isn't losing much sleep over the fact that some have accused him of lacking artistic integrity. The Wrap's Sharon Waxman is reporting that the massive worldwide success of his latest film ...
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Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
"Several knowledgable executives" have told The Wrap's Sharon Waxman that director Roland Emmerich, that secret comedian, will pocked $100 million from his 2012 deal -- i.e., $20 million vs. 20% of the gross. Emmerich's faux-slapstick disaster film will eventually take in $700 million worldwide so Roland is beaming, sitting pretty, a pig in shit....
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N=1 (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... latest thoughtful post via Tom's brandsavant (which I encourage you to put in your reader), here . Sharon Waxman dials us in on the Comcast NBCU arithmetic, to wit: "...NBC was valued at zero for the purposes of the financial analysis." Read Comcast: It's a Brave New World, and Cable Runs It via her WaxWord stand at thewrap.com, here . Back with more, later.
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The release of Peter Jackson's two-part production of The Hobbit has been delayed a full year, Sharon Waxman reported on TheWrap.com Monday, citing executives close to...
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
FT.com | TheWrap.com Rupert Murdoch 's oldest son is teaming up with Pluribus Capital Management to bid for the bulk of Nielsen Business Media. That has Sharon Waxman asking: "What does such a savvy group of guys plan to do with these desperately sinking brands?"
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AdPulp (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It's been two weeks since Sharon Waxman broke the story about Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Editor & Publisher and other Nielsen trade titles being packaged for a sale. The other day, Editor & Publisher's Editor, Greg Mitchell, had this inside the bubble POV to share: Now, Ad Age is adding a bit more depth to the story. The entity bidding for...
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Advertising Age - MediaWorks (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... reductions and the sale of its Brazilian expo business. The proposed deal, first reported by Sharon Waxman at The Wrap, includes all international ventures related to the 28 titles, as well as events under the trades' brands. It does not include conferences unrelated to the titles, which Nielsen will keep. A Nielsen spokesman declined to comment on the sale. In addition to The Hill...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Sharon Waxman of The Wrap says that trade publication The Hollywood Reporter is being sold to James Finkelstein 's News Communications Inc., according to an unnamed source familiar with the negotiations. Waxman reports : The individual said that the Reporter , along with Billboard , Adweek , Brandweek and Mediaweek - which all have been struggling mightily in the past year - were...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Sharon Waxman reports that the Hollywood Reporter , which has been on the block since last summer, will likely soon be sold to News Communications, Inc. (along with other Nielsen-owned trades Billboard , Adweek , Brandweek , and Mediaweek ). There's currently no word on a sale price or what new publisher James Finkelstein might do with HR , but earlier reports suggested it could abandon...