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• AVATAR to Beat SHERLOCK HOLMES at Christmas Weekend Box Office

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 583
  James Cameron’s Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) (top); Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr in Sherlock Holmes (Alex Bailey / Warner Bros.) (bottom)Probably because of both the enormous publicity surrounding its production costs and the nearly mythical place of Titanic in box-office history, Avatar’s box-office fate has ...
  15 hours ago

• Poll: Who Is The Top Online Editor Of 2009?

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 778
  If 2009 was a tough year for magazines and newspapers — and boy, was it ever — it was a bang-up year for the editors of the blogs listed below. Somewhere between these varied and influential websites lies the future of journalism and media. Whether that scares you or excites you probably depends on whether you ...
  4 days ago

• All about “Avatar” — Monday movie news notes

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 531
  I’m a bit pressed for time/writing energy right now, so this will be a somewhat abbreviated edition. * We have revised final figures on the first weekend take for “ Avatar ” and I suspect it’s the start of a trend. The original call was for $73 million, but Sunday turned out to be a bigger day than expected ...
  5 days ago

• Box Office Update

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Nikki Finke reports that the snow slowed Avatar’s opening slightly, making it the third highest of all time, behind I Am Legend and Return of the King.  Considering Avatar is long and 3-D is required, that’s still pretty good.  It should build steadily as word of mouth spreads.  Once regular people realize that ...
  1 week ago

• Avatar opens to $232 million worldwide

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  We’ll keep this brief, but numbers like these are rare and worth noting. Nikki Finke says that in spite of the snowstorms in the North East, Avatar passes The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King to become the 2nd biggest December opening ever, with a $73 mil domestic haul. (I Am Legend remains in first ...
  1 week ago

• AVATAR Expected to Gross $85 Million

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 583
  The Los Angeles Westside may not be getting a new suburb, after all. James Cameron’s sci-fi spectacle Avatar seems to be doing quite well at the box office, after grossing $3.5 million at midnight screenings on Friday. According to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood, Avatar was earning on a par with Star Trek ...
  1 week ago

• 2009 Spec Sale Analysis

  
  The Screenwriters League — Authority: 116
  Nikki Finke just posted a fascinating look at the 2009 spec sale stats . I remember seeing similar analysis of the market last year , and its always interesting (and reassuring) to track the stats. Last year, for point of reference, our buddy Scott over at Go Into The Story counted 88 spec sales. Some ...
  1 week ago

• Doing a jig on Varietys grave.

  
  Blogs - — Authority: 147
  With print journalism suffering, layoffs abounding... yeah, you know this story. Film trade Variety is now behind a slowly mounting paywall, while its rival the Hollywood Reporter got sold. Its grim out there for print entertainment journalism and news right now. It fell, therefore, to industry blogger Nikki Finke to ...
  1 week ago

• Nikki Finke Made a Traffic Boast Today [Nikki Finke]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 861
  Today Nikki Finke put out a press release claiming that her Hollywood gossip site Deadline.com attracts a bigger audience than Variety and The Hollywood Reporter combined. Were dubious but were going to stay quiet. But nothing about Finkes ever simple. One of my pet theories about the mystique surrounding ...
  1 week ago

• Oscar Nastiness Pot Calls Kettle Black

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Crazy Nikki Finke does the holiday routine of elderly, mean aunties everywhere, spreading gossip while pretending to just be the reporter telling the story of the bad behavior of others. First, she recounts the Blu-rays given out at the Leo DiCaprio party for Tobey Maguire. Not a secret. Wrote about it the next ...
  1 week ago

• Should we pay attention to the Golden Globe nominations?

  
  Althouse — Authority: 716
  Should we pay attention to Nikki Finke ? [T]he Golden Globes have zero integrity. Studios and networks who lavishly lobby the HFPA almost always score nominations. Stars win in direct correlation to their glamour quotient. Everything about the awards is geared towards hyping the medias interest and the telecasts ...
  1 week ago

• All Hail The 2009 Hollywood Black List

  
  :: The Playlist :: — Authority: 701
  The latest edition of The Black List surfaced on Friday, thanks to the intrepid reporting of Nikkie Finke. Yes, were a little behind, but we wanted to take a deeper look.Shes revealed all of the 97 screenplays on the list, compiled by studio executives sharing the details of the finest scripts on their desks yet to ...
  1 week ago

• Leonardo DiCaprio Hopes to Pillage Box Office in Viking Film [Trade Roundup]

  
  GossipFeast — Authority: 167
  Whats your favorite ancient Norse saga? read more
  1 week ago

• Avatar Embargo Smashed - That Didnt Take Long

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  So... Variety and The Hollywood Reporter twisted Foxs arm and demanded a screening this morning from Honeycutt and McCarthy because otherwise they would intentionally write spikey reviews via stringers in London, even though there was an embargo - busted by another print outlet - there too. As is inevitable, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another touchdown for “The Blind Side”

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 531
  First of all, my apologies for the pedestrian football metaphor in my headline tonight, but all the good ones have already been taken. Add to that the fact that, with my knowledge of sports, you’re likely to end up with “‘ The Blind Side ‘ hits a grand slam’” or “‘The Blind Side’ scores a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sheesh, Thanks for Noticing [Contests]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 861
  Yes, thats right : nobodys won the $1,000 prize for a Nikki Finke photo yet.
  3 weeks ago

• Soundbite: New York Times TV Reporter Is A “Fawning “Suck-Up”

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 778
  “If you think The New York Times television reporter Bill Carter’s usual suck-up coverage of the small screen biz has been even more fawning than usual to The Powers And Entertainers That Be, this is why: Carter is doing another book.” –Deadline Hollywood Daily’s Nikki Finke , never afraid ...
  3 weeks ago

• NBCs Butt Boy Bill

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 447
  NYT TV scribe and author Bill Carters crawled out of NBC honcho Jeff Zuckers ass just long enough write another book (a sequel to "The Late Shift" maybe)?  Six figures he gets all the while toiling at the Times. Deadline Hollywood Dailys Nikki Finke swallowed a few Carters Little Livid pills and rips Carter a new ...
  3 weeks ago

• California Dreamin: "Why would anybody stay in Chicago? Its freezing here, and I have a mansion in Montecito that I havent been able to enjoy."

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 447
  Oprah quits.  Boo-fucking-hoo . " Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and it feels right in my spirit ."  What feels right in her wallet and ego?  Hollywood harridan Nikki Finke knows the score:  ratings are down, local stations dont want to pay the hefty fees to carry her show .  Nikkis got the ...
  5 weeks ago

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