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Nikki Finke and Anne Thompson Move Up. Today in Film Bloggery 07/17/09

By Christopher Campbell posted 4 months ago

Thanks to a (front page?) article on Nikki Finke and Deadline Hollywood Daily in today’s New York Times, the much-derided, much-feared entertainment journalist is getting quite a lot of exposure, just in time for her transition to her new home at Mail.com Media. Also courtesy of the profile, written by David “Carpetbagger” Carr, we now learn that Finke’s deal with Mail.com is closer to $5-10 million rather than the $14-15 million being reported last month.

As if that wasn’t enough excitement for female film journalists today, we also found out that Anne Thompson, formerly of Variety, will now park her Thompson on Hollywood blog at indieWIRE (an official announcement is forthcoming). Meanwhile, though less film-related than the other two women, gossip magazine editor Bonnie Fuller is set to head Mail.com’s Hollywood Life. I don’t think we’ve seen this much girl power in one industry since the Spice Girls took the music world by storm.

Anyway, all I can say is that I wish them all luck and look forward to continuing to read their stuff (okay, this statement only includes Finke and Thompson) at their new homes. Now, let’s see what the rest of the film blogosphere has to say about the ladies after the jump:
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MOVIELINE Relaunched

By Karina Longworth posted 7 months ago

The switch was flipped on the Movieline.com moments ago. The relaunch of the Hollywood magazine of the 90s, the once eminently readable forerunner of the bloggy listicle most notable in recent years for its spectacular decline into toothless aspirational lifestyle mag Hollywood Life, immediately caught blogosphere attention when three editors from the recently shuttered Defamer were hired to steer the reincarnation effort. It looks like the boys (Seth Abramovitch, Kyle Buchanan and S.T. VanAirsdale) have been busy seeding the site with content over recent weeks: there are already interviews with Emily Blunt and the guy who directed the HBO version of Grey Gardens, as well as reviews of State of Play, Adventureland, Observe & Report, etc. There’s also a TV section, which is probably a wise move in terms of sheer numbers — to make room on a movie site for a graphic juxtaposing Barack Obama and Jeremy Piven is to show signs of an editorial strategy with the interests of the people in mind.

The verdict as of Hour One? So far, they don’t *exactly* seem to be reinventing the movie website wheel but, you know … it’s not like I am. And I’m looking forward to promised comebacks of old Movieline features, as well as the magazine’s actual archives.

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