Nikki Finke

BlogDogger Barks at Nikki Finke's Sundance Coverage - Posted January 25, 2012
A few weeks ago, we picked up a report from Variety's in-house BlogDogger, which claimed that the time-stamp for a Deadline.com item about an Emma Stone movie project had been falsified to match the 3:00am PT January 5 mark of a similar report on Variety. On behalf of Dea... [GalleyCat]

BlogDogger Barks at Nikki Finke's Sundance Coverage* - Posted January 25, 2012
A few weeks ago, we picked up a report from Variety's in-house BlogDogger, which claimed that the time-stamp for a Deadline.com item about an Emma Stone movie project had been falsified to match the 3:00am PT January 5 mark of a similar report on Variety. On behalf of Dea... [FishbowlLA]

Journo Remembers the Night He Pissed Off Pierce Brosnan - Posted January 24, 2012
There is always, at Richard Rushfield's blog Rushfield Babylon, the guarantee that the author will tell it like it is, or was. Be the topic Nikki Finke, network TV singing competitions or, in this case, the Sundance Film Festival. ... [FishbowlLA]

Sundance Sets on Indiewire-Brian Brooks Relationship - Posted January 4, 2012
For whatever reason, Nikki Finke has recently been posting news of major Deadline.com hires on holidays. As ... [FishbowlLA]

OOPSIE! Nikki Finke Gets Obama Hosts Mixed Up - Posted October 25, 2011
It's very easy for bloggers working without a proofreader to occasionally blank on a person's name and either misspell a first-last or fudge the info completely, failing to catch the mistake(s) until after the item has published. FishbowlLA can personally attest to this hazard of the trade. In the case of Nikki... [FishbowlLA]

Backstage Magazine Hails a New Owner - Posted October 3, 2011
Updating her item from Sunday night, Nikki Finke reports th... [GalleyCat]

TVLine.com Parent Company Sues Hollywood Reporter for Copyright Infringement - Posted September 14, 2011
If you thought the gloves were off last Friday between Penske Media Corporation (PMC) and the Hollywood Reporter, you ain't read nothing yet. Today, ... [FishbowlLA]

This Year's Oscar Scoop Belongs to The Humor Mill Magazine - Posted September 6, 2011
Although Nikki Finke fanned the flames with a Saturday evening item on Deadline.co... [FishbowlLA]

Hollywood Reporter Promotes Erik Pedersen to Managing Editor - Posted July 29, 2011
On the Hollywood Reporter masthead, there is already a person listed as managing editor, daily--Michael Barnes. But since May, a second managing editor slot... [FishbowlLA]

Nikki Finke Partners with Paramount for Facebook Game - Posted July 19, 2011
Showbiz insiders have their own version of the "Deadline Hollywood Game." But in the case of the one to be launched shortly on Facebook by Nikki Finke's Deadline.com in partnership with Paramount Di... [FishbowlLA]

Hollywood Reporter Responds to Sharon Waxman Accusations - Posted June 20, 2011
Last Friday afternoon, Sharon Waxman made like Nikki Finke and accused a Hollywood trade rival of failing to properly credit her website's scoops. Except in this case, rather than it being a matter of De... [FishbowlLA]

Lynne Segall Heads Back to The Hollywood Reporter - Posted June 14, 2011
After a stint at the LA Times and a year trying to help monetize the efforts of Nikki Finke, Bonnie Fuller, ... [FishbowlLA]

Deadline.com's London Editor Steps Down (Updated) - Posted May 18, 2011
Tim Adler is retiring his post as editor of Deadline|London. Adler, an accomplished entertainment business journalist, took the helm of Deadline|London in January of 2010. FishbowlLA is hearing from multiple sources, all of whom wish to remain ano... [GalleyCat]

Nikki Finke to Patrick Goldstein: 'I'm Still Calling It As I See It' - Posted May 16, 2011
Since LA Times media columnist Patrick Goldstein began sharing his beat with colleague James Rainey, he d... [FishbowlLA]

Variety Publisher Ridicules Latest Takeover Rumor - Posted April 28, 2011
Today's gossip item by Richard Johnson at The Daily quotes only an unnamed "insider." And it does not specify what realm of the Hollywood media or business firmament that insider toils in. Stil... [FishbowlLA]

Mel Gibson Exclusive Impresses Anita Busch, Revolts David Poland - Posted April 22, 2011
The two most intriguing media reactions to last night's big exclusive interview with Mel Gibson posted on Deadline.com come from ... [FishbowlLA]

Deadline.com Adds New York Based Executive Editor - Posted March 28, 2011
After nearly two decades chronicling the digital media revolution for USA Today, David Lieberman has decided to jump to one of its newest purveyors. Beginning A... [FishbowlLA]

Nikki Finke Points Accusing Finger at The Hollywood Reporter* - Posted March 17, 2011
Reader comments have started to fly in response to a Nikki Finke item in ... [GalleyCat]

Nikki Finke Points Accusing Finger at The Hollywood Reporter* - Posted March 17, 2011
Reader comments have started to fly in response to a Nikki Finke item in ... [FishbowlLA]

