Queen Nikki to leave Deadline Hollywood and start nikkifinke.com

[iceroll]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/nikki-finke-is-trying-to-finally-leave-deadline-jay-penske

 

Penske Media Corp. bought Deadline Hollywood in 2009, and the site expanded to a staff of writers who, along with Finke, regularly break news. But when Penske bought Variety last year, shutting Finke out and becoming the owner of a direct competitor, the two began to clash. In June, The Wrap wrote that Penske had fired Finke. The feuding has continued sporadically since.

Finke now says she has an offer for more than $5 million from a company she wouldn’t name to start nikkifinke.com. “All I have to do is start writing.”

 

Dang, 5 million for Nikki?

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Hail to Nikki 

[dashrendar44]

Where do we apply?

[Dementeleus]

Nikki continues to crash and burn...

[iceroll]

Nikki continues to crash and burn...

I wouldn't call $5 mill crashing and burning.  How is she even commanding this kind of pay?  I doubt many people even know her outside of the box office community.

[CloneWars]

Yah. Umm, how the hell is she getting $5M. And, is that for a year contract? 5-year?

[Dementeleus]

I wouldn't call $5 mill crashing and burning.  How is she even commanding this kind of pay?  I doubt many people even know her outside of the box office community.

 

Presumably the money would be coming from somebody who wants to be a competitor to Variety/THR and/or TMZ. It's not a $5m paycheck for her, it's funds to build the site, staff it, get it up and running for some appreciable period of time, etc (and yes, some chunk would go to her). I don't put any faith in what she says, though.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

See ? Rumors are always true.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

I wouldn't call $5m that much a big deal for Nikki. She sold deadline to Penske for much more.

 

Nikki is a millionaire.

Edited October 25, 2013 by firedeep

[TLK]

Without Nikki Deadline is now going to end up as an appendage of Variety. Nikki build Deadline so she can build another one.

[Dementeleus]

Without Nikki Deadline is now going to end up as an appendage of Variety.

 

It's been an appendage of Variety ever since Pensky acquired both properties.

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

Hope it goes at least slightly better than boxofficeaddicts.com.

 

(A joke for the old timers)

[ladyevenstar22]

    finally a reason to use this smiley 

Edited October 25, 2013 by ladyevenstar22

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Hope it goes at least slightly better than boxofficeaddicts.com.

 

(A joke for the old timers)

That site was the shit back in the day, 

[ecstasy]

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke 1m

I now only have very limited access inside the Deadline website's admin after 7 1/2 years of full access. What a very sad day.

[ecstasy]

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke 14m

So don't expect any more box office from me. I also just tried to post an exclusive involving Jeff Robinov and Sony Pictures but couldn't.

[ecstasy]

Pietro Filipponi ‏@Poni_Boy 7m

Karma's a bitch stop being a ---- RT @NikkiFinke: I have been locked out of the Deadline Hollywood website which I founded 7 1/2 years ago

 

[Dementeleus]

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke 1m

I now only have very limited access inside the Deadline website's admin after 7 1/2 years of full access. What a very sad day.

 

You could've always turned down Penske's offer to buy you in the first place, Nikki.

[ecstasy]

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke 20m

NIKKI FINKE LOCKED OUT OF DEADLINE http://dlvr.it/4CDY5q 

 

 

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Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke 19m

I have been locked out of the Deadline Hollywood website which I founded 7 1/2 years ago. Jay Penske gave the order. Not even the staff knew

[ecstasy]

 

Nikki Finke ‏@NikkiFinke 1m

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For weeks now Jay Penske pledged to me he would wage 'nuclear war' on me unless I obeyed him and stayed at Deadline. He started it Wednesday