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Dan Abrams fires back at a Hollywood Reporter legal item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012 FishbowlLA refereed a pointed dispute between two media operations — The Hollywood Reporter’s legal desk and Dan Abrams’s Mediaite — over how a story about a lawsuit had been reported. Then The trigger was a Hollywood Reporter…
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Chris Krewson jumps Variety for THR — the 2012 hire that signaled which way the trades were tilting
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late June 2012 Variety.com editor Chris Krewson — half of the duo, with Josh Dickey, that ran Variety’s digital news desk and most recently the public BlogDogger watchdog feature — left to take the equivalent role at THR.com. Three months…
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Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn, longtime Hollywood Reporter music editor, has died
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, 2012 Before entertainment news fractured across a hundred websites, a handful of trade-paper bylines defined how Hollywood understood its own music business. Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn was one of them. In June 2012, FishbowlLA marked his death. Then Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn, a veteran entertainment…
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When the trades fought over Angelina Jolie’s rumored Fifty Shades involvement — and what actually happened
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early June 2012 Variety’s film editor Josh Dickey and Variety.com’s Chris Krewson posted public, biting tweets about a Mike Fleming Deadline item that floated the possibility of Angelina Jolie directing the Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation. The trade war erupted…
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When Deadline’s Mike Fleming moonlighted as Playboy’s celebrity interviewer
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Long before he became one of the most-cited bylines in Hollywood deal coverage, Mike Fleming had a side gig: he conducted the marquee Q&A for Playboy. In 2012 FishbowlLA noted that the Deadline editor was still keeping that tradition alive,…
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Trade Fools, the anonymous 2012 Blogspot watchdog that the trades survived
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In the spring of 2012 a brand-new Blogspot site appeared called Trade Fools, written anonymously, with the single mission of grading and ribbing the four Hollywood trades. FishbowlLA gave it a welcoming hand. Fourteen years later, the trade-watchdog model it represented…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s website adds three editors
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A routine April 2012 masthead item from FishbowlLA captured The Hollywood Reporter staffing up its website during the Janice Min expansion years. Then THR.com announced that Seth Abramovitch had been appointed deputy editor, while Erin Carlson and Jordan Zakarin joined…
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Eriq Gardner’s 2012 promotion to THR senior editor — and the Hollywood, Esq. franchise
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early April 2012 The Hollywood Reporter promoted Eriq Gardner — the prolific contributor behind THR’s Hollywood, Esq. legal column — to the full-time senior editor role, partly to fill the New York gap created by Georg Szalai’s move to London.…
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How Deadline got caught by a Prometheus April Fools’ joke
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 April 1 is a hazard for fast-moving trade reporters, and in 2012 FishbowlLA caught Deadline.com failing the test — then declining to admit it cleanly. Then The prank originated at worstpreviews.com, in a fake item claiming James Cameron wanted to…
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The February 2012 trades traffic snapshot — and where those audiences ended up
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → For one month in early 2012, comScore caught a clean snapshot of the four Hollywood trades’ web audiences in a single grid. The Hollywood Reporter ran away with it. Deadline owned second. Variety and TheWrap traded the bottom two slots. The…