Nikki Finke is back. Again. Two years after leaving Deadline Hollywood—the industry news site she created in 2006—her newest endeavor, Hollywood Dementia, has gone live. And this time, she’s replacing big scoops with short stories.
Included in Nikki Finke’s settlement with Jay Penske—the Variety and Women’s Wear Daily owner who acquired Deadline in 2009, with whom Finke entered arbitration in 2013—is a provision that she may not practice online journalism about the entertainment industry for around a decade, the New York Times reports.
After a whole nine months of silence, Nikki Finke has unveiled the newest iteration of her career: a website called HollywoodDementia.com, which is accompanied by a comeback manifesto that is shorter but no less bizarre than the one that came before it.
Rumor! According to the New York Times, vengeful Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke is in talks with Politico to “write about Washington as a political columnist.” Know anything about Finke’s new gig? Drop us a line.
How do you get a quote from Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal for a column you want to write about her? It helps if you're good friends with her husband—and it helps even more if you show him your column in advance to assure Pascal that the coverage is positive.
Nikki Finke has put her eponymous comeback site out to pasture with nothing more than a whimper. As pointed out by Kate Aurthur of Buzzfeed, the Hollywood rage-blogger has taken down NikkiFinke.com except for the post you see above.
Back in 2009, Defamer offered $1,000 for new pictures of Nikki Finke, the then-powerful, much-feared Hollywood blogger who hadn't been photographed in God knows how long. Two years later, The Daily published what it claimed—but what Finke denied—were photographs of the mysterious writer. But now, finally (?) we have…
Nikki Finke, the longtime Hollywood journalist equally feared and hated by much of the film industry's elite, broke her seven-month hiatus today with a letter announcing her return to the internet at NikkiFinke.com. The letter is—as it always was going to be—a tour de force.
#CancelColbert? More like #PutColbertOnNetworkTVInFrontOfAnEvenLargerAudience, if rumors about CBS's plans to replace Late Night host David Letterman next year are true. Mashable reports Colbert is "the front-and-center candidate" for the job.
After John Ridley won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar on Sunday night for his work on 12 Years a Slave, 12 Years director Steve McQueen offered a less-than-enthusiastic palm clap for his colleague. And then Ridley refused to thank McQueen during his acceptance speech. What gives?
Walking into the event, the men at the escalators were quick to ask, "Do you want to do the red carpet? Because if you want to do the red carpet, you must go downstairs." Down an escalator and through the hall, the red carpet—a thing one might do—sat in between two sliding glass doors. It looked like red Astroturf and…
The Nikki Finke-Jay Penske Deadline battle has taken a cinematic turn; Roger Ebert's family is trying to get his thumbs up memorialized in bronze; please stop all liquid intake at least 12 hours before The Wolf of Wall Street; and How I Met Your Mother continues to irk.
Peter Kaplan, the editor of the New York Observer for fifteen years, whose talent and affability helped the publication offer a smart, insider's view of New York City's elite, died of cancer on Friday at the age of 59.
As expected, the battle between PMC's Jay Penske and Deadline creator and former editor Nikki Finke is far from over. The LA Times reports that Penske has now brought Finke to arbitration—a move many suspected was imminent, once Finke made plans to launch her own site, NikkiFinke.com.
A kiss from Melissa Joan Hart could really ruin your career; Rachel gets The Rachel, even though she really used to hate The Rachel; Harvey Weinstein is already scheming for 2016 to back the president with the most pull at the Mars Chocolate Company; and CBS is still so mad at Dan Rather.
The ongoing battle between PMC's Jay Penske and Deadline's Nikki Finke started with a bang and is now ending with a whimper, as Finke is finally out of the motor oil heir's slippery clutches. Finke shared with me that while she's happy to be free from Deadline, she is sad over the way the separation played out, and…
Tired as we all may be about seeing the words Nikki Finke and Deadline appear on this website today, Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr. has shot back at Finke. In a mildly interesting but slightly expected turn of events, Fleming sells his boss down the river in his latest blog post, proving that good friends do indeed stab…
Nikki Finke, now in day one zillion of her ongoing battle with Deadline owner Jay Penske, is claiming that she's been locked out of Deadline. Yet... she was somehow able to post to Deadline about being locked out. Interesting.
Nikki Finke is not leaving Deadline quietly. In fact, according to my exclusive conversation with her on Thursday night, she's leaving amidst a litany of accusations ranging from boredom to slavery. According to Finke, "[Penske] owns me like I'm his slave" and has been harassing her. She goes on to say that the…
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