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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2009 Stories by Nikki Finke

• Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

  published December 17, 2009

  I love awards season because my e-mail box gets jammed with negative campaigning about all the Academy Awards hopefuls. Such... More >>

• THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

  published December 10, 2009

  Just what the world needs — bigger and better flacking. But what is being described to me as the largest U.S.... More >>

• Why the Comcast/GE/NBCU Deal May Harm Consumers

  published December 3, 2009

  “Project Crimson” has from the start been the code name for the biggest media merger in recent memory, and all 290... More >>

• This Is It Almost Wasn't

  published October 29, 2009

  What’s the difference between a dead Michael Jackson and a dead cow? You can’t milk a dead cow. I’ve been... More >>

• Trick or Treat

  published October 15, 2009

  “SCARING PEOPLE’S BRAINS OUT”The big story in Hollywood is the return of The Blair Witch Project. Only this... More >>

• Hollywood Is All About Karma

  published October 8, 2009

  First, Walt Disney CEO/president Bob Iger fired Dick Cook as chairman of the Walt Disney Studios and on October 5 named Disney... More >>

• 61st Emmys: Deja Vu All Over Again

  published September 24, 2009

  The best line at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards was from Tina Fey (of course), who said, “We want to thank our... More >>

• The Writers Guild Cleared Jay Leno, but Now Must Indict Itself

  published September 10, 2009

  Few issues during the November 2007/February 2008 writers strike stirred as much anger and emotion as whether Writers Guild,... More >>

• A Marvel-ous Deal for Mickey

  published September 3, 2009

  The first thing you should know is that Bob Iger has comic books in his blood. And the second thing you should know is that... More >>

• Quentin and Harv, Marty and Leo, Tom and Jerry

  published August 27, 2009

  I broke the news that Paramount is moving Shutter Island from fall 2009 to February 19, 2010. Weird, because the... More >>

• A Tale of Two Movies

  published August 20, 2009

  Why It’s an Alien NationPeter Jackson’s low-budget indie prod District 9 opened big — a $37M weekend,... More >>

• Funny People, Funny Business

  published August 6, 2009

  FUNNY PEOPLE NO LAUGHING MATTERMonday actuals (including Sunday’s real box office and not just estimates) show... More >>

• The Ben Silverman Experiment Ends

  published July 30, 2009

  Here’s the e-mail that Ben Silverman sent to Hollywood pals announcing his exit from NBC Universal and landing at Barry... More >>

• Life is Good for Seacrest, MGM, Letterman and WME

  published July 23, 2009

  RYAN SEACREST IS CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAPRyan Seacrest may be rapidly becoming one of the richest guys in... More >>

• LATE-NIGHT TALK SHOW WARS

  published July 16, 2009

  So it looks like there’ll be dueling press releases throughout the summer in the Conan O’Brien versus David Letterman battle for... More >>

• Worst Oscar Ideas Ever

  published July 2, 2009

  By now you’ve probably heard how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to allow 10 Oscar nominees... More >>

• Paramount's Black Friday

  published June 25, 2009

  The way Paramount rolls, it’s hard to keep things private at that studio. (Remember all those Paramount versus... More >>

• NBC Universal: Big Media's Big Stick

  published June 18, 2009

  It’s a very dangerous situation when any multinational corporation wages war against media companies. Especially when... More >>

• How The Hangover Got Made

  published June 11, 2009

  If you listen to Warner Bros.’ version of the back story behind The Hangover, this weekend’s No. 1 film... More >>

• Summer Movies: Villains and Heroes, Robots and Mad Men

  published June 4, 2009

  By the time you read this, screenwriter Allan Loeb (21, Things We Lost In The Fire) will have handed in his second draft of... More >>

• William Morris: It's a Takeover, Not a Merger

  published May 28, 2009

  Beginning June 1, Hollywood’s newest talent agency, WME Entertainment, will hold a series of meetings to merge its two... More >>

• Survivor, Hollywood-Style

  published May 21, 2009

  MGM Fights To SurviveAnd you think your monthly credit-card payments are steep? Faced with $3.7 billion in debt due in... More >>

• Summer Movies Blast Off With A Howl

  published May 14, 2009

  Oh, sure, $79.3 million later, everybody can say now they thought J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot was a... More >>

• They Urged, They Merged: William Morris and Endeavor Agree to Become One

  published April 30, 2009

  Oh, sure, it looks like the start of a beautiful friendship now. On April 27, three of the Endeavor partners who will... More >>

• Piracy, Pickets and Peter Bart

  published April 9, 2009

  Over the past week, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the fourth in the Marvel/20th Century Fox franchise, was illegally... More >>