Barry Diller Eyes Paramount Bid, Howard and Grazer Look to Sell Imagine Entertainment and How Academy Museum Got It So Wrong

Plus: Paramount+ weighs merger with another streamer, Biden goes off-script at Hamptons fundraiser and Fubo and NBCUniversal strike Olympics deal [Barry Diller attends the Expedia One Key launch event in New York City]( [Barry Diller Eyes Paramount Bid Following Skydance Fallout | Report]( By Sharon Knolle and Lucas Manfredi Barry Diller is exploring a bid to take control of Paramount, the parent company of CBS, MTV and Nickelodeon, the New York Times reported on Monday. Diller’s company IAC has signed nondisclosure agreements with National Amusements, the holding company of Paramount’s controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, sources told the outlet. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brian Grazer and Ron Howard attend Lucasfilm and Imagine Entertainment's "Willow" Series Premiere in Los Angeles]( [Ron Howard and Brian Grazer Look to Sell Imagine Entertainment | Report]( By Umberto Gonzalez Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are looking to sell their Imagine Entertainment banner, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The company has retained JP Morgan for strategic guidance. The sale could allow global merchant bank Raine Group, Imagine’s main investor since 2016, to exit. Imagine is profitable, but its revenue and potential sale value are unknown, according to the WSJ report. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences CEO Bill Kramer]( [Hollywood’s Jewish Founders: How the Academy Museum Got It So Wrong, Twice]( By Sharon Waxman Their dominance became a target for wave after wave of vicious antisemitism, from fire and brimstone evangelicals in the teens and early 20s who demanded the movies’ liberation from the hands of the devil…to Red-baiters in the 40s for whom Judaism was really a variety of communism and the movies their chief form of propaganda… Ducking from these assaults, the Jews became the phantoms of the film history they had created, haunting it, but never really able to inhabit it. — “An Empire of Their Own,” Neal Gabler IN THE LAST MONTH, the culture wars raging around antisemitism have come home to roost at Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its new museum on Wilshire Boulevard. After the museum initially failed to recognize the Jewish founders of the industry in 2021, this year the exhibit aimed at righting this lapse managed to insult and offend instead of making amends. TheWrap, which broke this story in early June, looked deeply at the reasons why the Academy managed to get it wrong, twice, and what it says about the heightened sensitivity of this cultural moment. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paramount Office of the CEO]( [Paramount+ Weighs Merging With Another Streaming Platform | Report]( [President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden speak at a watch party for the CNN presidential debate]( [Biden Goes Off-Script for Lifeless Joke at Hamptons Fundraiser, Admits He Seems 25 Years Older Than Jill]( [paris-olympics-peacock]( [Fubo, NBCUniversal Strike Paris Olympics Content Deal Amid Venu Antitrust Lawsuit]( [Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump participates in the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia]( [Supreme Court Kicks Trump Immunity Case Back Down to Lower Court, All But Ends Chance of Trial Before Election]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WrapPRO logo] Discover why entertainment executives and professionals rely on the WrapPRO platform daily for exclusive coverage, analysis, deeper reporting, and access to VIP events & screenings throughout the year. [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( TheWrap | 2034 Armacost Ave Los Angeles, CA 90025 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe]( [LiveIntent Logo]( [AdChoices Logo](