Two Golden Globes Voters Resign From Embattled HFPA

Konami has sacked Barcelona striker Antoine Griezmann as a brand ambassador less than a month after signing the footballer to represent the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise.As reported in South China Morning Post, the decision came following the emergence of controversial videos of the French footballer and his team mate Ousmane Dembele from a club tour to Japan in 2019.In the video, Griezmann and Dembele, who both played for France in Euro 2020, are shown appearing to mock Asian workers fixing a television

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PC Gamer notes, China has been looking to stamp out cryptocurrency mining in regions with low energy costs – “such as Sichuan, Yunnan and Inner Mongolia” – due to rampant resources being consumed by crypto mining.As visible on Etherscan, hash rates on the ethereum network have fallen since May 20, just two days after China announced that payment companies and financial institutions could not provide any services related to cryptocurrency (Reuters).Due to the decreased GPU power, it was taking

HFPA hired new diversity, equity and inclusion consultants and two independent law firms, and earlier that month they issued a “reimagination” of the organization, pledging to increase membership by 50%, hold new board elections and hire professional executive leadership. However, many of these reforms were slammed by organizations like Time’s Up and GLAAD for not going far enough.

Antonio Ferme editorIn yet another move seemingly engineered to boost the visibility of the Critics Choice Awards and position it as an alternative to the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Association will introduce the World Movie Awards in 2022, which will be guided by a new branch of international members.

Clayton Davis The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced new eligibility guidelines for future Golden Globe Award shows, despite NBC announcing the cancellation of the annual telecast in 2022.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Wednesday that it has amended its eligibility guidelines for “future” Golden Globe Award shows and events, including one that will allow foreign-language films as well as animated films to compete in its Best Motion Picture categories.

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Emmy voters may give an involuntary shudder while poring over potential nominees in the documentary categories. They abound with tales of mass murderers and eldritch crime: John Wayne Gacy, the Manson Family, the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, the Australian serial killer known as the Night Caller, and the Golden State Killer.

Céline Dion would never turn her back on Quebec.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSamuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to “American Sausage Standoff” (“Gutterbee”), a comedy by Danish actor-turned-filmmaker Ulrich Thomsen who stars in “Banshee.” The movie is represented by REinvent International Sales.

Golden Globes, have resigned in protest at the organisation.Wenting Xu and Diederik van Hoogstraten said in a letter (obtained by the LA Times) that the HFPA was “toxic”, which comes after an exposé earlier this year alleged corruption and lack of diversity in the association.In their reasoning, the two claimed that the “majority of the membership resists deep change” and that new rules aimed at improving diversity had been “watered down to meet the demands of a majority of the current Board and

“A toxic place for working journalists,” is how two members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association described the group as they announced Thursday that they were leaving the group. They claim the majority of the Golden Globes organization’s members are resistant to efforts to improve diversity and ethical standards.

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions have acquired North American rights to writer/director Evan Jackson Leong’s Snakehead.

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales company Parkland Pictures has picked up worldwide sales rights to feature documentary Never Forget Tibet about the Dalai Lama.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is calling for NBCUniversal to urge the International Olympic Committee relocate the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing, citing the Chinese government’s human rights abuses.

On Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight”, John Oliver brought to light the little-known story of the Chinese survivors of the Titanic tragedy.