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• You have the best, most honest and up-to-the-minute Hollywood news out there. Please don’t go all commercial on us. One of the things I love most about your site is the directness of the reporting and the focus of the stories. Your headline is always the essence of the tale. Rock on! You deserve it.

  Comment by Susie Marx — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 9:23am PST  Reply to this post

• Don’t sell out, Nikki. You work and this site works because you’re beholden to no one. Sell out and you become a sellout. Suddenly you have an editor to answer to and conflicts of interest will invariably arise. It will be the end of you because your credibility will come into question whenever links will be drawn to your subjects and your new owner/investor. Sure, make a better deal for advertising revenue share but don’t give up any ownership. Please. I’m a huge fan of yours.

  Comment by Shayne R — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 11:10am PST  Reply to this post

• I agree.

  And if you could, could you please disable the comments section for any future news article that’s even remotely political? The Drudge idiots like swarming on here and posting about stuff they don’t know about and fear. (I know it’s good for online traffic and ad revenue, but there’s got to be a limit to all the vile stuff being posted there.)

  I’m serious. Otherwise, keep up the fine work.

  Comment by Matt C — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 12:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• Matt C

  Spoken like a true liberal.

  I’ve seen the posts you are referring to. They are from people complaining that they are sick of liberal propaganda in movies. No profanity, no threats, just complaints against liberal Hollywood. Of course to you, that’s vile stuff. Anyone with a different point of view from you is vile.

  And like a true liberal you want to silence these vile opposing opinions by having Nikki close down the comments section on any future articles that are remotely political.

  Obama would be so proud of you.

  Comment by Pat — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 1:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• Pat

  Spoken like a two-faced lying true neocon – which is not the same as a conservative, I do know the difference. I guess you just skim over all the borderline racist and overtly homophobic nonsense that some of those “people” (likely just a dozen or so of the same wingnuts posting under different usernames) are writing on this site. I’ve witnessed some truly nasty, small-minded crap being spewed here and its both redundant and repugnant. Take it back to Drudge, this is a Hollywood INDUSTRY site.

  Comment by Joseph — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 3:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• Nikki – Please don’t sell out. I agree. Your tips will stop once you do. This is the number one site including Variety and Hollywood Reporter that I go to for my news. It’s so great I’d even consider working for you if you were ever interested in hiring. My resume is top notch for the job!

  Thanks.

  Cynthia

  Comment by Cynthia — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 3:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• The political and fandom blogs linking here for people to post their meaningless opinions are annoying, but no one forces me to look at the comments.

  I don’t bother looking at article comments for which more than 50 have posted. You have posted important agency news that is a hundred times more important than whatever is going to happen with Twilight, yet those have received a quarter of the comments. I think an important relationship exists in that the most significant news has the least commentary, but the more more trivial items of which more people consider themselves informed will receive more comments.

  Whatever the case, if the Twilight tweenage and middle-aged fangirls and the “Bush is a messenger of God” right wingers are providing the page views and uniques that help keep your news reporting platform open, I’m more than happy to let their comments flow.

  Comment by Harold — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 4:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• I’m a conservative who’s been coming to this site for a couple of years (usually daily) via my bookmarks and not from Drudge or any other blog. The comments above confirm my general opinion that the liberals here are not tolerant of opposing views no matter how they are expressed.

  I agree that any post with a ton of comments is going to be a waste of time to wade through – most of us are here because we love movies and the business, not to score cheap and meaningless points. I would suggest Nikki bring in political stuff only when absolutely necessary. Anything that dilutes the Finke brand is a bad thing so I hope the rumours of corporate overlords is wrong.

  One more – if you remember the Mr. Showbiz site way back in the 90s, they had a weekend box office challenge every week, and for the summer they had a longer contest where you run your own studio, buy up a roster of movies for X amount of money and see who rakes in the most by Labor Day. You could swap out your movies and there was a changing value for each one depending on how active it was. Lots of fun and I haven’t seen anything like it since.

