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2007 Stories by Nikki Finke

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  • Disaster in the Making

    published December 13, 2007

    THE LONGTIME HOLLYWOOD MAXIM is that he who loses his temper first loses. Well, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers... More >>

  • Strike by the Minute

    published December 6, 2007

    HAGGLING IS AS INTEGRAL TO HOLLYWOOD as verbal agreements are to greenlighting $200-million-budgeted blockbusters. The governing... More >>

  • Strike Fix

    published November 29, 2007

    Talks Friendly but Unproductive “Game of Chicken”Tuesday was the day that the writers and the producers were supposed to... More >>

  • Secret Agent Men

    published November 22, 2007

    BY NOW YOU PROBABLY KNOW about the survey by Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business Management in which two out of... More >>

  • On a Collision Course

    published November 15, 2007

    AMID ALL THE ON-LOCATION STUDIO and network picketing antics (kids, celebrities, even dogs, walked the line), the tragedy of the writers... More >>

  • Deals, Lies and Back Channels

    published November 8, 2007

    DAYS INTO THIS STRIKE, only sources within the Hollywood moguls’ camp have discussed what really went on during 11th-hour contract... More >>

  • WGA Strike Q&A

    published November 1, 2007

    Q. What’s the timetable if the Writers Guild of America calls a strike?As of press time, the writers’ walkout... More >>

  • Strike Happy

    published October 25, 2007

    AS THE STRIKE DEADLINE draws near, the nauseous stench of flop sweat has saturated movie and TV writers’ rooms, sound stages, and... More >>

  • Hollywood's He-Man Woman Haters Club

    published October 18, 2007

    I frequently write that all moguls are morons. Because I can’t believe the dreadful mistakes they commit on an almost daily basis. The... More >>

  • I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

    published September 13, 2007

    HOLLYWOOD HAS NO INSTITUTIONAL memory. One of the reasons that the vast majority of its execs aren’t in therapy, and should be, is... More >>

  • Moonves Should Pull the Plug on Kid Nation

    published August 30, 2007

    AS THE FALL TELEVISION season sneaks up on us, all anyone is talking about is CBS’s highly promoted Kid Nation, but for all... More >>

  • The Worst Talent Deal Ever

    published August 23, 2007

    ONCE UPON A TIME, Jim Carrey was so hot at playing a nutcase over and over that he scored what in 1996 was the best talent deal ever in... More >>

  • Agency Clients, an Old Coot, and Counting Chads

    published August 9, 2007

    The Unkindest Cut of AllEndeavor, the powerful boutique tenpercentery, is in the unusual process of quietly dropping clients across the... More >>

  • The Hollywood Reporter's New Editor:

    published August 2, 2007

    PUBLISHER JOHN KILCULLEN KEPT SAYING for months and months he was looking for a “big, big name” to be The Hollywood... More >>

  • Nasty, Nasty, Nasty

    published July 19, 2007

    AFTER 32 YEARS OF WORKING together, it’s all over between ICM and iconic motion-picture talent agent Ed Limato, who was also the... More >>

  • Grey the Transformer

    published July 5, 2007

    {mosimage}PARAMOUNT PICTURES CHIEF BRAD GREY was on the phone this week talking about his studio’s release of... More >>

  • They Must Be High

    published June 28, 2007

    Hip ’n’ HempBen Silverman has passed his GE-mandated drug test and is officially an NBC employee. So no big deal, right?... More >>

  • Evan's in Need of a Miracle

    published June 21, 2007

    THERE’S NONE OF THE USUAL reassuring platitudes. Instead, moguls at the studio are resorting to just plain prayers. Because... More >>

  • Fade to Black

    published June 14, 2007

    WHAT A RIDICULOUSLY DISAPPOINTING END — lacking in creativity and full of cowardice. No, I’m not just talking about the finale ... More >>

  • That Zucks!

    published June 7, 2007

    {mosimage}Granted, the TV networks have always been the killing fields for creativity, but camaraderie usually governed the... More >>

  • Aging Stormtroopers, Bland Blockbusters and Ingénues

    published May 24, 2007

    Box Office StormtroopersIt used to be that a simple yardstick could measure generational change in Hollywood: those who went into the biz... More >>

  • No More Monday Nights at Morton's

    published May 17, 2007

    I’M CONSTANTLY AMAZED how the Hollywood media seem to have no institutional memory when it comes to the Industry’s culture.... More >>

  • The Blockbusters Cometh

    published May 3, 2007

    Movie-industry heathens like you and me will always remember where we were when Mel Gibson made his drunken anti-Semitic tirade, when Tom... More >>

  • High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills

    published April 19, 2007

    Hey, Big Spenders...Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is slated to open May 25 around the world. But there’s a proble... More >>

  • Across an Alternate Universe

    published April 12, 2007

    What a mess surrounds Revolution Studios’ Across the Universe, thanks to the idiocy of hiring director Julie Taymor. She may b... More >>

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