Golden Globes Ceremony Canceled
Globes ceremony, parties canceled
News conference set to announce winners
And now for something completely different...
The imbroglio over the fate of Sunday
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/103292/Sunday.html?dataSet =
1> 's Golden Globe Awards took comical twists and turns Monday as NBC,
the Hollywood
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/73561/Hollywood.html?dataSe
t=1> Foreign Press Assn., Globes producer Dick
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/71811/Dick.html?dataSet=1 >
Clark Prods. and the WGA desperately tried to cut a deal that would
allow the event and telecast to take place in some form. By the end of
the day, the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards was downscaled from a gala
dinner and presentation ceremony with ritzy afterparties to an hourlong
news conference set for 6 p.m. PT Sunday.
By Monday evening, NBC Universal
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/Company/main/2129474/NBC %20Universal.ht
ml?dataSet=1> , Warner Bros., Weinstein Co., Fox Searchlight and HBO had
scrapped their party plans.
NBC Universal prexy and CEO Jeff Zucker came up with the idea of
announcing the winners in 25 categories at an hourlong news conference
at the Beverly Hilton Hotel that would be covered live under the
auspices of NBC News
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/Company/main/2083175/NBC %20News.html?da
taSet=1> . NBC News scribes are covered under a separate NABET contract
and thus are not on strike against the net. After 72 hours of wrangling
with the HFPA and Dick Clark Prods., a defiant WGA said it would picket
even the downscaled event.
HFPA and Dick Clark Prods. had sought desperately to broker a truce with
the WGA to keep pickets from hitting the streets outside the hotel in
order to allow major stars to trek to the Hilton to attend the parties.
By the time NBC and HFPA settled on the news conference format, the
Peacock was no longer concerned with whether talent showed up for the
parties, or if the WGA picketed the event as it has promised for weeks.
"We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will
not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be
deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's
outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television," HFPA prexy
Jorge
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/74600/Jorge.html?dataSet=1 >
Camara said. "We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's
Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally
scheduled."
By Monday evening, NBC Universal, Warner Bros., Weinstein Co., Fox
Searchlight and HBO had scrapped their party plans.
The threat of pickets prompted a declaration last week by SAG and PR
reps for top stars that virtually all of the town's name-brand thesps
would be a no-show rather than cross a picket line.
HFPA's hope was to salvage some of Sunday's event by having a red-carpet
procession and the traditional Globes parties at the Hilton.
At one point on Monday, insiders said the WGA was OK with the concept of
the hourlong press conference/winners announcement special airing and
agreed to hold its picket-fire. But those close to the situation said
those talks hit a brick wall by midday as reports spread that NBC would
fill out the rest of its Sunday primetime sked with two hours of Globes
retrospective specials from 7-9 p.m. and an "Access Hollywood" spesh at
10 p.m. making the rounds of Globes parties.
Dick Clark Prods. had sought a waiver or interim agreement with the
guild to allow the show to proceed as usual, but the WGA refused. NBC
has been a prime target of the guild's campaign to aggravate the majors
into resuming contract negotiations, which were broken off by the major
congloms on Dec. 7.
The threat of pickets prompted a declaration last week by SAG and PR
reps for top stars that virtually all of the town's name-brand thesps
would be a no-show rather than cross a picket line.
NBC last week leaned on HFPA to postpone the event, but the press org
was adamant about maintaining its traditional mid-January timing in
order to maintain its place in the pre-Academy Awards season.
Under normal circumstances, the Globes kudocast is understood to bring
in about $15 million-$20 million in ad revenue for the Peacock, which
pays the HFPA a roughly $6 million license fee for the rights. This
year, HFPA will forgo that fee, while NBC will sell ad time during the
news conference and is likely to have at least an hour or two of
additional Globe-themed specials.
News conference set to announce winners
And now for something completely different...
The imbroglio over the fate of Sunday
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/103292/Sunday.html?dataSet =
1> 's Golden Globe Awards took comical twists and turns Monday as NBC,
the Hollywood
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/73561/Hollywood.html?dataSe
t=1> Foreign Press Assn., Globes producer Dick
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/71811/Dick.html?dataSet=1 >
Clark Prods. and the WGA desperately tried to cut a deal that would
allow the event and telecast to take place in some form. By the end of
the day, the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards was downscaled from a gala
dinner and presentation ceremony with ritzy afterparties to an hourlong
news conference set for 6 p.m. PT Sunday.
By Monday evening, NBC Universal
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/Company/main/2129474/NBC %20Universal.ht
ml?dataSet=1> , Warner Bros., Weinstein Co., Fox Searchlight and HBO had
scrapped their party plans.
NBC Universal prexy and CEO Jeff Zucker came up with the idea of
announcing the winners in 25 categories at an hourlong news conference
at the Beverly Hilton Hotel that would be covered live under the
auspices of NBC News
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/Company/main/2083175/NBC %20News.html?da
taSet=1> . NBC News scribes are covered under a separate NABET contract
and thus are not on strike against the net. After 72 hours of wrangling
with the HFPA and Dick Clark Prods., a defiant WGA said it would picket
even the downscaled event.
HFPA and Dick Clark Prods. had sought desperately to broker a truce with
the WGA to keep pickets from hitting the streets outside the hotel in
order to allow major stars to trek to the Hilton to attend the parties.
By the time NBC and HFPA settled on the news conference format, the
Peacock was no longer concerned with whether talent showed up for the
parties, or if the WGA picketed the event as it has promised for weeks.
"We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will
not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be
deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's
outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television," HFPA prexy
Jorge
<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/74600/Jorge.html?dataSet=1 >
Camara said. "We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's
Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally
scheduled."
By Monday evening, NBC Universal, Warner Bros., Weinstein Co., Fox
Searchlight and HBO had scrapped their party plans.
The threat of pickets prompted a declaration last week by SAG and PR
reps for top stars that virtually all of the town's name-brand thesps
would be a no-show rather than cross a picket line.
HFPA's hope was to salvage some of Sunday's event by having a red-carpet
procession and the traditional Globes parties at the Hilton.
At one point on Monday, insiders said the WGA was OK with the concept of
the hourlong press conference/winners announcement special airing and
agreed to hold its picket-fire. But those close to the situation said
those talks hit a brick wall by midday as reports spread that NBC would
fill out the rest of its Sunday primetime sked with two hours of Globes
retrospective specials from 7-9 p.m. and an "Access Hollywood" spesh at
10 p.m. making the rounds of Globes parties.
Dick Clark Prods. had sought a waiver or interim agreement with the
guild to allow the show to proceed as usual, but the WGA refused. NBC
has been a prime target of the guild's campaign to aggravate the majors
into resuming contract negotiations, which were broken off by the major
congloms on Dec. 7.
The threat of pickets prompted a declaration last week by SAG and PR
reps for top stars that virtually all of the town's name-brand thesps
would be a no-show rather than cross a picket line.
NBC last week leaned on HFPA to postpone the event, but the press org
was adamant about maintaining its traditional mid-January timing in
order to maintain its place in the pre-Academy Awards season.
Under normal circumstances, the Globes kudocast is understood to bring
in about $15 million-$20 million in ad revenue for the Peacock, which
pays the HFPA a roughly $6 million license fee for the rights. This
year, HFPA will forgo that fee, while NBC will sell ad time during the
news conference and is likely to have at least an hour or two of
additional Globe-themed specials.