  Comment by Joe Melnick — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 7:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hi Nikki,

  As with a few posters above, please try to think about the Drudge posters. They go insane when your BO reports are linked there. Anyone who can’t spell or doesn’t know “your” from “you’re” shouldn’t be allowed to post. I just don’t want your hard work and great source of news spoilt by internet crazies.

  Comment by michael dobrofsky — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 7:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• Pat, I wasn’t trying to generalize or anything like that, but there has to be a limit before healthy discussion turns into insults and flaming (which is what clearly happened with the Tyler Perry WGA thread which inexplicably turned into an Obama vs. McCain bashfest and little to do with the actual topic). There’s absolutely nothing wrong with voicing different opinions, it’s just that some people need to learn some restraint and be respectful of other people. It’s common courtesy.

  Then again, this is the internet. Take that as you will.

  Comment by Matt C — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 9:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• Get rid of the obnoxious “Toldja” nonsense… It’s high-school paper stuff.

  Comment by Clooty — Wednesday October 15, 2008 @ 11:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• Please sellout Nikki, so you can buy yourself a computer that doesn’t breakdown. Also don’t disable the comment section, except for things such as spam. A healthy discussion of your writing is good for everyone.

  She is not a slave to her audience or the industry where she works. Nikki has every right to improve her site and the readers shouldn’t hold it against her if she profits. Let’s have some have faith that Nikki will remain the same writer we enjoy reading.

  Comment by MurderBurgers — Thursday October 16, 2008 @ 5:23am PST  Reply to this post

• Please don’t change the site too much — it’s perfect the way it is. Seriously. So many sites are simple and then they get all of these bells and whistles and it’s just too much.

  Comment by Troy — Thursday October 16, 2008 @ 6:02am PST  Reply to this post

• I would be careful about making any changes. This blog is important for a couple of reasons.

  First of all, having access to the unvarnished announcements and unedited press releases allows people to read the raw information instead of it being condensed and interpreted in a misleading way by the mainstream press.

  The format of the blog highlights the important news in a way that Variety, etc. doesn’t. You go to Variety and all the stories are presented equally in a menu that doesn’t give a hint at their importance. You have to do your own digging to find information that’s important to you.

  Also, the best part of the blog is it’s written from a single, strong, opinionated viewpoint. You don’t want to lose that by hiring assistant writers or staff members who will turn out more stories but, in turn, water down the reporting.

  And finally, probably the best point is, is that it’s not all high-tech, whiz-bang fancy programming and stuff. It’s simple and accessible, and the comments often provide a perspective on the stories that are just as important as the stories themselves.

  So here’s hoping Deadline Hollywood isn’t changed in ways that destroys what is successful about it.

  Comment by Dan Zee — Thursday October 16, 2008 @ 7:50am PST  Reply to this post

• I echoe the voices Nikke that you should not sell out. Do what’s right for you. That is always the best recipe for success. And if you ever need help, we’ll I’m in the book…

  Comment by helenofpeel — Thursday October 16, 2008 @ 10:40am PST  Reply to this post

• “The comments above confirm my general opinion that the liberals here are not tolerant of opposing views no matter how they are expressed.”

  Whether it is “abortion is murder” conservatives or “a woman’s right to choose” liberals, I don’t give a crap about either of your political opinions on this website. I am annoyed by people of any political persuasion posting their poorly composed restatements of political banality here that originated from signficantly more competent people.

  But if it’s providing page views and uniques for DHD, please post away. In fact, I encourage Nikki to periodically trot out the Hollywood political contribution reports to give the two major political party fanboys/girls their red meat upon which they feel compelled to comment and kick up those page views and uniques.

  Just understand that 150+ posts of political opinion and 130+ posts of Twilight fangirl gushing have exactly the same argumentative value here.

  None.

  Comment by Harold — Thursday October 16, 2008 @ 6:15pm PST  Reply to this post