Nikki Finke

The question now is, What will News Corp. and Fox look like in a post–Peter Chernin world? Predicting whether Chernin would stay or go as Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s No. 2, and who might replace him (if anyone at all right away), had been Hollywood’s favorite guessing game recently. But now......

The people who put on the Academy Awards were in a flopsweat panic as the hours ticked away before 2009’s big broadcast. I was begged not to trash the planning and performances for this year’s telecast, as I’d done in years past, because of their frustration and fear that, if......

DreamWorks’ deal with Disney is done. But wait, didn’t DreamWorks already hype a distribution pact with Universal only four months ago? I can report exclusively that financially desperate DreamWorks needed $250 million — $100 million immediately and $150 million later, in the second tranche — to save its foundering Bollywood......

I confirmed that it’s authentic and from the set of Terminator Salvation, the Warner Bros. movie coming out this year. It’s the audiotape everyone in Hollywood is talking about, because it’s raw ranting. Filming at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico on July 18 last year, the movie’s star,......

Mutiny On The SAG Bounty: The brawling inside the Screen Actors Guild resulted in a knockout punch on January 26, when a mutinying “National Board Majority” — so described by anti-Membership First factions consisting of Unite For Strength members of the Hollywood division; the entire New York division except one......

It’s a completely meaningless awards show by a scandal-riddled organization on a network desperate for any kind of ratings. Yet there I was live-snarking the Golden Globes held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and broadcast on NBC. Jack Nicholson has mooned the audience, Jim Carrey has talked out of......

If ever there were a time for show-biz unions to stand together in solidarity, it was 2008. I’m talking SAG and WGA and even the employer-compliant DGA, as well as the low-cost toadies AFTRA and IATSE. Just how many ways is the Big Media cartel screwing the Hollywood guilds right......

Hollywood layoffs be damned! Jeez, but it’s bewildering why Paramount took out seven pages of full-page ads in The New York Times today for Revolutionary Road. ...

The huge news, the only news, is that there is a possibility that Hollywood could suffer another strike. After months of stalled negotiations and bitter acrimony between the two sides, both the Screen Actors Guild and the negotiators representing the Big Media Cartel sat down for federally mediated talks, which......