Email Author Nikki Finke

Awards

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 14, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: I Know What You Did Last Summer"

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published June 15, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: Fade to Black"

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published January 26, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: The Scars of Oscar"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 6, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 30, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: Dangerous Liaisons"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 2, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: Goodbye Baquet, Hello O'Shea"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Deadline Hollywood Daily: Worst Talent Deal Ever?"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Deadline Hollywood Daily: WGA Talks Collapse: East Strike On!"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Deadline Hollywood Daily: NBC Shake-up: My Final Wrap & Analysis"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Deadline Hollywood"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published November 9, 2007

  "Deals, Lies and Back Channels"

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 21, 2006

  "Cash and Carrey"

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published November 2, 2006

  "Blood From Stones"

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published August 24, 2006

  "War of the Words"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 24, 2006

  "Blood Diamond Director Blasts Gossip as Appalling..."

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 20, 2006

  "Why Hollywood Gets No Work Done"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 21, 2006

  "Hollywood Minorities Complain to Me"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2005

  Deadline Hollywood:1

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 15, 2005

  Deadline Hollywood:2

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 28, 2005

  Deadline Hollywood:3

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2002 Stories by Nikki Finke

• The Bully Pulpit

  published December 19, 2002

  A few weeks before the midterm elections, South Carolina‘s Democratic senatorial candidate Alex Sanders crowed, ”The Sundance... More >>

• The Punch Line, Please

  published December 12, 2002

  A FEW YEARS AGO, A FAMOUS SCREENWRITER sat in a newly minted studio mogul's office and pitched a script. It was about the comedic mishaps of... More >>

• Back to the Future

  published December 5, 2002

  National Lampoon is secretly readying a parody issue of The Hollywood Reporter for release any day. But how will we know the difference?... More >>

• The Untold Story

  published November 21, 2002

  THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION CARDS FALLING OUT OF Mother Jones magazine ask readers to check one of two boxes: "Yes (I'll gladly subscribe to... More >>

• The Price of Freedom

  published October 31, 2002

  First, Los Angeles Times’ Calendar writer Anita Busch was nearly sleeping with the fishes. Now, the veteran reporter -- best known for... More >>

• And Stay Out

  published October 24, 2002

  Even by Hollywood standards, it was horrific treatment. At 2:30 p.m. last Tuesday, longtime Miramax president Mark Gill called his... More >>

• A Hit for Ovitz

  published October 17, 2002

  Packages wrapped in fuchsia tulle (”because pink was way too obvious“) began arriving around Hollywood by messenger. Inside was a... More >>

• The Nature of Fall TV

  published September 12, 2002

  WHAT NO ONE'S BOTHERING TO ASK, AS TV writers begin their annual rite of bashing the new fall schedule, is whether pay cable's original... More >>

• Throw the Bums Out

  published August 29, 2002

  NOT LONG AGO, JIM CARREY WISECRACKED THAT "NO actor had considered talking through his ass" before Ace Ventura. Maybe not, but now... More >>

• All About Me

  published August 22, 2002

  NO WONDER THE REST OF THE country hates Hollywood. It doesn't take much to see that the entertainment industry's non-cash contributions to the... More >>

• Someone Fishy

  published August 15, 2002

  It wasnt’ long befor last Thursday‘s conference call between financial analysts and Pixar Animation Studios turned to negotiations... More >>

• Hypocrisy Shows

  published August 8, 2002

    Hollywood has always had an infinite capacity for hypocrisy. But it still comes as a surprise when the entertainment industry... More >>

• Salesmanship or Snake Oil?

  published July 25, 2002

  Nothing about the current fervor to fight corporate sleaze is more amusing than the notion that big media and entertainment will obey the Leahy... More >>

• Megaplex Monopoly

  published July 18, 2002

    When might a monopoly be a good monopoly? When it’s in the megaplex business. Movie theaters are, indeed, upgrading.... More >>

• Hollywood's Dude

  published July 11, 2002

  THE LATEST IN HOLLYWOOD IS golf lingo. Alpha male-of-the-moment Jeff Kwatinetz's priapic posse at The Firm incessantly use metaphors about... More >>

• Vanity Too Fair

  published July 4, 2002

  BARRY DILLER FOUND IT PATHETIC. RON Meyer considered it foolish. And David Geffen loved it in the way a lion king relishes the kill. The... More >>