Nikki Finke Has a New Managing Editor - Posted March 13, 2011
Even though Patrick Hipes is still listed as assistant managing editor of the Hollywood Reporter on the publication's latest, ... [GalleyCat]

Nikki Finke Leaks Oscar Script - Posted February 25, 2011
Yes, blogger Greg Mitchell has already dubbed it Nikkileaks. Nikki Finke has got her hands on the play by play of the Academy Awards this Sunday. She writes: I've obtained the annotated schedule for Sunday night's 83rd Academy Awards sh... [GalleyCat]

Nikki Finke Parent Co. Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter to TheWrap - Posted February 23, 2011
It may well be time for a new Deadline.com term - "SCOLDJA!" That's because the gloves have come off this week between Nikki Finke's Deadline.com and ... [GalleyCat]

'The Daily' Takes Ratings Dip, Says It Might Have Finke Pic - Posted February 10, 2011
There was a lot of hoopla surrounding the launch of The Daily, and it appeared that the publication was well-received by iPad readers. However, it looks like issues with loading images are pushing down user ratings. ... [PRNewser]

Jerry Bruckheimer Ruminates About the Red Carpet - Posted February 8, 2011
In case you hadn't noticed, Jerry Bruckheimer is the latest Hollywood titan to take to Twitter like there's no #tomorrow. Which is a good thing, because this guy has a hand in more aspects of Hollywood entertainment than Tom (Cruise), Dick (Wolf) and Harry (Potter). On the heels of a whole bunch... [FishbowlLA]

Sharon Waxman Tones Down HFPA Suicide Headline - Posted January 21, 2011
Late yesterday afternoon, the following e-mail news bulletin was fired off from the TheWrap: "EXCLUSIVE: New HFPA Bombshell - Longtime Member Commits Suicide" Immediately, readers started piling on in the comments section, disgusted at how article author ... [FishbowlLA]

Powerhouse Lawyer Engineers Hot Coffee Rematch - Posted January 6, 2011
By all rights, a seven-year-old legal complaint involving a too-hot cup of Starbucks brand coffee, a Malibu mom, a Barnes & Noble in Calabasas and a scalded toddler should have run its course when dismissed in... [GalleyCat]

LAPD May Know Who Ordered the Hit on Ronni Chasen - Posted December 3, 2010
Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen may have been murdered due to a business deal gone bad, ... [PRNewser]

Nikki Finke Sues Deadline Hollyweird - Posted December 2, 2010
To be honest, we had never visited the knockoff website DeadlineHollyweird.com until we came across ... [FishbowlLA]

Daily Variety Dumps Editor - Posted November 2, 2010
Leo Wolinsky has been let go as editor of the Daily Variety after only 10 months on the job. Before coming to Variety, he worked at the LA Times for over three decades. The hiring of Wolinsky by the struggling Hollywood trade ... [FishbowlLA]

Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women List Loaded With Media Figures - Posted October 7, 2010
Last evening, Forbes released their annual ranking of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women on their official website, Forbes.com. The list included 18 media and publishing personalities and made it clear that the women controlling the industr... [FishbowlNY]

The Filing Room at TheWrap's TheGrill - Posted September 21, 2010
Yes, "the wrap" and "the grill" makes us hungry and lunch is late due to an early morning accident on the 10 Freeway. TheGrill is the one day pow wow of movers and shakers in the media and tech industry. "The leaders, the deciders, the disrupters." Pictured above TheWrap's Managing Editor Lew... [FishbowlLA]

LAT Loses Awards Columnist A Week Before Awards Season - Posted September 3, 2010
Two things: Great for Deadline to snatch up Pete Hammond. Nice guy. He'll go far. And the Arts and Entertainment section of the LA Times loses another journalist?! R... [FishbowlLA]

Finke Based Tilda in Finke-Free Turmoil - Posted August 24, 2010
Yes, the pilot shoot of Tilda was nasty according to EW and no it had nothing to do with Nikki Finke. Yes, you could say we give Finke too much credit - but even a little is more than the producers of Tilda gave her. Ahem. Michael Ausiello and ... [FishbowlLA]

Waxman Needs Attention, Invites Finke to Speak - Posted August 20, 2010
Call us cynical but the Sharon Waxman and Nikki Finke feud benefits them both. Possibly one more than the other. If they're lucky a ... [FishbowlLA]

Waxman and Finke are Flaming Each Other Again - Posted April 23, 2010
We've said it once and we'll say it again - the problem with entertainment writers is they write for people who don't read so they have to resort to theatrics in order to get attention. We honestly had to wonder if this is even news. This has become the "dog bites man"... [FishbowlLA]

'Casino Jack' Finds Distributor - Posted March 29, 2010
We're hearing that "Casino Jack", the film starring Kevin Spacy as convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, has found a distributor in Metropolitan, Inc. The news is being reported by the Web site Deadline Hollywood run by Hollywood blogger ... [FishbowlDC]

Variety to PR: Give Us Your Scoops, Or Else! - Posted March 26, 2010
Entertainment PR pros: you've been warned. If you give scoops to other online publications, Variety won't run your story in print. Via the LA Times' ... [PRNewser]

