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HFPA Interim Boss Todd Boehly Proposes Reform: Increasing Voters To 300, Shaking Up Press Conference Protocols & Creating New Company
14.04.2022 - 22:57 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: In an effort to get the Golden Globes into a new era; increase and implement its diversity initiatives, as well as its accountability, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Interim CEO Todd Boehly made proposals at a members meeting today that would help propel the org toward that mission.
Boehly’s outline included increasing total voters from 102 to 300 (also adding back Emeritus voters), thus protecting the integrity of the Globes and diversifying the voting base.
In addition, Boehly made it clear that press conferences, often a point of controversy with the HFPA, were not required to win an award. Quite often the reputation of Golden Globe voters was that they received special treatment, gaining immediate access to top talent, and receiving sundry tchotchkes, which would thus increase a contenders’ chances for a nomination. Boehly’s proposal today explicitly sends a clear message to studios and streamers: A press conference is no longer necessary to guarantee a win.
In addition, under Boehly’s new proposal, Eldridge Industries would also form a new company to buy the Golden Globes assets. These would be assessed by an independent valuation, which is currently underway. The proceeds, which would include cash and equity in the new company, would ultimately go to the charitable arm of HFPA and add resources to fund charitable and educational programing consistent with HFPA’s mission. This is all in an effort to have the new company open doors for new career paths and more journalism and revenue generating opportunities, while giving Members flexibility to sell their work to the new company and their existing outlets. The new org would offer members the opportunity to share in its profits, thereby giving them a
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27.04.2022 / 14:01
Katie Price in 'grave danger of going to prison' as she faces trial after denying breach of restraining order
Katie Price is set to face trial after she denied being in breach of a restraining order against her ex-husband’s fiancee over a message in which she accused the pair of having an affair.
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23.04.2022 / 06:25
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Yusef Jackson Take on HFPA Chief Todd Boehly for Self-Dealing in Explosive Letter to Members (Exclusive)
end the HFPA’s non-profit status and essentially buy out the current 102 members, making them profit participants in the lucrative Golden Globes telecast. The intention would be to expand the voting pool by another 200 voters, while not conferring membership status on those new voters, according to TheWrap’s reporting. The letter criticized this to the members as looking to “cozy up and offer to buy you out…for nothing, with a 3-year termination,” a reference to Boehly’s proposal. Jackson and Boone Isaacs are offering an alternative, and reached out to individual HFPA members earlier this week to explain their plan.
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23.04.2022 / 02:53
Former Academy President Reaches Out Directly to HFPA Members Offering ‘Fresh Start’ Alternative to Plan to End Nonprofit Status
Former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs this week reached out directly to members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) offering a plan to partner with her Pacific Coast Entertainment (PCE) to offer a “fresh start” to the group behind the embattled Golden Globes.Isaacs, who steered the movie academy through the #OscarsSoWhite controversy during her 2013-17 tenure, also criticized the “disappointing” lack of response from HFPA president Helen Hoehne and Todd Boehly, the billionaire investor who serves as interim CEO of HFPA. Boehly also owns MRC, the company that produces the Globes telecast and shares in the $60 million licensing fee from NBC for the show.
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21.04.2022 / 20:49
Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton have pledged $13 million each to join a bid for Chelsea Football Club
Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton pledged an estimated £10 million ($13.06 million) each to join a bid for the Chelsea Football Club.According to reports from ESPN, Williams and Hamilton joined former Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton’s bid for the team. Alongside the two superstar athletes, Broughton is also joined by World Athletics president Sebastian Coe and wealthy investors from around the world.A post shared by Lewis Hamilton (@lewishamilton)The outlet also reports private equity veterans Josh Harris and David Blitzer--who own multiple sport teams including the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers--are also backing Broughton’s bid.Serena Williams is already involved in the world of soccer as she is already an investor in Los Angeles’ Angel City FC, which will make its debut in the National Women’s Soccer League later this month.Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly and Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca are also on the shortlist to buy the Premier League club, ESPN reports.Serena Williams opens up about her near-death experience during daughter Olympia’s birthSerena Williams and daughter Olympia look pretty in pink in matching Balmain dressesWill Smith apologizes to Chris Rock after getting violent at the Oscars: 'I am embarrassed'Bids to buy Chelsea Football Club began after the club’s current owner, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, announced he was putting the team up for sale in a statement on last month.
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21.04.2022 / 12:32
Watch Tommy Fury at Tyson Fury undercard press conference live stream today
While Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte held their press conference at Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, the rest of the card will hold their own event with the media on Thursday afternoon. One of the headlining fighters to be on the undercard will be none other than Tyson's younger half-brother, Tommy Fury.
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14.04.2022 / 13:43
Colbert Mocks NYC Mayor’s Botched Brooklyn Shooter Press Conference With Botched Monologue (Video)
no deaths among the injured survivors of Tuesday’s deadly Brooklyn subway shooting, Stephen Colbert was able to find some humor while talking about that attack during Wednesday’s episode of “The Late Show.” And one of the funniest bits came when he poked fun at a weird technical malfunction experienced by NYC Mayor Eric Adams at the press conference announcing the shooting suspect had been arrested.By now you know that the suspect in Tuesday’s mass shooting, a man named Frank James, was arrested on Wednesday. So it is that NYPD held a big press conference bragging about his captured, but the announcement itself was reserved for Adams.