Confirmed: The 65th Golden Globes Are Cancelled

[bluedolphin]

NO ,JUST NO, i want to see many amazing dresses!!

 

[masquerade]

The writers/studios aren't thinking of the crew members either...they get paid peanuts and are out of the job. They're are being very self-indulgent taking all this time...

the writers are open to negotiations but the AMPTP won't even sit down with them.

 

[liberty33r1b]

The NY Times did an article on how the fashion industry will be affected since there will be no red carpets.

could you please post a link? i didn't find it... thanks.

 

[masquerade]

i think people should remember that during award season there are ton and tons of parties that celebs get all dressed up for in addition to the actual events. maybe instead of going to the globes, the stars will go to a big party and we will still see them dressed up

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^^What would the point be then? I think they should cancel them this year and get it over with!I think writers deserve what they are asking for,and in the end that is more important.

 

[Label Basher]

Do you know what is pissing me off is the FACT that NO ONE has even mentioned the word POSTPONE. It is the best solution until the strike is over and yet this at present is not an option.

There is nothing wrong with having the awards in say April or May. For example –

April 6 = GLOBES
April 13 = SAGS
April 20 = BAFTAS (this is not really affected but should wait and screen with the others).
April 27 = OSCARS

The viewing public, nominees and celebs are not going anywhere.

To quote from Wayne's World - If you book them, they will come.

 

[wrngco]

The strike will not be over until June as that is when the actor's contracts are going to expire at that point the producers/ studios will deal with the writers to that's my two cents

 

[LUXXX]

Do you know what is pissing me off is the FACT that NO ONE has even mentioned the word POSTPONE. It is the best solution until the strike is over and yet this at present is not an option.

There is nothing wrong with having the awards in say April or May. For example –

April 6 = GLOBES
April 13 = SAGS
April 20 = BAFTAS (this is not really affected but should wait and screen with the others).
April 27 = OSCARS

The viewing public, nominees and celebs are not going anywhere.

To quote from Wayne's World - If you book them, they will come.

true...actors want those awards...they'll wait and then get pissed. And then settlements will happen...

 

[superbeautiful]

Are they still showing up at the critics choice awards on monday?

 

[Ferdinanda]

Damn.

 

[MonkeyFish]

Are they still showing up at the critics choice awards on monday?

I think so. They turned up to the new yorks critics awards last night.

 

[LUXXX]

Are they still showing up at the critics choice awards on monday?

Not if it is televised...

 

[MissMagAddict]

could you please post a link? i didn't find it... thanks.

Source | The New York Times | by Cathy Horyn |January 4, 2008

Red Carpet Crawl

I’ve just returned from the living room with a copy of “Happy Times,” the photo collection of gods and goddesses by Jerome Zerbe and Brendan Gill. I wanted to see, or to imagine, what the Golden Globes will look like without television cameras, scripted gags and, perhaps, the red-carpet parade of dresses. In other words, if the Globes are to go on as a closed event, without a telecast (which could well be the only alternative at this stage), will the atmosphere resemble the days when Hollywood seemed spectacularly intimate, its gods and goddesses even more remote and unearthly?

Perhaps so. Will Keira Knightley, the star of “Atonement,” who has requested a dress from Chanel, look even more glamorous if she wears something simple to the Globes ceremony and then changes for a private party? How will the actresses feel if they are dressing for a few and not a multitude, not for Joan Rivers and the pages of the “Star”? Or will there be a red-carpet waltz after all?

NBC plans to air the Globes on Jan. 13, and the Writers Guild has said it will picket the ceremony. Actors and actresses aren’t going to cross the picket line—that’s clear. The other option being discussed is for the guild to agree not to picket the event, thus allowing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (and Dick Clark Productions) to go on with its presentation. A well-connected movie producer told me today that’s going to be the scenario, with media coverage of the red carpet. But how weird: The actresses will get dressed up, arrive in their limos, and presumably talk to print journalists and foreign broadcasters, and then disappear into the Hilton. Whatever the scenario—and things are still in flux—the mood is certain to affect how actors and actresses will dress.