CEO of THR Denies Offering Finke Editor Gig, Finke Doubles Down with Deets - Posted March 26, 2010
Nikki Finke announced last week that in January the new owners of THR offered her a "very lucrative" offer to fill the position of Editor-in-Chief. Then The Hollywood ... [FishbowlLA]

Matt Labov Leaves Hollywod PR Firm B|W|R - Posted February 24, 2010
"What's bizarre is that this follows B|W|R last month promoting [him] to co-president with Leslie Sloane Zelnik," writes DeadlineHollywood.com's Nikki Finke. Labov handles J... [PRNewser]

Deadline Hollywood's Traffic Spikes - Posted February 24, 2010
Nikki Finke is many things - a journalist, a showman, an entertainer, but her math skills seem to be...well not on par with her other legendary abilities. Nikki sent us this post: Last month, I told you that Deadline|Hollywood, after just four years in existence, has a larger readership than Variety and The... [FishbowlLA]

Hey, Nikki Finke, What's Up With That 'Premium' Button? - Posted February 10, 2010
Someone asked us today if Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood is going behind a paywall. Apparently there is a button suspiciously labeled premium. Roll over it says "Coming soon." So? Subsc... [FishbowlLA]

Late-Night Lineup Debacle Could Get Expensive - Posted January 14, 2010
This Jeff Zucker created snafu is going to cost NBC a lot of money according to Bloomberg.com: Fixing NBC's prime-time schedule will cost at least $200 million, David Bank, an analys... [FishbowlLA]

Nikki Finke Hires Variety Vet To Helm Deadline New York - Posted January 11, 2010
Ever since Nikki Finke sold her blog Deadline Hollywood Daily to Mail.com Media Corp. i... [FishbowlNY]

Hey Huffpo LA, Finke Telling Waxman to F-Off Isn't News, It's Friday - Posted January 8, 2010
Huffington Post's LA edition (which we feel is redundant) hasn't quite found its niche or voice or something. Now it's all best food posts with something about a celebrity. For LA news. It's like hosing down a drowning victim. Anyway, Nikki Finke... [FishbowlLA]

Dealing With Layoffs|MPA Lays Off 5|Examiner.com Gets New CEO|Colbert Covers Raise Newsstand Sales|Deadline Hollywood - Posted December 17, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c... [FishbowlNY]

Time Person of the Year Announcement Next Week|Online Pub Buys Print Mag|Time.com's New Look|NBCU's Zalaznick May Move To MTV - Posted December 11, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c... [FishbowlNY]

"Twitter Guys" Take Top Media Person(s) Of 2009 Prize - Posted December 7, 2009
We called it. Last week, when faced with two "Person of the Year" polls, we predicted that the "Twitter Guys," Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and ... [FishbowlNY]

Could Oprah Be Leaving Broadcast TV? - Posted November 6, 2009
Is Oprah Winfrey ready to ditch her syndication deal and take her talk show to her new cable network OWN? Yes, according to Nikki Finke, ... [FishbowlNY]

Interview: Hollywood Publicist Liza Anderson, Founder, Anderson Group Public Relations - Posted November 2, 2009
Liza Anderson knows it's not easy to grow your agency in the midst of a recession. Her tricks: Hard work, hiring lots of great people, and "constant hustling." Anderson founded Anderson Group Public Relations, and has since taken on a numb... [PRNewser]

Brauchli Discusses Salon Flap|Shepard Fairey|Self Layoffs|Hearst Tells Amazon It Will Work To Shorten Delivery Times|Nikki Finke's Powerful Women List - Posted October 19, 2009
FishbowlDC: The Washington Post's ... [FishbowlNY]

Nikki Finke Blasts New Yorker Profile - Posted October 5, 2009
Yesterday, The New Yorker published a lengthy profile of Deadline Hollywood Daily blogger ... [FishbowlNY]

Nikke Finke on New Yorker Profile: Story "Manipulated By Hollywood" - Posted October 5, 2009
Is Nikke Finke Hollywood's most powerful scribe? Certainly many in the industry seem to think so, and she has been the center of feature stories in both ... [PRNewser]

Nikki Finke is in The New Yorker - Posted October 5, 2009
Wowie, Nikki Finke is now in The New Yorker? First the front page of the New York Times and now a Tad Frie... [FishbowlLA]

HuffPost Reveals First "Game Changers" - Posted October 1, 2009
The Huffington Post is on a quest to find its game changers -- "100 people who are using new media to reshape their fields and change the world." Today, the online pub announced ... [FishbowlNY]

Will Comcast Buy NBC Universal From GE? - Posted October 1, 2009
Rumors, theories and conjectures have been swirling since The Wrap reported yesterday that a deal between cable provider ... [FishbowlNY]

Huffpo Takes on Sharon Waxman - Posted October 1, 2009
Sharon Waxman reported Comcast had struck a deal to buy NBC Universal. This "exclusive" made everyone freak out and then ... [FishbowlLA]

Christiane Amanpour|THR, Variety Plan Changes|GalleyCat Correctly Predicts Oprah's Book Club Selection|WSJ Reveals Pricey Mobile App Pay Structure|Diller Will Use Cash To Reinvest - Posted September 17, 2009
... [FishbowlNY]

