Golden Globes CANCELADOS!!!
Golden Globes Ceremony, Parties Canceled
Attempts to save the Golden Globes ceremonies devolved quickly Monday evening as the famed broadcast was reduced from a three-hour gala to a one-hour press conference -- most likely with no stars, no parties and WGA pickets. A complicated story continued to unfold late into the evening yesterday as NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions desperately tried to keep the Golden Globes broadcast afloat in the wake of the two-and-a-half-month strike by the Writers Guild of America. After extensive negotiations, NBC came up with a plan to shorten Sunday's ceremony to a one-hour news special (circumventing the WGA strike, which does not affect NBC News), in hopes that it could utilize red carpet and after-party footage to supplement the evening's coverage both before and after the announcement of the awards. Thus, the network and the Globes could save millions of dollars in advertising revenue and lure numerous celebrities and nominees, especially in light of a recent statement released by the Screen Actors Guild that none of the 70+ acting nominees would attend the ceremony if it went forward as originally planned.
Though the WGA initially agreed not to picket the press conference format, negotiations quickly broke down over NBC's suggestions for additional news coverage of the awards that would include nominee interviews, clips from nominated films, and coverage of the Golden Globes studio-sponsored parties. While the news conference is expected to go on as planned, airing Sunday night at 9pm ET, NBC's other programming was still in question, and more crucially, many of the large-scale parties were canceled as news broke throughout Hollywood. NBC Universal, Warner Bros. and HBO officially cancled their parties, and according to Variety it was expected that Fox Searchlight and the Weinstein Company would follow suit -- thus insuring few if any celebrities would be in attendance of any kind for the Golden Globes. Adding insult to injury, the Writers Guild may still picket the Globes news conference, with the Screen Actors Guild expected to show support by encouraging members not to attend. An official statement from the WGA was not available at press time.
NOOOO!!!!! Y ahora, kien podra salvarnos? :'(
Attempts to save the Golden Globes ceremonies devolved quickly Monday evening as the famed broadcast was reduced from a three-hour gala to a one-hour press conference -- most likely with no stars, no parties and WGA pickets. A complicated story continued to unfold late into the evening yesterday as NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions desperately tried to keep the Golden Globes broadcast afloat in the wake of the two-and-a-half-month strike by the Writers Guild of America. After extensive negotiations, NBC came up with a plan to shorten Sunday's ceremony to a one-hour news special (circumventing the WGA strike, which does not affect NBC News), in hopes that it could utilize red carpet and after-party footage to supplement the evening's coverage both before and after the announcement of the awards. Thus, the network and the Globes could save millions of dollars in advertising revenue and lure numerous celebrities and nominees, especially in light of a recent statement released by the Screen Actors Guild that none of the 70+ acting nominees would attend the ceremony if it went forward as originally planned.
Though the WGA initially agreed not to picket the press conference format, negotiations quickly broke down over NBC's suggestions for additional news coverage of the awards that would include nominee interviews, clips from nominated films, and coverage of the Golden Globes studio-sponsored parties. While the news conference is expected to go on as planned, airing Sunday night at 9pm ET, NBC's other programming was still in question, and more crucially, many of the large-scale parties were canceled as news broke throughout Hollywood. NBC Universal, Warner Bros. and HBO officially cancled their parties, and according to Variety it was expected that Fox Searchlight and the Weinstein Company would follow suit -- thus insuring few if any celebrities would be in attendance of any kind for the Golden Globes. Adding insult to injury, the Writers Guild may still picket the Globes news conference, with the Screen Actors Guild expected to show support by encouraging members not to attend. An official statement from the WGA was not available at press time.
NOOOO!!!!! Y ahora, kien podra salvarnos? :'(
posted by Alex B at 12:29 AM
1 Comments:
Pues yo si queria Globes, los nominados primerizos son los que me dan un poco de lastima. Como la chava de Hairspray que cuando escucho su nombre en las nominaciones casi se muere junto a su familia. Dicen que la protesta se acabara hasta Junio, sera cierto?
Un saludo!
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