Golden Globes will happen on January 7 subsequent 12 months.(courtesy: goldenglobes)
The scandal-hit affiliation of overseas journalists that created the Golden Globes might be wound down because the Hollywood award present is formally bought by non-public buyers together with US billionaire Todd Boehly, it was introduced Monday. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association – a bunch of round 100 entertainment writers with hyperlinks to abroad publications – has handed out the Globes to A-list movie and tv stars for the previous eight a long time.
But allegations of corruption, racism and amateurism led to an industry-wide boycott final 12 months of each the Globes and the HFPA, and requires a wholesale reform of the awards.
“Today marks a major milestone within the evolution of the Golden Globes,” mentioned Boehly, whose funding agency Eldridge partnered with Penske Media Corporation to drive by way of the deal.
The takeover “will outcome within the wind down of the HFPA and its membership,” mentioned a joint assertion.
No timeline was given for the dissolution of the HFPA. Under plans beforehand introduced by Boehly, present HFPA members might be provided salaried positions operating the brand new for-profit Globes.
The nonmember voting physique for the Golden Globes has already been expanded and diversified past the group lately. A mix of HFPA members and entertainment writers exterior of the HFPA presently select the winners.
Once the HFPA is wound down, its assets might be spun off to create a separate non-profit targeted on entertainment-related charity work.
This will embody at the very least $44 million of the $48 million the HFPA will obtain from the Globes sale, in response to a letter from California’s legal professional normal seen by AFP.
The Golden Globes had been initially arrange by Los Angeles-based overseas correspondents masking the entertainment industry within the Nineteen Forties.
By the Nineteen Nineties its organizers wielded immense energy in Hollywood on account of profitable tv offers for broadcasting the star-studded ceremony.
But in 2021, a Los Angeles Times expose revealed the HFPA had no Black members. The following 12 months’s present was taken off the air by US community NBC.
Following reforms, the ceremony returned to the airwaves this January, however scores plummeted to a report low 6.3 million viewers and a number of other distinguished winners didn’t attend.
No tv deal is presently in place for subsequent 12 months’s Globes, that are set to happen on January 7. American businessman Boehly can also be chairman of Premier League soccer membership Chelsea.
His holding firm Eldridge owns Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Golden Globes telecast, and a part of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which hosts the ceremony.
It can also be a minority proprietor of a number of Hollywood commerce publications, together with The Hollywood Reporter, and indie movie studio A24, behind latest award-winning movies similar to Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale.
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