Hot Trailer: ‘Man Of Steel’ 
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ABC’s ‘Nashville’ Undergoes Production … 
CBS Wins Season & Ties Sweep In Demo; ABC Tops Adults … 
Mike Lobell Adds Cast To ‘Eisner,’ Plots … 
Sony Shares Rise On Report That It Will Consider … 
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Next-Gen Xbox One Unveiled With Content Including … 
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Cannes: Weinstein Co Acquires Keanu-Reese Sci-Fi Pic … 
RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Up … 
Hot Trailer: ‘The Wolverine’ 
Ric Robertson Taking Paid Summer Hiatus From Movie Academy … 
Obama Scandals Bring MSNBC 7-Year Low While Fox News Rises 
Season Finale Of CBS’ ‘Mike & Molly’ … 
Ang Lee Departs FX Pilot ‘Tyrant’ 
I want to share this exciting news: it looks like October 2010 will become the biggest traffic month in Deadline Hollywood’s 4.5-year history. I won’t know for sure until after the 31st, but halfway through October we’d already blown by September’s total number of uniques and visits and page views. And we’ve achieved this traffic surge without lowering our journalism standards: we keep the focus on the entertainment business, not its private lives or celebrity nonsense. Thank you again for supporting Deadline.
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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I’m “a new visitor” in October and Deadline is now on my list of sites I visits regulary through the day. Keep up the good work!
Ditto. This place is entertaining, intelligent, informative, juicy, witty…just like the best dinner table conversation. I’m addicted!
And, I’m convinced you’ve laced this site with something – because it’s addicting.
Congratulations, very well done.
Congrats to you and your staff. This site blows away all other Hollywood sites for content.
I guess you’re the new Variety…
No use tripping on those velvet ropes.
You had quite a few huge Exclusives this month and its no surprise that they generated a lot of hits. Mike Fleming has been working quite hard and adding him to the site was a stroke of genius.
and nellie covering tv, too.
she rocks.
Congrats! The best website what I know!
DHD is the first stop for info. You can tell in conversations around town who’s read the updates and who’s about to go read them.
STOP SAYING “TOLDJA.” It’s petulant and needy, and you are no longer a child.
“petulant and needy” pretty much describes this biz.
Movie-related websites have turned into a collection of everyone linking to each other’s site with only a handful of sites actually coming up with scoops. Congrats on being among that handful.
Congrats to you and your team and continued success!
Thanks to Neelie’s detailed TV coverage, Deadline has won me back again as a regular visitor! Keep up the good work!
This is filling a void that has existed ever since Premiere magazine folded and Entertainment Weekly degenerated into a mere gossip rag. Now Hollywood Reporter is going to try to gain mojo by copying Deadline. LOL.
P.S.: is there anything that can be done about the political trolls?
I love your site and am thrilled for your success, Nikki, but I hope the uptick is not due to the flood of Drudge readers who come here to spew their hate speech every time Drudge links one of your articles.
Oh please. Drudereport is one of the most viewed websites on the internet. I read deadline almost every day now because drudge linked here. I am also a bit disappointed Nikki did not at least acknowledge DrudgeReport.
Awesome. I am basically a daily reader of deadline Hollywood aka deadline Hollywood loyal (DHWL). I think we need to create a page for the loyals other than the original one.
Idea: facebook.com/dhwl let me know what you all think.
Bravo Nikki’s Deadline Hollywood
First of all, congratulations. I’m a ‘civilian’ who lives in Canada and started reading Variety when I was a teenager. I was hooked on it for decades until a few years ago when I thought it started going downhill – less trenchant, less informative, less of everything. So I was thrilled to discover your site and am now a regular reader. The recent additions of the in-depth interviews and the film festival coverage make it even better – I really like the combination of the hard news and reporting and the ‘softer’ stuff.
But I have a bone to pick. Your snarkiness is one of the hallmarks of your style and we love you for it. But sometimes you go too far. So I hope you don’t mind my writing to complain about your coverage of ‘Eat Pray Love’. I never read the book, I am not a fan of the movie (except for Richard Jenkins’ performance), and Julia Roberts is far from my favorite actor. But I think your coverage of the film, starting when it was in development and continuing on into its release, has been wildly unfair and over-the-top.
You obviously hated the material calling it ‘treacly’, a ‘music video of a film’ and saying that you ‘hoped women had better taste in movies than this’. Fair enough. But then you went on to call Roberts a ‘has-been star’ who can’t open a movie and to say that ‘Paramount was right to pass on what looked like a one-quadrant loser’ for ‘older females’. When Sony picked it up, you gleefully wrote ‘How I love it when Hollywood studios bitchslap one another’ and made it clear you couldn’t wait for the film to fail.
As a journalist who believes in fairness, maybe it is time for you to do a follow-up now that the movie is up to a $167 million gross and counting. Look, I don’t think women should get special treatment in Deadline but your coverage seemed incredibly sexist and even vituperative. Shouldn’t women have the same right as men to have mediocre crap made for them? Shouldn’t women stars have the same right as men to be wildly overpaid?
In a Hollywood environment that churns out uninspired vehicles for male stars young and old, not to mention plenty of unwatchable Apatow-clone movies, what was it about ‘Eat Pray’ that pushed your buttons?
Maybe it’s time for you to admit you were wrong and congratulate Julia and Amy for having a substantial hit on their hands. Sure, you might wish that the projects they get involved with were better and more to your taste – anyone can dream. But keep Deadline above the fray. When you have an axe to grind, be a bit more careful where you point it.
relax…
Great points, well made. Way to keep Nikki honest.
Congrats to Nikki and team! I check this site regularly mostly for the news and articles, sometimes for the wacky commenters
Congrats. And I applaud your journalistic standards… except for your “hot trailer” segment. Movie trailers are hardly industry news — they’re meant for the public, are available on many sites, and push down real stories. (And are they really ALL “hot?”)
Congrats to you and your staff. Keep up the good work!
Love your website. It is the New Hollywood order! No more Variety, Hollywood Reporter. I am an avid reader/participant!
big fan. Thx
I found this site because all the movie coverage sites I go to were consistently linking here for exclusive news. This is now my #1 go-to site. You ARE the new Variety and Hollywood Reporter, whether they like it or not. Congrats and keep up the excellent work.
Nikki…I can’t get through the day without several doses of Deadline. I’m even thinking of letting my subscription to Variety lapse…how about that??!!
Your site started with an edge and a voice, and then great writers/reporters were added, including Mike Fleming. I have to admit that your comment section being neatly available below the articles is not only a brilliant way to establish a community around your site, but it is my daily guilty pleasure, as well. Your site is a great execution of a plan by a very smart lady. Best wishes.
You are the scoop-meister! Why go anywhere else to read Deadline’s news from yesterday.
you guys totally earn it. i come to you everyday to see what’s being bought/sold and what’s trending where. it’s EXTREMELY vital to what kind of projects i want to develop. thanks so much. you’re the best…
Unfortunately, it seems many of the most actively commented on threads are predictably linked from Drudge (or other right-leaning sites) as Hollywood Hate Bait. Those comments usually offer nothing but annoyance to those of us in the business who love this site for its unique pulse on entertainment. Goes with the success, I guess.