TheWrap hosted filmmakers, Hollywood players and fellow journalists on Sunday at the Venice Film Festival to toast cinematic excellence and the beginning of a new awards season with Steve Pond, ...

The decline in entries isn’t as big as it was last year, but it suggests that the TV industry hasn’t recovered from the hits it has taken in recent years ...

TheWrap magazine: “It turned out to be a huge pain in the ass, but also a pretty good story to tell,” says the singer-songwriter of “Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed” ...

TheWrap magazine: “I had to send them to Carey knowing that Marcus Mumford would listen to them and might have an opinion,” the writer-actor says ...

“She really felt that as soon as you make it about one person, it can be written off,” says director Liz Garbus of her and Lisa Cortes’ sobering documentary ...

TheWrap magazine: “I questioned whether I’d be the right person to tell the story (of “We are the World”), ’cause I wasn’t a huge fan of the song in the beginning,” says Bao Nguyen ...

Reznor and Atticus Ross’ “(If Only You Could) Save Me” was written for David Fincher’s film, but it didn’t make the Academy’s largest-ever eligibility list ...

Other films on the annual Oscar-predicting list include “Boys State,” “Collective,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” “The Fight,” “MLK/FBI,” “76 Days,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “Welcome to Chechnya” ...

TheWrap Emmy magazine: “We were toward the end of postproduction and thinking of a long nap,” says Anna Boden of her and Ryan Fleck’s decision to tackle the FX miniseries ...

TheWrap magazine: “I don’t think producers and studio people are willing to take the risk on a film that expands the cinematic language,” says the legendary DP of “Empire of Light” ...

TheWrap awards magazine: “I think people are recognizing that we’re here and we’re going to be part of this conversation about the best of the year,” says the company’s head of original films ...