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January 2012’s Deadline-vs-Variety time-stamp fight — Mike Fleming responds to Emma Stone and Sundance scoop accusations
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2012 In late January 2012, Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming publicly responded to back-to-back Variety.com blog posts that had insinuated Deadline had been falsifying the time-stamps on its Emma Stone and Sundance Film Festival scoops. Fleming’s response was that the accusations were…
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Two Hollywoods on one Hollywood Reporter week — Norman Lloyd’s 98 years and the Next Gen 2012 list
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In early November 2012, The Hollywood Reporter staged two cultural-celebration events in the same week that captured opposite ends of the industry’s generational range. The Next Gen 2012 list — Hollywood’s fastest-rising executives and creatives under 35 — was…
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Marc Malkin disputes the Hollywood Reporter’s Kristen Stewart ‘Snow White’ item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In August 2012 FishbowlLA dissected a disagreement between The Hollywood Reporter and E! News over a single verb — whether Kristen Stewart had been ‘dropped’ from a Snow White and the Huntsman sequel. Then The Hollywood Reporter, in a story…
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When Deadline’s “TOLDJA!” became a Hollywood trade-press in-joke
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Every newsroom develops its own house style. Few have ever been as loud — literally, in all caps — as Deadline’s. Then In August 2012, FishbowlLA caught a small but revealing exchange between the warring entertainment trades. Deadline’s Mike Fleming…
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A TV director’s satirical answer to Kim Dotcom
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012, as the Megaupload case ground on, FishbowlLA highlighted a working filmmaker’s wry rebuttal to Kim Dotcom’s overtures to Hollywood. Then Kim Dotcom had published a conciliatory July 17 open letter in The Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Bruce Leddy…
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Patrick Goldstein’s 2012 trades ranking — Deadline 1st, Variety 4th, and the awards-ads tell
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012, Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein spent a week calling Hollywood and asked an awkward question — where does Variety actually rank now? — and got an awkward answer. The trades had been reordered, and Variety’s century-long presumption…
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Myles McNutt’s 2012 critique of Emmys mainstreaming — how AwardsLine and EW worked
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student and Cultural Learnings/A.V. Club TV critic Myles McNutt published an Antenna piece arguing that Deadline.com’s AwardsLine supplement and Entertainment Weekly’s For-Your-Consideration coverage had functionally become extensions of studio campaign promotion rather than independent…
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THR’s 2012 Skype interview with Kim Dotcom — and the 13-year extradition fight that followed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012 The Hollywood Reporter senior writer Daniel Miller landed a Skype interview with Kim Dotcom from New Zealand, days after a court postponement of his U.S. extradition hearing. Dotcom called the January 2012 raid on his Auckland mansion “an…
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TheWrap questions the Hollywood Reporter’s finances; Janice Min responds
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012 TheWrap put hard numbers on a question the trade press preferred to leave vague: was the relaunched, glossy Hollywood Reporter actually making money? Then With Richard Beckman exiting Prometheus Global Media and Dottie Mattison replacing him, TheWrap’s…
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Sharon Waxman’s 2012 ‘ugly THR picture’ — and Janice Min’s response
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early July 2012, with Richard Beckman exiting Prometheus Global Media and Dottie Mattison taking over the THR-and-Billboard parent company, TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman ran a piece painting an ugly behind-the-scenes picture at the trade publication. Janice Min responded publicly. Then Waxman’s…