Golden Globes will happen on January 7 subsequent yr.(courtesy: goldenglobes)
The scandal-hit affiliation of overseas journalists that created the Golden Globes can be wound down because the Hollywood award present is formally bought by personal traders together with US billionaire Todd Boehly, it was introduced Monday. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association – a bunch of round 100 leisure 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 yr of each the Globes and the HFPA, and requires a wholesale reform of the awards.
“Today marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Golden Globes,” stated Boehly, whose funding agency Eldridge partnered with Penske Media Corporation to drive by way of the deal.
The takeover “will result in the wind down of the HFPA and its membership,” stated a joint assertion.
No timeline was given for the dissolution of the HFPA. Under plans beforehand introduced by Boehly, present HFPA members can be supplied salaried positions working the brand new for-profit Globes.
The nonmember voting physique for the Golden Globes has already been expanded and diversified past the group in recent times. A mix of HFPA members and leisure writers outdoors of the HFPA presently select the winners.
Once the HFPA is wound down, its assets can be spun off to create a separate non-profit targeted on entertainment-related charity work.
This will embody not less than $44 million of the $48 million the HFPA will obtain from the Globes sale, in response to a letter from California’s lawyer normal seen by AFP.
The Golden Globes had been initially arrange by Los Angeles-based overseas correspondents overlaying the leisure {industry} within the Forties.
By the Nineties its organizers wielded immense energy in Hollywood as a result 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 yr’s present was taken off the air by US community NBC.
Following reforms, the ceremony returned to the airwaves this January, however rankings plummeted to a file low 6.3 million viewers and a number of other outstanding winners didn’t attend.
No tv deal is presently in place for subsequent yr’s Globes, that are set to happen on January 7. American businessman Boehly can 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 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 corresponding to Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale.
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