Hollywood Trade Papers Change and Charge - Posted September 17, 2009
According to Nikki Finke, The Hollywood Reporter ... [FishbowlLA]

Columnist Archerd Dies|CBS Tries Bribing Blogger With $20 Gift Card|What Do New Yorkers Say They Like To Read On The Subway?|Daily Beast Hires 24-Year-Old Editor|Fallon Ends Olbermann-Beck Beef - Posted September 9, 2009
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Finke's New Site Awaits New York Writer - Posted September 4, 2009
Earlier this summer we advised you to get your resumes ready because after selling her breaking news Web site DeadlineHollywood... [FishbowlNY]

Bonnie Fuller Returns To Editor-In-Chief Spot at Celeb Web Site - Posted July 17, 2009
She once helped celebrity magazine Us Weekly become a must-read and guided American Media, which publishes Star... [FishbowlNY]

Breaking: Nikki Finke Story Maybe On Page One of NYT - Posted July 16, 2009
We just got word that a David Carr column about Nikki Finke "got offered" to run on page one of the New York Times tomorrow. Ooh big time. UPDATE: We got a confirmation that the story will be on page one tom... [FishbowlLA]

LAT Profiles Nikki Finke|New York Profile Subject Dash Snow Dies|Thomson Reuters Looks To Buy Breakingviews.com|Next New Networks Trims Staff|Shirky Talks Jounalism Subsidies - Posted July 15, 2009
Embedded video from CNN Video FishbowlLA: The Los Angeles Times' James Rainey ... [FishbowlNY]

James Rainey is Terrified of Nikki Finke - Posted July 15, 2009
LAT's James Rainey who's been penning media hit pieces sans actually interviewing the subjects (see Jill Stewart and ... [FishbowlLA]

CyberFrequencies Interview With Nikki Finke - Posted June 30, 2009
Queena Kim and Tanya Jo Miller interview Nikki Finke. They mention ... [FishbowlLA]

Talking Erotica On The Menu: Author Rachel Kramer Bussel Visits To Discuss The Industry, Book Trailers And Ippy Awards - Posted June 24, 2009
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Get Your Resumes Ready, Nikki Finke's Looking To Hire NY-Based Reporter - Posted June 23, 2009
Our sister blog FishbowlLA has news that "infotainment" columnist Nikki Finke has sold her breaking news Web site DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com... [FishbowlNY]

Deadline Hollywood Daily Acquired by MMC - Posted June 23, 2009
Nikki Finke's infamous take-no-prisoners entertainment business blog has been acquire by MMC. From DHD: Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), the digital media company that owns and operates the Mail.com portal and email service as well as a growing portfolio of lifestyle brands, including HollywoodLife.com, MovieLine.com and OnCars.com, announced today its acquisition of the Internet's... [FishbowlLA]

Roger Friedman To File Wrongful Termination Suit Against News Corp. - Posted June 14, 2009
Fired FoxNews.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman says it wasn't watching a pirated copy of the 20th Century Fox film "Wolverine" - and then writing about it - that got him fired, it was actress Kelly Preston... [TVNewser]

Did NBCU Freeze Out Nielsen Business Media After Unfavorable Report? - Posted June 8, 2009
DeadlineHollywoodDaily's Nikki Finke writes ... [TVNewser]

New Twilight Trailer Gets 5.3 million Online Views In First 24 Hours - Posted June 2, 2009
Nikki Finke calls it pent-up demand, and adds us the eyeballs: "Summit Entertainment has a count of 4.2 million views for the New Moon trailer from MySpace, and another 1.1 million from MTV.com, so that's 5.3 million combined views in the first 24 hours from its two domestic onl... [FishbowlLA]

Village Voice Media Reports Their Blogs Get 40 Percent of All Pageviews - Posted May 21, 2009
Almost half of all pageviews for Village Voice Media papers (which include the LA Weekly) are from blogs. That's a big reveal on the future of the alt weeklies. From Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch: ... [FishbowlLA]

PR Legend Lee Solters Dead at 90 - Posted May 18, 2009
Nikki Finke reports and we confirmed that Lee Solters passed away early this morning at the age of 90. Solters was the pub for people su... [FishbowlLA]

LAT FOB: Media: Where Do We Go From Here? Panel - Posted April 27, 2009
The "Media: Where Do We Go From Here?" panel was moderated by LAT media scribe James Rainey. The panelists were Voice of San Diego's Andrew Donohue, Marc C... [FishbowlLA]

Kevin Spacey, Method Actor is Studying Abramoff Behind Bars - Posted April 24, 2009
This is a really fun bit from Nikki Finke. Awesome: EXCLUSIVE: My sources tell me that 2-time Academy Award winner ... [FishbowlLA]

Show Biz Reporters Exchange Barbs in NY Observer Piece - Posted April 23, 2009
You can read the whole story for yourself - but we'll sum it up: Sharon Waxman, Nikki Finke... [FishbowlLA]

Tentative Deal Between SAG And AMPTP - Posted April 17, 2009
Nikki Finke on Deadline Hollywood Daily has the statement from the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers: LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2008) - The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and Screen Actors Guild today announced that the parties have reached tentative agree... [FishbowlLA]

