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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler work the Golden Globes Q&A trail — January 2013 BFF hosting cycle
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In mid-January 2013, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler executed a substantial press-tour cycle ahead of their first co-hosting turn at the Golden Globes. The cycle included exclusive interviews with The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly, plus a Wednesday-afternoon conference…
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Pete Hammond’s Not-So-Great Gatsby moment — Deadline at the 2013 Cannes opener
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In mid-May 2013 the 66th Cannes Film Festival opened with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, and Deadline’s Pete Hammond filed a review-cum-coverage piece that other critics — Alonso Duralde at TheWrap among them — found uncomfortably close to studio-marketing tone. Then…
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The Hollywood Reporter launches a ‘Behind the Screen’ tech blog
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 An April 2013 item marked The Hollywood Reporter staking out a beat that the streaming era would make far more important than it looked at the time. Then The Hollywood Reporter launched ‘Behind the Screen,’ a new hollywoodreporter.com blog curated…
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PMC and Prometheus settle the Deadline/THR copyright suit — and the road to the eventual THR acquisition
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late March 2013, PMC and Prometheus Global Media settled the 2011 copyright-infringement lawsuit that had defined the public-facing posture of the Deadline-vs-THR rivalry for 18 months. Jay Penske’s company announced the deal at the close of a busy week that…
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Josh Dickey leaves Variety for TMZ — the March 2013 hire and the post-PMC trade exodus
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late March 2013, Variety film editor Josh Dickey — whose career FishbowlLA had been tracking for years — accepted the managing editor role at TMZ.com. Nikki Finke once again broke the Variety-internal news on Deadline. The exit fit a clear…
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When Deadline and Variety moved into the same Westwood high-rise — a March 2013 cohabitation
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In March 2013, PMC announced that Variety, Deadline, and its other web publications would soon be sharing the same Westwood high-rise at 11175 Santa Monica Boulevard. The Twitter wisecracks comparing it to a reality show were predictable. One floor of the…
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Erin Weinger joins THR.com as Style Editor — and the fashion-brand build-out
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late February 2013 The Hollywood Reporter announced Erin Weinger as its new Style Editor on the website side, reporting to culture editor Degen Pener and THR.com editor Chris Krewson. The hire signaled how seriously THR’s Janice Min era was treating…
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Marc Bernardin, Tatiana Siegel, and Jen Hoche join THR — January 2013 buildout continues
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013, The Hollywood Reporter continued its editorial-staff buildout with Marc Bernardin, Tatiana Siegel, and Jen Hoche. Then Bernardin joined as a film and TV writer with a comics-and-genre background from Entertainment Weekly and io9. Siegel came in as…
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Finke breaks news of pending Variety layoffs — three months after the PMC deal closed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013, Nikki Finke published a Deadline.com item announcing that PMC was planning Variety editorial firings in March. The story was unusual not because the layoffs were happening — that was widely expected — but because the breaking of…