Feared Hollywood reporter/blogger/gossipmonger Nikki Finke might have been fired by Deadline.com. Why should this matter to anyone who's not Hollywood? Because it matters to people who decide what matters – and because Finke gets what she wants.

For the first time since revealing her preventative double mastectomy to The New York Times, Angelina Jolie hit the red carpet with Maddox, Pax, and her really obscure commonlaw partner Brad Pitt at the premiere of his film World War Z, which I keep confusing with Z For Zachariah because because. She told the press:…

Cutthroat Hollywood reporter and famed recluse Nikki Finke was not happy that Modern Family's Julie Bowen won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series last night. Why? Because Bowen is too damn beautiful and not nearly funny enough to deserve the recognition. In fact, according to Finke, few of…

In May of last year, news broke that Ellen Page and Diane Keaton were filming a pilot for Tilda, an HBO show loosely based on journalist and film business blogger Nikki Finke. Over the weekend, Nikke Finke had Oscar press credentials yanked for leaking details about the award show. And now? HBO has axed the pilot for …

Vanity Fair has spiked a story about three women overseeing Hollywood coverage — Nikki Finke, Sharon Waxman, and Janice Min — "because it wasn't catty enough. They wanted a catfight story," according to The New York Post's anonymous insider.

Let it not be said that HBO isn't trying to correct its bromance-oriented series lineup. Ellen Page will join Diane Keaton in the pilot for Tilda, loosely based on the fractious entertainment blogger Nikki Finke.

Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood issue includes a "Power List" by Nikki Finke — the woman (who writes like a man") behind Deadline Hollywood. The blog Women In Hollywood zeroes in on Finke's list, which has one man on it.

As a woman with influence in a town that considers itself "ballsy," Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke gets a lot of nasty comments about her anatomy. But she can more than dish them out.

Despite the fact that Twilight has already made a profit of about $100 million in the space of 3 weeks, Nikki Finke broke the news yesterday that director Catherine Hardwicke was fired from the Vampire-lovin' franchise. She will not direct New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, and an insider from Summit Films tells Finke…

Ever since Sex and the City turned out to be a money making juggernaut, Warner Brothers has decided to aggressively market The Women. "This is an about-face from the studio's earlier decision to leave plans intact for about-to-shutter Picturehouse to debut the chick flick in limited release and with a small P&A," says…

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories

Mariah Carey wants to try speed dating! What we wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at that event. • The Golden Globes ceremony has been canceled due to the Writer's Guild boycott. Our girl Nikki Finke has the scoop. • Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson have been hanging out in Hawaii together. Totally Owen and Woody's…

The New York Observer names LA Weekly blogger Nikki Finke its "Media Mensch Of The Year." If you don't know Nikki from our previous adulation, she's a veteran Hollywood journalist with a bottomless reserve of outrage re media consolidation, hypocrisy, conflicts-of-interest, chauvinist arrogance disguised as…

A big story in the New York Times wonders whether the big-budget upcoming movie Charlie Wilson's War will be able to overcome the fact that it's about, like, history and politics and a seemingly obscure would-be footnote in Cold War history that fatefully happened to set the stage for the current War On Terror or…

Many of you may be aware that a Writers Guild of America strike is basically a forgone conclusion at this point, but you might not realize how the lack of working screenwriters might affect the average couch potato like yourself. To recap: the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which includes writers in the motion…

Last week the legendary L.A. Weekly movie business reporter Nikki Finke broke news that Warner production chief Jeff Robinov had issued a studio-wide freeze on movies with female leads. (The rationale: a Jodie Foster movie for which the movie posters had misspelled "Jodie Foster" bombed.) Okay, so then, naturally, he…

There are lots of things to hate about The Hills, namely that it is not dead. For starters, we hate that all the cast members recite their lines with the same profound sense of purpose that the popular seniors used to employ when giving, like, an oral presentation? On, like, the Reformation? (Which granted universal…