New Editor In Chief At Variety - Posted April 6, 2009
Peter Bart, Variety's editor in chief of 20 years, has been replaced by deputy editor Tim Gray. The article on the Variety website says B... [FishbowlLA]

FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman Fired For "Promoting" Piracy - Posted April 5, 2009
DeadlineHollywoodDaily's Nikki Finke reports FOX has fired FoxNews.com entertainment writer, ... [TVNewser]

National Entertainment Journalism Award Winners Announced - Posted March 30, 2009
The winners of the LA Press club's 2nd annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards were announced at a reception Thursday night. A number of local journalists took home awards, including Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times for Best Feature in the online category, and George Pennacchio of KABC-TV for Best News Story... [FishbowlLA]

Will William Morris and Endeavor Merge? - Posted March 25, 2009
Will giants William Morris and Endeavor become one super agency? The answer is that it's complicated. And by 'complicated' we mean packed full of super rich successful people with super rich successful egos. Entertainment writers love this type of script. It's a dramity. Nikki Finke's sour... [FishbowlLA]

Chernin, Murdoch, and News Corp.: The Son Also Rises? - Posted March 5, 2009
Scoopmeister Nikki Finke is opining on the upcoming departure of Peter Chernin, ... [FishbowlNY]

Peter Chernin is Out at Murdoch's News Corp. - Posted February 23, 2009
After 12 years on the job as an 'ambassador' to Wall Street and in Hollywood for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, Peter Chernin is leaving the company. From ... [FishbowlLA]

What's Going On With Watchmen? - Posted January 9, 2009
This is the Japanese trailer with new footage! Stuff we've haven't ... [FishbowlLA]

Is Nikki Finke Recession Proof? - Posted December 29, 2008
In our coverage of the very quick melt down of media as we know it - we did a couple of posts about Christmas Eve layoffs at LA Weekly. One anonymous tipster aske... [FishbowlLA]

Finke And Her Scurrilous Rumors Are Denied - Posted December 19, 2008
Nikki Finke, blogging on Deadlinehollywooddaily.com, has gotten it wrong again. She proclaimed like a wild banshee that Hollywood Reporter publisher ... [FishbowlLA]

Could SAG Be Being Dumped by TV? - Posted December 17, 2008
Nikki Finke posted the statement from Twentieth Century Television: With all the uncertainty surrounding the stalled negotiations with S... [FishbowlLA]

Actors Petition SAG to Not Make Them Look Like Greedy Dirt Bags - Posted December 16, 2008
Some top actors are pleading with the Screen Actors Guild to not call for a vote on a strike next month. From NYT: In a petition, more than 130 well-known actors - including George Clooney, ... [FishbowlLA]

Oscars Look To Who For Host? Hugh Jackman? Put Another Shrimp On The Barbie... - Posted December 12, 2008
The Oscars have been agonizing over a new host. Jon Stewart didn't work out. Whoopi Goldberg was too ethnic. And Billy Cry... [FishbowlLA]

Variety Weekly Will Remain As Much -- Still Weekly - Posted December 6, 2008
Contrary to Nikki Finke's shrill bloggeristic rant that Variety would fold its weekly ma... [FishbowlLA]

Viacom to Slash 850 Jobs - Posted December 4, 2008
Rumors about this have been floating around for a while now and looks like they are coming to pass. The AP is reporting that Viacom, owner of MTV Networks, BET Networks and Paramount Pictures, has announced it will slash 850 jobs or 7% of its workforce. In addition to... [FishbowlNY]

All-Out Blogger Warfare In Hollywood - Posted November 26, 2008
Nikki Finke and Sharon Waxman establish their blogging rights in Hollywo... [FishbowlLA]

Schwarzenegger Wants To 'Stop The Bleeding' - Posted November 7, 2008
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and resident Terminator, in between sobbing over pal John McCain's resounding defeat to President-elect... [FishbowlLA]

Solved! The Case of the Disappearing SNL Video - Posted October 8, 2008
Earlier this week we e... [FishbowlNY]

Finke Inserts Herself Into Weinstein/Rudin Scrap - Posted September 30, 2008
Blogger Nikki Finke, as is her wont, has placed herself smack in the middle of this true Hollywood showdown between producers ... [FishbowlLA]

Harvey Weinstein Owes Nikki Finke $1 Million - Posted September 30, 2008
Rupert Murdoch may be losing a millions dollars a day this year, but he's not alone! ... [FishbowlNY]

Village Voice Media Launches Four New Blogs - Posted August 6, 2008
Via our sister blog FishbowlLA comes word that Village Voice Media i... [FishbowlNY]

FBLA Exclusive: Village Voice Media Launching National Blogs - Posted August 6, 2008
We got a tip that Village Voice Media is going to launch four national blogs. Bill Jensen, described as 'the internet top guy' at VVM confirmed the tip. "They won't be under the Village Voice URL." Jensen explained. There has already been a soft launch for two of these sites, ... [FishbowlLA]

