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The Golden Globe Awards have been bought to a brand new proprietor that can shut down the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation, the voting group that confronted controversy over moral lapses and an absence of range.
Eldridge Industries bought the Golden Globe belongings with Dick Clark Productions (DCP), which can proceed to handle the awards telecast and deal with increasing the Globes’ viewership world wide, a press launch mentioned. DCP is co-owned by Eldridge and Penske Media.
The sale comes after the HFPA struggled to restore its popularity after a Hollywood backlash over its ethics and lack of range, which led US tv community NBC to drop the Golden Globes ceremony in 2022.
A Los Angeles Occasions investigation in 2021 revealed the organisation had no Black journalists in its ranks. Some members have been accused of creating sexist and racist remarks and soliciting favours from celebrities and film studios.
The HFPA responded by increasing and diversifying its membership and instituted new ethics insurance policies.
Eldridge Industries Chairman Todd Boehly goals to reshape the HFPA, a nonprofit organisation of worldwide leisure reporters, into employed staff in a for-profit enterprise. All the 310 present voters can be eligible to forged ballots for the following ceremony in January 2024, a spokesperson mentioned.
“At the moment marks a big milestone within the evolution of the Golden Globes,” Boehly mentioned in an announcement.
NBC aired the Globes once more in 2023. No community has but signed as much as run the 2024 ceremony.
Monetary phrases of the deal, which was permitted by California’s attorney-general, weren’t disclosed.
– AAP