Entertainment blogger Nikki Finke was the victim of a Hollywood hoax involving one of her recent scoops, Page Six has learned.

Finke, who’s locked in a bitter battle with her former site Deadline.com, launched competing NikkiFinke.com in June and posted an “exclusive” in the site’s first week that Max Landis — son of John Landis — was rewriting long-gestating “Ghostbusters 3” with a “three-week turnaround.” That post was hastily taken down after Landis denied the report as having “zero truth.”

It turned out the fictional story was an elaborate hoax played on Finke through her site’s “tip line,” which even used her bitter rival, Deadline.com, and its sister print publication, Variety, as bait.

Sources say Finke last month received at least five e-mails through her tip line with detailed info about Landis and the “Ghostbusters” sequel, including that studio brass was impressed with footage from Landis’ upcoming adaptation of “Frankenstein,” as well as other particulars.

Dangling the carrot further, one “tipster” claimed Deadline was running the Landis story the next day. Another begged Finke not to run the story as it was promised exclusively to Variety.

Finke pulled the trigger. Landis then tweeted, “It pains me to say this, but [there’s] zero truth to the Ghostbusters report.”

Finke confirmed to us she’d been had, and added, “I always check out every tip I receive. In this case, an executive at Sony mistakenly confirmed it, so I went with it. In the beginning I received several hoax tips, and I’m extra, extra, extra careful.”

Sony had no comment. A studio source said, “She doesn’t call studios to fact check.”

The hoax comes at a contentious time: Finke claims on her site that Deadline boss Jay Penske is trying to shut her down with a restraining order and injunction, but, “My lawyers are confident we’ll knock him out.” Deadline wrote of Finke, “Those who choose to break their news with her will need to be happy with that . . . you’ll find no love here.” Sources say an LA judge will rule on Penske’s request on July 22.