Nikki Finke

Best Of the Media Power Coupler App

​It was bound to happen.The new Media Power Coupler puts the most eligible/powerful media singletons together, in combinations that may shock, surprise, and totally ignore whether people are gay or not. The following is presented without (as in, with some) comment. As of this posting, we're st ... More >>

Nikki Finke Reacts to Her Power Bachelorette Ranking

​Out of the 50 media power bachelorettes featured in the New York Observer's list today, there was one that intrigued us the most: Nikki Finke, Hollywood industry news doyenne and notoriously secretive character. How did she feel about being in a list of bachelorettes? Is she even really a bachelo ... More >>

The Daily Loves Dogs and Other Ongoing iPad Newspaper Issues

​It's been just under two weeks since Rupert Murdoch and Apple announced the debut issue of their iPad newspaper The Daily at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. "In this exciting new era, we believe The Daily will be the model for how stories are told and consumed," said Murdoch, the News ... More >>

Nikki Finke Photo From The Daily Looks Legit

​Yesterday, we expounded on the saga of Nikki Finke, the uber-powerful Hollywood blogger behind Deadline.com, who refuses to be photographed and rarely leaves her house. She's also known to throw around threats, like negative coverage or worse, a blackout, for studios and websites should they ... More >>

Nikki Finke Photo Is Not Her, Says Nikki Finke, And It's Ugly; Did The Daily Do It For Buzz?

Finke?​Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper The Daily got its first attention for exclusive content (save a semi-viral James Franco graphic) this morning when it published a picture purported to be of Nikki Finke, the infamous Hollywood blogger and recluse behind Deadline.com, who refuses to be pho ... More >>

Nikki Finke Fighting The Daily Over Photo

​Nikki Finke, the fearsome Hollywood blogger behind the rich Deadline sites, is important enough to have an HBO show created in her image. She's also been called the most "despised and uncompromising journalist in Hollywood," breaking a lot of industry news, but just as often making enemies, y ... More >>

The 114 Most Important Lessons I've Learned at The Village Voice (Or: "2010, The Year I Ruined Your Media Outlet")

​After a 285-day stint, I am abdicating my post here at The Village Voice. I'm going to work for Esquire.com, so I may -- as one commenter noted -- continue my work as a "a twentysomething angel of death." Yet, while I was here, I learned some very important things, and had some very memorable mom ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Dropped as Porn Star Linda Lovelace

​Lindsay Lohan's big, serious comeback as an actress -- playing porn star Linda Lovelace in the gritty drama Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story -- has been cancelled, according to Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood. The much-hyped project will now star up-and-comer Malin Akerman (Watchmen, 27 Dress ... More >>

Week of Media Shitcanning Madness Continues: CNN's Jon Klein, NBC's Jeff Zucker

​Locally, we've seen some pretty intense media cannings take place, specifically at the New York Daily News, which also goes without mentioning Katy Perry being booted off Sesame Street. Well, this morning, news went wide of two more big ones: CNN president Jon Klein is out, and NBC-Universal ... More >>

The Sad Desperation of Variety: Still Trying to Punk a Punk Band, and Losing

​Variety, which was once an essential Hollywood trade rag, has seen their milkshake drunk by the internet over the last decade. They're one of those publications that has made no good faith effort to do anything to compete with the likes of Nikki Finke's now-indomitable Deadline Hollywood Dail ... More >>

BlogBeat: The New Yorker Is Working on a Profile of Nick Denton

​After a long hiatus, the column that cost this company a cool mil in advertising has returned! BlogBeat is back, and this week, we're coming out swinging. The New Yorker's working on a forthcoming profile of Gawker Media owner Nick Denton; Guest of a Guest has some disclosure indiscretions; a ... More >>

Who Is Gawker Trying to Stalke(r) Now? College Students, Available Stalkers: Find Out!

