Nikki Finke Speaks! Is She Too Reclusive For Her Own Website?
"I regret to say I'm not holed up in the fetal position. All I can say to them is: nobody ever took my photo!" Nikki Finke laughs. Speaking to the Observer today about the photograph of the reclusive...
View ArticleNikki Finke Wants To Be Your Friend on Facebook
Screenshot from Deadline.com A million Deadline readers isn't cool. Know what's cool, Nikki Finke? A Farmville manqué. Nikki Finke's Deadline has apparently opened to the public its Facebook game in...
View ArticleThe Tussle for Tinseltown: Hollywood Hellcats Throw Down Over Traffic, Influence
Illustration by Fred Harper. One weeknight late last month, TheWrap.com editor in chief Sharon Waxman sent an email to The Hollywood Reporter’s editorial director, Janice Min, shortly before 1 in the...
View ArticleAsking Price for Variety? $30 Million or Less
Keith Kelly at the Post reports that Reed Elsevier has cut the asking price for Hollywood trade rag Variety to under $30 million, from over $40 million. The leading bidders include Jay Penske's Penske...
View ArticleCate Blanchett May Star in Cinderella Update
Deadline uses trade-publication-ese to report that Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is "in deep talks" about a live-action Disney film about Cinderella. Ms. Blanchett would play the evil stepmother...
View ArticleBreak Out the Bubbly: Rich Kids of Instagram Spawns E! Reality Show
Four years after the demise of Bravo’s NYC Prep, we still haven’t found the perfect replacement show about over-entitled rich kids behaving badly. But wipe those Dom Perignon-tinged tears off your face...
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