On Sunday, Hollywood placed on an enormous present about not placing on an enormous present.
The Golden Globe Awards had been held — form of — on the Beverly Hilton resort as standard, however due to COVID and a variety controversy they had been not televised on NBC and there was no viewers, pink carpet or star presenters.
In reality, there was no potential technique to watch the present honoring the very best of what we’ve watched all 12 months.
What’s all of the fuss about? Final February, a damning report within the Los Angeles Occasions revealed that the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation, the tiny group that votes for the prizes, had no black members.
Outrage ensued (innocent awards reveals have annoyingly turn into dependable lightning rods for for scandal and anger) and NBC axed the 2022 version.
The issue has since been remedied: The HFPA added 21 various journalists to their ranks, together with six black voters, and cast a partnership with the NAACP.
The Peacock shrugged. This system nonetheless wasn’t broadcast and celebrities by and huge ignored their nominations. Normally chirpy self-absorbed social media accounts of stars had been conspicuously silent. And in Selection, the place films and TV reveals take out full-page “For Your Consideration” adverts throughout awards season, contenders have been championing their Critics Selection Award nods as a substitute.
The Globes — a foolish present the place A-listers get drunk whereas Ricky Gervais insults them — have turn into Hollywood’s No. 1 Pariah.
What a crock.
Let’s be actual — NBC’s resolution to not broadcast the Globes doesn't elect them as pope. If the awards present was an enormous money-making enterprise with boffo rankings and unparalleled publicity for stars, Hollywood would’ve been a lot faster to forgive the HFPA.
However Tinseltown is stuffed with hypocrites.
Take the upcoming film “Dying on the Nile,” starring Armie Hammer. The actor is presently underneath police investigation for sexually assaulting a lady and, in keeping with the alleged sufferer, abusing her “mentally, emotionally and sexually.” His new movie is a month away from heading to theaters on Feb. 11, and no one appears to care.
(Hammer denies the allegations.)
Disney and twentieth Century Studios didn’t trouble reshooting Hammer’s scenes for the film a la Kevin Spacey in “All of the Cash within the World.” He’s displayed prominently on the poster and the movie’s varied delays had been largely as a result of COVID — not saintliness.
That collective “meh” is as a result of Disney and twentieth Century Studios know this film will most likely make them some huge cash. Kenneth Branagh’s final Agatha Christie movie, “Homicide on the Orient Specific,” raked in $352 million worldwide on a $55 million price range. We couldn’t presumably cancel that!
Nor am I saying they need to, however virtue-signaling Hollywood’s selective outrage is so pathetically clear, NBC nixed the Globes as a result of it was simple.
The printed has had rankings declines for years. Final 12 months’s version was seen by simply 6.9 million viewers — the Globes’ worst numbers because the ceremony was aired on TBS within the ‘90s. All awards reveals are taking their closing dying breaths.
The HFPA membership controversy gave NBC a straightforward out for a 12 months of a logistically difficult, money-losing endeavor. What do you do when the boyfriend you’ve began to hate anyway crashes your automobile? You break up with him.
NBC is contracted to air the Golden Globes until 2026 for $60 million a 12 months, however you possibly can wager that a devoted lawyer is spending many a sleepless night time making an attempt to tear that previous settlement to shreds. In the meantime, Disney’s determining the best way to take advantage of cash from “Dying on the Nile.”
That’s the best way it goes in screwy ballyhooey Hollywood.
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