The more reserved of the two Hollywood watchdogs, Sharon Waxman hit out against her competitor Nikki Finke this week. In a post titled, "Memo to Nikki: Stop Saying TheWrap Isn't Breaking Stories," Waxman takes aim at previous Finke claims that Waxman's newly launched media site, TheWrap.com isn't br...

Baz Luhrmann takes a long time to make a movie. His Australia came out seven years after Moulin Rouge!, which came out five years after Romeo + Juliet. The gestation periods are so long that nothing is ever set in stone, in terms of his future projects, until cameras have started rolling. Which is w...

As you may have heard, Chris Weitz has been tapped to replace Catherine Hardwicke as the director of New Moon, the sequel to Stephanie Meyer's vampire love story Twilight. ("TOLDJA!," Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke shouted when the news was announced.) By way of introduction, Mr. W...

Once upon a time, Nikki Finke and Sharon Waxman were pals. So there's a possibility that this latest rumble in the jungle over a supposed "secret SAG meeting" when stars were brought on board to support a possible strike is intended to build Waxman's traffic. UPDATE: Or, Patrick Goldstein suggests, ...

Ben Silverman, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio and executive producer of NBC's The Office, The Biggest Loser, and ABC's Ugly Betty, appeared on Charlie Rose last night to talk about YouTube vs. Hulu, the iPhone, the awesomeness of The Today Show, and other yawn-i...

We're receiving our first signals this week that the Jon Favreau Power Index has irrevocably entered "player" levels of awareness. While the global $550 million take for Iron Man says pretty much all the industry needs to know about the viability of the franchise itself, director Favreau bristled re...

Filed under: Action, Fandom, Distribution Unless Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely inexplicably turns into a blockbuster when it hits theaters in limited release (and, hey, it deserves the attention), chances are Iron Man will be the top grosser for the weekend of May 2. But just how much moneymaking p...