Voices (Free subscription) | yesterday
For a few days, I waited for the other shoe to drop after Gawker's John Cook pretty much destroyed Deadline Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke.
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Dumenco: Nikki Finke offers Hollywood the thrill "of seeing a spun reporter do as told."
Defamer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Dumenco: Nikki Finke offers Hollywood the thrill "of seeing a spun reporter do as told."
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
AdAge.com Any exec with Nikki Finke 's number who thinks he can convince her that he's generously supplying her with real entertainment-business dirt needn't wait long to experience the thrill of seeing a spun reporter do as told, writes Simon Dumenco .
Advertising Age - MediaWorks (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
My old boss Caroline Miller, the former editor in chief of New York Magazine (I was on staff there when Nikki Finke wrote the Hollywood column), had some rather delicious quotes in the New Yorker piece -- stuff about Finke's torturously symbiotic relationship with former Miramax co-chief Harvey Weinstein. I asked her what she thought of Gawker's revelation. "In the Tad Friend piece,"...
rickwebb.net (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
“Nikki Finke says the Terminator concept is played. Well, here’s what I have to say to Nikki Finke: you are a fine journalist and please don’t ever notice me. The Terminator story is as formative and important in our culture — and my pretend play — as any I can think of. It’s far from over. And before you Terminator-Owners (I have trouble...
Medialoper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Today’s links of interest: Gawker Destroyed Nikki Finke. So Why Doesn’t It Matter?We wondered if anyone else caught this. Turns out someone was paying attention. Edwyn Collins stopped from sharing his music onlineThis is sad and scary. Especially the part about Warner Brothers claiming to own something they don’t and not fixing it right away. Visually-Impaired-Gamer-Sues-SonyHmm,...
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Sacramento's withholding tax increase, a new hit on Nikki Finke and fare hikes at Metrolink, plus much more after the jump. From the weekend: Mark Lacter on the Toyota scandal...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Robert Zemeckis and Disney’s new CGI “A Christmas Carol” was pretty much destined to take the weekend, and it did with an estimated tally of $31 million. However, Nikki Finke noted that the film was expected to make, she says, at least $4 million more. I am inclined to think that the word that this [...]
Home Based Business Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
CBC.ca Oprah's show rumoured for moveCBC.ca… its home base since launching nationally in 1986, and move to Los Angeles, according to the posting by Nikki Finke on her Deadline Hollywood blog. … and more »
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Nikki Finke delivers the top six at this weekend's Friday box-office and I don't think there is any big surprises here. As a matter of fact, I will be more interested in seeing how films such as The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Fourth Kind and The Box do in their second weekends. But [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... of Nick Counter ... and convey their deepest sympathy to his family." In a comment appearing on Nikki Finke's "Dateline Hollywood" blog over the weekend, one writer noted that the WGA saw fit to use the word "mark," not the standard "mourn," in its statement. However, Directors Guild of America leaders Gil Cates and Jay Roth praised Counter for his "resolute sense of fair play and...
The Celebrity Blog , Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity... (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Chicago without Oprah? That scenario loomed Thursday as a prominent show-biz blogger reported that Oprah Winfrey is getting ready to move her show to Los Angeles. Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood said Winfrey will announce the move in the next few weeks. It would take place when the talk show’s syndication ...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Time for our usual week-ending grab bag of left over and end-of-week movie stories… * Two executive deaths today. First was 76 year-old nearly lifelong Paramount executive Gino Campagnola. That was followed by Nick Counter of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. As Nikki Finke recounts, he was the guy whose job it was [...]
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Here are my thoughts on what happened this weekend at the box office, with Disney’s A Christmas Carol leading the way at $31 million. I know the $31 million is lower than some people thought it would do, and Nikki Finke was freaking out this weekend with headlines bashing Jim Carrey and implying he had another flop on his hands, but to be honest most movies would kill for a showing like...
