The Man Who Ate Hollywood

Ms. Waxman is the founder, chief executive and editor in chief of The Wrap.

If Hollywood has a supervillain right now, it’s the early-rising, bean-counting, hoodie-wearing, about-to-be-absurdly-rich David Zaslav.

Already, many saw the Warner Bros. Discovery chief executive as an accidental mogul. The deal-making protégé of the octogenarian cable mastermind John Malone, Mr. Zaslav was in the right or wrong place at the right or wrong time, depending on how you look at it. Thanks to a series of fortunate (for him) events, Discovery, his very basic cable TV........

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