Per Puck News, "For a low-low six figure price, you get “a panel conversation with your contending talent followed by an upscale dining experience with a guest list of 30-40 voters,” according to the pitch deck being forwarded around among the outraged awards marketers. It’s all “in collaboration with the Golden Globes,” meaning that Variety, ostensibly a news organization, is now pimping out its corporate sibling for money—definitely something the trades would cover, if Penske didn’t own them all." Link in comments
by Anxious-Basket
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“Variety is now pimping for the Globes: Remember when the sale of the Golden Globes to Todd Boehly and Jay Penske was supposed to clean up an organization that was so corrupt and tone-deaf that the town’s publicists were compelled to organize a boycott? Welp again!
Penske’s Variety is now pitching studios on “a series of intimate, curated dinners” with—you guessed it—the Association formerly known as the Hollywood Foreign Press. For a low-low six figure price, you get “a panel conversation with your contending talent followed by an upscale dining experience with a guest list of 30-40 voters,” according to the pitch deck being forwarded around among the outraged awards marketers. It’s all “in collaboration with the Golden Globes,” meaning that Variety, ostensibly a news organization, is now pimping out its corporate sibling for money—definitely something the trades would cover, if Penske didn’t own them all.
“Selling access is all part of the New Globes—which, in the name of “reform,” has merely been corporatized. It’s the same semi-corrupt, crass, profiteering enterprise, just supersized and benefitting two super rich guys instead of a group of journalists. Nice work, everyone! Last year, the Globes initiated submission fees, and this year they’re charging a $5,000+ per project “administration fee” to put films and shows on its viewing portal, plus $2,000 per film and $350 per episode of TV as a “submission fee,” plus more for individual submissions. Outlets have been told that if they pay to upload more than 14 titles, they will get preferred display treatment on the viewing portal. The assumption is that the larger companies—Netflix, Disney, etcetera—will pay up, while smaller outlets are ghettoized. Other awards bodies also charge to submit, of course, but guild honors like the SAG Awards ask much less, and that money goes to a performers union, not a for-profit corporation.”
More at: https://puck.news/newsletter_content/what-im-hearing-the-sarandos-soapbox-globes-pimps/
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so much for talent winning the globe
It’s giving Supreme Court
Hasn’t the Golden Globes and HFP always been run on money though. I feel like it’s an open secret that it’s pay to play for the GG (I.e. Emily in Paris nomination)
Just when you think there couldn’t be any less integrity…. This is why I always judge celebrities who are so thirsty and desperate for nominations and wins.
Oh great, they are bringing favoritism and bribery back to the Globes again…sigh.
Oh no not the Golden Globes, they’ve always been a bastion of integrity in Hollywood
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