​For a while, infamous Manhattan media gossip site Gawker was synonymous with Gawker Stalker: A trademark real-time map of bitchy celebrity sightings reported to the site. Now, it's been relegated to a sad little tag, as they've grown up to doing the stalking and sourcing the stalkers in-house the ... More >>

What Nikki Finke's Agreement with HBO for Tilda Actually Is

​Speculation regarding iron-fisted, cantankerous Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke's involvement with HBO's forthcoming show Tilda -- which concerns an iron-fisted, cantankerous Hollywood blogger played by Glenn Close -- has run the scale from completely mystified, undue speculation to speculation ... More >>

Video: Jersey Shore Second Season Trailer, Bitchesssss!!!!!!!!!!! (With Village Voice's Exclusive "Sneak Peek!")

​Honorary "Guidette" Nikki Finke posted the trailer for the second season of Jersey Shore on Deadline Hollywood this morning. "We're ready to come out and destroy this place," the thing they call "Snooki" astutely notes. She's ostensibly talking about Miami, but, really, the single place in Am ... More >>

Shots Returned! Nikki Finke Responds to Director Joe Carnahan's FinkeRage Video

​Last night, we reported on a video made by The A-Team director Joe Carnahan in which he trashes on notorious Deadline Hollywood Daily blogger Nikki Finke, calling her a "fuckin' moron." Charming! Finke responded in kind this morning by noting "poor" Joe Carnahan "who's now officially unhireab ... More >>

Video: Shots Fired! Bitter A-Team Director Joe Carnahan Angrily Calls Out Nikki Finke

​Wow. Deadline Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke rules the film industry news cycle with an iron fist/"publish" button. There are plenty of things to say about Finke -- and people have -- but you can't say she minces words or plays favorites. Aside from what used to be routine needling on Gawker, ... More >>

Media Moves: Original Defamer Mark Lisanti Consumed by Infamous Maw of Yahoo

​Mark Lisanti--the highly-revered-by-other-bloggers blogger who was the original Defamer.com editor and helped make Gawker Media's name on the West Coast--is now going to be joining his fellow Gawker Media alumni John Cook and Brett "Cajun Boy" Dykes at what Gawker Media publish Nick Denton on ... More >>

Is Nikki Finke in Violation of FTC Blogger Laws with Tilda?

​Maybe you haven't heard, but HBO's new show, Tilda, concerns one "Tilda Watski [who] is the most feared woman in Hollywood because her website, The Daily Circus (header: "Founder and Editor Tilda Watski"), takes aim at the town's most powerful moguls." Which, among other details, sounds like ... More >>

Megan Fox Claims She Wasn't Fired From Transformers

​The living inflatable doll is insisting she dropped her option on the franchise, not director Michael Bay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Nikki Finke swears it was Bay who popped Fox's balloons and sent her flying, and this might be poetic considering foxy Fox once compared him to Hitler (and not fav ... More >>

BlogBeat: Sharon Waxman Won't Be Jacked by Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff will aggregate Sharon Waxman's smile. Sharon Waxman wants to mace Michael Wolff's face.​In this week's Monday BlogBeat, Hollywood blogger Sharon Waxman goes to war with Vanity Fair columnist and Newser entrepreneur Michael Wolff over getting her content stolen; a disgraced New Yo ... More >>

Peter Kaplan Leaving the Observer

The Observer is a class act, made by smart people for smart people, so naturally in recent years it's had some problems. But editor Peter Kaplan, with the paper since 1994, has been a steady presence -- as the Huffington Post called him, a patriarch -- and a counterweight to the paper's younger, mo ... More >>

Sorting Through More of Harvey Weinstein's Garbage

Evil Dead

Hostel: Part II: Lame, tame, and not worth moralizing

Orgy of Sequels to Climax in 2007

Will the public get off, or just the studios?

Truth and Consequences

Reporter's Suit Against Murdoch Still Standing

'Post' Traumatic Stress Disorder

Is Murdoch's Business Section in Trouble?

Suing Mr. Murdoch

Writer Seeks to Put 'Post' on Trial

Cause Unknown

More Staff Exiting 'National Law Journal'

The Pusillanimous 'Post'

Reporter Sues News Corp. for $10 Million

Who's Afraid of Mickey Mouse?

When Disney Complains, Sack the Reporter