Nikki Finke has finally opened up –to a degree–about an agreement between her and the producers of the HBO show Tilda, which stars Diane Keaton as a Hollywood blogger based on Finke.
There is an agreement now in place among myself, Deadline’s parent company MMC, and Watski productions (which is producing the Tilda pilot) negotiated solely on my behalf by attorney Tal Vigderson. I still have no creative or consulting involvement with the show nor wanted any. I still won’t write about the show. And Deadline.com journalists can still write whatever they want about the show.
There are significant differences from the Tilda pilot script and Finke.
She does leave her house, meets people for meals, and doesn’t drink or do drugs. But Finke’s post leaves out a few key things. Did she sign a release promising never to sue HBO in exchange for six to seven figures, as the Village Voice suggests? Finke refuses to say anything beyond her post.
Here’s what I hear: It may be that lawyer Matt Belloni’s THR story, which laid out the ways that HBO might be legally vulnerable to the litigious Finke, was a factor in the eventual deal, which Finke did not chase. She wanted nothing to do with Tilda–no credit, no involvement of any kind. HBO chased her down, and her lawyer negotiated a deal. As to the money that presumably changed hands? No clue.
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