Ina Treciokas Starts Her Own PR Firm - Posted August 3, 2008
FBLA has learned that Ina Treciokas, one of the top PR women in New York or L.A., has divorced herself from Kelly Bush's firm (another top PR femme) and started her own independent company. Details were available on Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywoo... [FishbowlLA]

Vote for Time's Most Influential, and Please Let Nikki Finke Beat Perez Hilton - Posted April 4, 2008
Time has a poll--the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Go on, vote for Nikki Finke. We did. She's ahead of John McCain, Nicholas Sarkozy, and Vladimir Putin. Perez Hilton is at # 5, which is a sign of the end times. On the bright side, Nick Denton, at #204, beats Eliot Spitze... [FishbowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 03.28.08 - Posted March 28, 2008
Good morning Washington. Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: REVOLVING DOOR | NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | MAGAZINES | RADIO | JOBS You ... [FishbowlDC]

Oscar Hind-Sight is 20/20 - Posted February 25, 2008
The Academy Awards from the rear-view mirror: The Fug Girls should replace Kimora. Alessandra Stanley just about ... [FishbowlLA]

Fired LAT Editor John Montorio: "It Was My Destiny" - Posted February 19, 2008
Ad Age reports that the American media work force is at a 15 year low--only 886,900 employed, thanks to the slumping newspaper industry. And speaking of slumping--whole lot of changes at the LA Times. The LAT, with paid circulation less than that number above, is now... [FishbowlLA]

WGA 08 Strike: Reax to the DGA Deal-a-rama - Posted January 21, 2008
Nikki Finke is back, and her commenters are happy. She leads off with the provocative headline: That Shitty DGA Deal is at Least a Start which will be great to remember if the WGA signs on for that same... [FishbowlLA]

What Did Leno Know and When Did He Know It? - Posted January 4, 2008
Jay Leno's late night triumph seems to hinge on his misunderstanding of the Guild rules, wilful or not. NBC says he got permission from Patric Verrone, which is backed up in the NY Times by that scourge of journalists--the u... [FishbowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 01.03.08 - Posted January 3, 2008
Good morning Washington. It's Caucus Day! Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: REVOLVING DOOR | NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | MAGAZINES | ... [FishbowlDC]

WGA 07 Strike : What Happens Next? - Posted December 28, 2007
The readers of Nikki Finke (i.e., everyone who's still interested in the outcome of the WGA strike) respond to her question: What Should Happen Next? with varying degrees of naivete (get the general public involved!),... [FishbowlLA]

WGA 07 Strike: Last Week of 2007 - Posted December 27, 2007
Nikki Finke ran an open letter to AMPTP from writers who've got pilot deals. The tone was a tich whiny, as her commenters pointed out, proving that her blog is read by the real Hollywood crowd, as opposed to the sweet, if clueless, fans... [FishbowlLA]

Media Mavericks and Moguls: Ross Johnson - Posted December 7, 2007
Friday lunch at Orso was surprisingly fruitful, big name-wise, with Mel Brooks holding court at a table full of cronies, Larry David in a black velor tracksuit, and tall, blond and Brit Bill Nighy looking dreamy. Perfect for FBLA's new weekly feature, Lunch with Media Moguls and Mavericks. Ross Johnson surprised a... [FishbowlLA]

Sundown on Sunset - Posted November 30, 2007
Evel Knievel dies at age 69. Martin Scorsese's newest film: La Clave Reserva Just in time for the holidays! KOST fires Kim ... [FishbowlLA]

LA Press Club: National Journalism Awards - Posted November 28, 2007
The LA Press Club announces the National Entertainment Journalism Awards: Entertainment reporters, editors and critics across the country are invited to enter a new journalism contest that honors those who write, speak or blog about one of the nation's most important industries.... Thr... [FishbowlLA]

WGA 07 Strike Week 4: Talk Amongst Yourselves - Posted November 26, 2007
Call United Hollywood Live at 12-1:30 p.m. Pacific (3-4:30 p.m. Eastern) Vote for the Striking Writers as I Want Media's media personality of 2007. (Perez Hilton? Are... [FishbowlLA]

WGA 07 Strike Week 2: Represent! - Posted November 13, 2007
Nina Bargiel has been mistaken... [FishbowlLA]

Producers Guild: Include Us Out of AMPTP - Posted November 12, 2007
FBLA has been waiting for this. The Producers Guild of America, which isn't a guild like the others, but more of a trade association, or even a club, wants to make sure that they're not confused with the Alliance Of Motion Picture & Television Produce... [FishbowlLA]

WGA Strike News Updates - Posted November 1, 2007
Nikki Finke has opened her column up to reader comments about the WGA strike. Who knew she was so popular in Argentina? Finke's coverage is far and away ... [FishbowlLA]

Jeff Robinov Retrospective - Posted October 11, 2007
Seen above, in happier times, Warner's Alan Horn, producer Joel Silver, and in the role of Baby Bear, Jeff Robinov, president of production. Robinov, you may recall, was quoted by Nikki Finke as saying that Warner's was "longer doing movies with women in the lead". ... [FishbowlLA]

Elle's Women in Hollywood Roundtable - Posted October 11, 2007
Salon's Rebecca Traister sits in on Elle's Women in Hollywood round table discussion on the state of show biz, why there aren't more women directors, and so on. The group wonders why women don't go to opening weekends, forgetting that people watch mo... [FishbowlLA]

