4 posts and columns on Defamer

Watch Hollywood Crater in a Single Sentence

in Media on February 1, 2010 at 11:57 am PT

DVD sales are collapsing, nearly as quickly as music sales did over the last decade. Just ask MGM, which saw sales drop off a very steep cliff in just a couple of years. And remember this when you hear talk of Hollywood’s resurgence or the coming boom in 3-D.

Sold! Hollywood Blog Queen Nikki Finke Goes to…Mail.com.

in Media on June 23, 2009 at 6:26 am PT

The Nikki Finke auction is over, and the winner is…Mail.com. Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corporation, which owns the Mail.com email service and a small portfolio of Web sites, has acquired the blogger, whose Deadline Hollywood Daily is a must-read for Hollywood.
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Gawker Refugees Get a Second Act: Defamer Crew Relaunches Movieline

in Media on April 14, 2009 at 3:10 am PT

Some people finish working for Nick Denton’s Gawker Media empire and do their best to never go back to blogging again. Not the veterans of Denton’s Defamer, the showbiz site he rolled into his Gawker flagship in February. The three men–Seth Abramovitch, Kyle Buchanan and S.T. VanAirsdale–are essentially reconstituting their old site, using the name and Web address of an even older site, Movieline.com.
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