I checked in with a few houses—Dior, Chanel and Armani—and they say, for now, everything is on hold. “We’re still having fittings next week,” a Dior spokesman in Paris said, adding that houses which have relationships with actresses and stylists can’t exactly hedge their bets about the Globes and consider their publicity pay-off. Fashion houses get tons of free publicity from shows like the Globes and Oscars; the year that Julia Roberts wore a vintage Valentino dress to the Oscars, the Roman house estimated that the media coverage for all its red-carpet stars that night was worth $25 million. “Of course we’re dressing celebrities for the editorial coverage,” the Dior spokesman said, “but we’re also dressing the celebrities for themselves.” Well, they can’t go naked into the night.

“I’ve worked in this business 20 years and it’s the first time we’ve had a closet full of hold tags,” Wanda McDaniel told me yesterday. McDaniel works in Los Angeles for Giorgio Armani. She said, “It’s not ‘business as usual,’ that’s for sure. We have dresses going out and it’s all a maybe.” Armani has made a custom dress for nominee Cate Blanchett, who is pregnant.

McDaniel’s opinion is that the strike has been so devastating to people in the industry (and to those with related businesses) that even if there is a closed awards show and no strike line, celebrities won’t be inclined to dress up. “It’s not a time to put on the pailletes,” she said.

Actresses are typically choosy about their dresses, leaving designers in the dark until the last minute. There may be a lot of extra scrambling next week. “We’re just going ahead as usual,” said Georgina Chapman, who with Keren Craig designs Marchesa, adding that dresses have been sent out to stylists and their clients. “We don’t know what peoples’ reactions are going to be until the day of the event.”

Let there be no mistake that frou-frou is big business. But I found it particularly interesting when a publicist friend of mine in Hollywood said that writers she knows are concerned that a prolonged strike will cause viewers to lose interest in some television shows and that it may be difficult to get them back. With peoples’ attention grabbed by so many forms of entertainment, this is also an issue for the fashion world. Why do you think designers bang the drum so hard these days?

Source | The New York Times | by Cathy Horyn | January 5, 2008

More Confusion for Frockmakers

So it appears that none of the nominees or presenters for the Golden Globes will have to worry about what to wear on Jan. 13. Alan Rosenberg, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, said members would not cross the picket line to attend the awards event, at the Beverly Hilton. There had been some thought, or hope, that the ceremony would go on, without being televised, and we could at least see the peacock display and the nominees could have their moment. But of course that would mean a tremendous loss of revenue. Anyway, it looks like Wanda McDaniel of Armani was on the money when she characterized the appointments she has scheduled with actresses for this weekend as “faux fittings.” Fashion houses and stylists are going through the motions. But what choice do they have? Come tomorrow or Monday, it could be a different story. The SAG statement, on the face of it, was pretty blunt. The next move seems to belong to NBC. Meanwhile, designers are facing deadlines of their own: the Paris couture starts in two weeks, and the N.Y. shows on Feb. 1.

 

[tiffany]

I'm not angry at the writers (who I think are right) I'm angry at the studios for not giving in to their demands - the strike will go on forever at this rate I hope they postpone the awards instead of cancelling them

 

[novella]

NBC set to pull the plug on Globes telecast?

NBC set to pull the plug on Globes telecast?
Source says network likely to make announcement this week

NEW YORK - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC engaged in 11th-hour sessions Sunday to try to save the boycott-stricken Golden Globes, but the network apparently is poised to pull the telecast as a result of the Hollywood writers strike.

A source close to NBC told msnbc.com that the network has already made its decision to pull the Golden Globes telecast, and to expect an announcement confirming the telecast cancellation on Tuesday or Wednesday.

“NBC feels that it’s better to have an awards show with no one watching than have a show where no one shows up,” the source told msnbc.com. “They decided this over the weekend, despite saying that they’re still negotiating. Now, what hasn’t been decided is what they’re going to do with all that airtime, and that’s why they haven’t made an announcement yet.”