Nikki Finke Talks the Talk In ELLE - Posted October 10, 2007
Nikki Finke tells Lisa Chase--well, if not everything, a whole lot in ELLE. Great Line 1 Believe me, there's nothing worse in Hollywood than being called a putz and having all your pals read it. ... [FishbowlLA]

Kid Nation: The Ugliness Continues - Posted September 18, 2007
Nikki Finke says TV critics weren't the only ones who didn't receive screeners of the controversial Kid Nation reality/kidsploitation show. The CBS board of directors hasn't had the opportunity to see the show in advance, either. Nikki ... [FishbowlLA]

Goddamn Stars Get The Shit Bleeped Out of Them--No Screwing Around on the Emmys - Posted September 17, 2007
Nikki Finke suggests everyone take off their t... [FishbowlLA]

BREAKING: John Connolly---No Phone Records for Pellicano's Lawyers - Posted August 27, 2007
A win for journalists--a federal judge just granted Vanity Fair writer John Connolly's motion to quash the subpoena for his telephone records for the Anthony Pellicano case. Steven Gruel, Pellicano's lawyer had been lusting for Connolly's Verizon records. Nikki Finke has all ... [FishbowlLA]

LA Observed Runs Patrick Goldstein's Killed Column - Posted July 24, 2007
Patrick Goldstein's Big Picture column for today was killed after he suggested the LAT make a pact with recording artists to give away scads of free CDs (a la Britain's Mail on Sunday). Newspapers, as you may have heard, are i... [FishbowlLA]

WWD Editor's Note on Nikki Finke Piece - Posted July 18, 2007
Jacob Bernstein's editors released a semi-retraction in today's print edition of Women's Wear Daily: EDITOR'S NOTE: A WWD article on Hollywood writer Nikki Finke, published on July 6, page 16, was pulled last week from the paper's Web site, wwd.com. The article, by WWD features writer Jacob Bernstein, depicted Finke as a... [FishbowlLA]

WWD Not Talking About Jacob Bernstein, Nikki Finke - Posted July 16, 2007
WWD isn't talking about Jacob Bernstein's profile of Nikki Finke that disappeared from the online archives, despite being published over the July 4th weekend. Andrea Kaplan told FBLA "we have no comment". We asked Luke Ford if WWD was making him take down his post quoting fr... [FishbowlLA]

Jacob Bernstein's Nikki Finke Profile in WWD: MIA? - Posted July 15, 2007
Surely, it can't be a coincidence that the same weekend that FBLA gets an email from a high-powered PR type alerting us to the Jacob Bernstein profile of Nikki Finke in WWD, that Luke Ford and ... [FishbowlLA]

Jeff Wells To David Poland: Play Nice - Posted June 22, 2007
We somehow have been cc'd into an ugly chain of e-mailed invectives between Nikki Finke, David Poland, Jeff Wells and the organizers of the ... [FishbowlLA]

LA Press Club: Does Something Stink? No, Says Finke - Posted June 17, 2007
Jeffery Wells, of Hollywood Elsewhere, sent Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke a (kinda) congratulatory e-mail that asks whether L.A. Press Club Award winners are chosen based on how many be... [FishbowlLA]

Why We (Heart) Nikki Finke - Posted June 12, 2007
We've officially arrived. It took nearly a year, but FBLA has finally registered on the radar of the venerable, incomparable, indispensable Nikki Finke. Well, actually, that statement was yet another example of the "inaccuracies," Nikki alludes to in her ... [FishbowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 06.08.07 - Posted June 8, 2007
Good morning Washington. An NBC release announced that "According to Nielsen Media Research data, 'Meet the Press with Tim Russert' topped the Sunday morning public affairs competition, winning the week ending Sunday, June 3, 2007 in total viewers, homes and in the key demographic adults 25-54." On Sunday, "Meet the Press"... [FishbowlDC]

Nikki Finke Rankles Ben Silverman - Posted June 4, 2007
James Hibbard, at TV Week.com, reports that Nikki Finke got under the skin of NBC's newly anointed Ben Silverman with all that ... [FishbowlLA]

It's Official: There Will Be a Harry Potter Theme Park - Posted May 31, 2007
As first confirmed last month by Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke (who today offers a slew of first-look pictures) Warner Bros. and Universal Studios ... [GalleyCat]

Nikki Finke on Ben Silverman's Sweet Deal with NBC and All That Have Gone Before - Posted May 30, 2007
While we've not always agreed with Nikki Finke, her latest post is a work of genius, if only for her skill with Google Images. Never have so many people looked so dreadful--and with good reason. Writing about NBC's cozy deal with Ben Silverman, Fi... [FishbowlLA]

NBC Snags Reveille's Silverman, Blows Taps for Reilly - Posted May 29, 2007
FBLA's anonymous tip turned out to be true: NBC is trying to ditch Kevin Reilly, and right before prom, too. News of Reilly... [FishbowlLA]

