2023-06-15 08:32:15
Dick Clark Productions will buy the Golden Globes from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, at the heart of many scandals.
The Golden Globes will soon change ownership. Dick Clark Productions buys the ceremony and all its assets from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), accused of many questionable acts.
This acquisition will transition the Globes from a not-for-profit to a commercial enterprise. Founded in 1943, the HFPA is made up of journalists who cover Hollywood and the entertainment industry for non-US media.
Dick Clark Productions (owned by the parent company of Rolling Stone, Penske Media Corporation, in partnership with The Eldridge Company) will resume the Golden Globes in time for next year’s show, which is scheduled to air on January 7, 2024. It is not yet known how the nominees and winners will be chosen. ; both of these tasks were previously performed by members of the HFPA (which, of course, led to numerous allegations of questionable transactions).
This sale caps a tumultuous few years for the Golden Globes, even if, in reality, these are surrounded by scandals for decades. Accusations of vote-rigging and corruption have long plagued the HFPA and its members, with a former publicist even suing the organization in 2011 over an alleged kickback scheme (the complaint was settled in 2013).
Perhaps the most famous allegation of wrongdoing involves Brendan Fraser, who claimed that former HFPA president Philip Berk molested him at an event in 2003. Although the incident has was known at the time (the New York Times reported in 2005 that Berk had sent an apology to Fraser) it received renewed attention when Fraser wrote regarding it in an article by GQ in 2018. A subsequent investigation by the HFPA concluded that “ Berk touched Mr. Fraser inappropriately “, more than ” evidence shows it was a joke and not a sexual advance “. Still, the actor opted out of attending this year’s Golden Globes, despite being nominated for his performance in The Whale (he eventually lost to Austin Butler).
As for Berk, he was expelled from the HFPA in 2021 for sending an email to its members in which he quoted an article calling Black Lives Matter a “ racist hate movement “. These facts came to light shortly following a damning investigation by the Los Angeles Times on the HFPA’s lack of diversity, including the fact that it had no black voting members until that year. The outcry prompted NBC cut the Golden Globes broadcast for a year, and Tom Cruise even returned three of his trophies.
Jon Blistein
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