The HFPA, whose 100-odd members organize the ceremony, is pushing NBC to pull the plug on the broadcast because that will prompt the Writers Guild of America to lift its pickets and enable stars to attend the January 13 event. On Friday, the Screen Actors Guild said its members would not cross picket lines to attend.

NBC and its chief Jeff Zucker had through the weekend maintained that it will broadcast the event. But one person with knowledge of the situation described NBC as trying to find ”a middle ground,” potentially including a scaled-back event or a postponement. As of late Sunday, NBC was said to be close to yielding to the HFPA’s request for the Globes to be taken off the air.

Were a postponement agreed upon, the Globes would likely have to occur before Oscar nominations are announced on January 22, which buy only a week or two, a very small amount of time for an interim agreement or larger strike resolution to take place. The Beverly Hilton may also not be available for the following Sunday, January 20.

It’s unclear how much contractual wiggle room NBC would have if it sought a postponement that the HFPA didn’t want.

As of Sunday night, Dick Clark Productions, which produces and co-owns the Globes, was readying for preproduction in the way it would for any awards broadcast that’s one week away. It’s unclear what its involvement would be if the Globes were to go on without a telecast.

The weekend conferrals between the HFPA and NBC come after a Friday in which the guilds essentially shut the door on star attendance for an NBC-aired show.

With NBC continuing to say it will broadcast the event, SAG said that conversations with members had resulted in the collective decision not to cross the picket line.

“After considerable outreach to Golden Globe actor nominees and their representatives over the past several weeks, there appears to be unanimous agreement that these actors will not cross WGA picket lines to appear on the Golden Globe Awards as acceptors or presenters,” SAG president Alan Rosenberg said.

Also on Friday, a number of prominent talent-publicity firms, including BWR, 42 West and Stanley Rosenfield, announced that their clients would be no-shows.

“After much discussion by our clients, we have concluded unanimously that the actors we represent will not cross the picket line out of respect for the WGA membership. Our clients are extremely grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press and would love the opportunity to be recognized for their work but will only do so in the event that NBC and Dick Clark Productions reach an interim agreement with the WGA for the Golden Globes,” the group said.

Meanwhile, Dick Clark Productions, which has said that it has offered terms to the WGA similar to those that Worldwide Pants negotiated, also jumped into the fray. It released a statement saying that it “has reached out to the WGA on numerous occasions, from the very beginning of the WGA strike, and offered to enter into an interim agreement similar to the agreement reached by Worldwide Pants” and was “disappointed that the WGA has refused to bargain with us in good faith.” It also noted that it was not a member of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television and Producers, the studios’ bargaining ram.

As much as I love awards season/the entertainment industry, I think that this is a wonderful sign of solidarity and I support the actors' decision to snub it. As a writer and aspiring entertainment industry professional, I have to say that the fact that this strike has been going on for so long is a huge slap in the face for the writers! It's a shame that their demands aren't that important to the studios.

(source: MSNBC)

 

[eternitygoddess]

^I don't think it's their decision. They haven't any choice.

 

[novella]

^ SAG [or the president of SAG in this case] is supporting the "little people" and the majority of the actors are respecting that decision. That sounds like a choice to me.

 

[LUXXX]

It's completely cancelled...it's not happening this year...crap

 

[novella]

NBC And Hollywood Foreign Press Cancel Televised Golden Globes Hoopla; Show Will Be Scrapped In Favor Of Stripped Down News Event

The Hollywood writers strike can now claim its first awards show casualty. I'm hearing from my sources that NBC will not be broadcasting a big Golden Globes show as planned for January 13th. Nor will a much ballyhooed unbroadcasted event be held, either. Instead, a stripped down announcements telecast will be aired by NBC News. It will consist of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handing out Golden Globes to the winners, who will then pick up the awards and pass through a press room for photos and interviews. "It'll now be a news event where the actors can still get all glammed up," a source told I've not yet received any official confirmation of any of this. But insiders tell me that NBC Universal topper Jeff Zucker and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association which bestows the Golden Globes made the decision together to scale everything back.

( source )

 

[MonkeyFish]

A stripped down news event?? That is just ludricous.