Changes At WSJ, NBC - Posted May 28, 2007
Some Memorial Day weekend job shuffling of note. First, from our own Revolving Door: Brian Steinberg, Wall Street Journal ad columnist, is headed to AdAge where he'll be the TV editor. And some big holiday weekend hustling at NBC, where Jeff Zucker has tapped reality mogul ... [FishbowlNY]

HBO's Chief Gets Whacked - Posted May 9, 2007
That didn't take long. A day after Chris Albrecht took a leave of absence from his post following a weekend in which he was arrested for allegedly beating his girlfriend, Time Warner has whacked the HBO chief executive. Nikki Finke ... [FishbowlNY]

Books into Theme Parks - Posted April 16, 2007
If there's a third one out there, then I can safely call the transformation of books into theme parks a bona fide trend. But for now, let's gawp at the latest news on this front: First is the announcement that Dickens World, a theme park devoted to - you guessed it -... [GalleyCat]

Portfolio: 'CEO Porn To Masturbate' To? - Posted April 16, 2007
What the usual suspects — and others — are saying about Portfolio's launch: NYT: "Business is about power," Conde Nast Portfolio's editor Joanne Lipman writes in her first editor's lette... [FishbowlNY]

'Unprofessional': Ex-Timesman Bernie Weinraub Fires Back At Times After Scathing Review - Posted April 11, 2007
Former New York Times Hollywood reporter Bernie Weinraub is furious over a scathing review of his new Off-Broadway pl... [FishbowlNY]

Sundown on Sunset - Posted April 6, 2007
What an insanely hectic week. Here's a look back at our favorite media stories: Sam Zell Buys Tribune: All hell breaks loose in the react and next... [FishbowlLA]

Will the LA Times Pulp the Grazer Guest Edit Section? - Posted March 22, 2007
Andres Martinez covers his butt in a blog post at the LA Times. He's quick to point out that he wasn't alone, no siree, in deciding that ... [FishbowlLA]

Andres Martinez, Kelly Mullens, Brian Grazer: Three's Company - Posted March 21, 2007
FBLA thinks this is almost too good to be true: Andres Martinez, the Op-Ed Editor at the LA Times has been dating Kelly Mullens, who was an executive with Sitrick and Company. One of that firm's clients is Brian Grazer, the guest editor of this weekend's Current section. Former Sitri... [FishbowlLA]

Nikki Finke Explains What's Wrong With Across the Universe - Posted March 21, 2007
Just the other day, David Carr in the NY Times admitted what we already knew: New Yorkers don't understand show biz all that m... [FishbowlLA]

Is Hollywood Buying Nick Kristof's Story? - Posted March 16, 2007
It should. That's what Nikki Finke thinks about the Timesman's second annual "Win A Trip With Nick" contest, and seems to be, oddly, almost lobbying for: When Hollywood options this (and you will), remember you hea... [FishbowlNY]

Brian Grazer: Editor for a Day at LA Times - Posted March 15, 2007
The LA Times is going for a guest editor for the Sunday Op-ed section, Current, and so picked the obvious candidate, Brian Grazer for the March 25th issue. From the press release: ... [FishbowlLA]

Monday Morning Meta Media Mashup - Posted February 26, 2007
A weekly meta-roundup of our favorite (mostly) New York media pundits, what they're saying, why they're saying it, and an all-important grade, subjective and arbitrary — just like their columns! "... [FishbowlNY]

Nikki Finke to Return to the LAT? No, But LA Mag Thinks She Should - Posted February 22, 2007
Los Angeles Magazine has a few suggestions for "fixing" the LAT -- one of them being that the paper of record lure Nikki Finke away from her post at LA Weekly. A excerpt per Hollywood Wiretap: She isn't always accurate (but)...she is almost alone in conveying a palpable excitement about what the... [FishbowlLA]

Taking Out The Trash, 02.22.07 - Posted February 22, 2007
This is a close one. Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks are in a tight race. Starbucks has the lead so far. An NBC release announced that "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" "was back on top as the most-watched network evening newscast during the week of February 12-16, 2007, attracting 10.168 million total viewers,"... [FishbowlDC]

Beyonce Knocks 'Real' Swimsuit Models Off SI Cover - Posted February 15, 2007
Sports journalist and ex-Sports Illustrated editor Roy Johnson had the rumor scoop, and now we see he was right: Beyonce is the 2007 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model. The "model" part is t... [FishbowlNY]

Slamdance, Sundance, Squaredance: The Buzz - Posted January 24, 2007
Slamdance Religous sex cultists from the Children of God broke up a screening of Noah Thompson's film about growing up in the cult. From the ... [FishbowlLA]

Times Shakes Up Its Hollywood Coverage - Posted January 23, 2007
Interesting insidery news from Nikki Finke, who has good grist on some Hollywood coverage changes at the New York Times. First, the Times is dropping L.A.-based movie editor Michael Cieply, adding him to its stable of Ho... [FishbowlNY]

Golden Globe Gossip Round-up - Posted January 16, 2007
FBLA finds all the remarks worth repeating about the Golden Globes. WoW Report Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey started out strong, but lost focus. Best exchange: F: At least Annette Bening doesn't mind being on camera actually drinking. R: Drinking, with bad ... [FishbowlLA]