| NEWS 10.27.09 11:14 AM |
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Ricky Gervais to Host the Golden Globes, the Telecast's First Since 1995
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Golden Globe and Emmy winner Ricky Gervais will host the 67th annual Golden Globe awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Dick Clark Productions, and NBC announced on Monday. The show will be broadcast live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 17, 2010.
The choice marks the first time the telecast has had a host since 1995. “Not only is this the biggest Hollywood celebration of the industry which includes both film and TV, but also an environment where I feel I can get free rein as a host. I have resisted many other offers like this, but there are just some things you don't turn down,” Gervais said in the announcement.
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| NEWS 08.26.09 3:48 PM |
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New Donors Allow Lacma to Extend Weekend Film Programming
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced today gifts that will allow the museum to extend continuous film programming through next summer: The gifts are in the amount of $75,000 each from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Time Warner Cable in partnership with Ovation TV. Also, Time Warner Cable and Ovation TV have contributed more than $1.5 million to market the program. The donations come after the museum’s decision to suspend the weekend portion of the program as part of restructuring needed to address its lack of donor support and shrinking audiences, and the desire to rebuild a larger, sustainable film department.
“In a tight budget year when many programs were reduced, we suspended the weekend film series in order to rebuild its foundations. We’ve been incredibly impressed by the public outcry of support for film at Lacma, and thrilled that just a few weeks later, the first new sponsors have stepped forward," Lacma director Michael Govan said in a release. "We’re grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Time Warner Cable, and Ovation TV for expressing their tangible support for the art of film at Lacma, and we’re very pleased that we can keep film rolling while we build for the future."
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.16.09 8:00 AM |
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Southern California's Top Entertainment & Media Events 2009
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 | SAG Awards
Photo: James Sequenzia |
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1. Academy Awards
In a town cluttered with award shows, the Oscars always end up at the top of the heap, unrivaled for glitter, buzz, and packed after-parties. The 2009 event—the 81st annual—will hit the Kodak Theater on February 22 and will be broad-cast live on ABC.
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Southern California's Top 100 Events, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Recording Academy, Screen Actors Guild, Film Independent, Environmental Media Association, American Film Institute, Women in Film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Glaad, N.A.A.C.P., BET |
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| NEWS 01.12.09 1:21 PM |
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What the Press Said About the Golden Globes: Tolerable and Painless
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It’s been two years since we last had a traditional, televised Golden Globe ceremony, due to last year’s writers strike, which derailed the annual award show and turned it into a glorified press conference absent of any sort of celebrity or pomp. In the time since its last official iteration, critics and audiences seem to have gotten less and less patient with award shows, so the pressure was on for the Globes not to further the mounting alienation.
And it really didn’t. Critics seemed more or less unbothered by the three-hour show, acknowledging that the ceremony doesn’t try as hard as other award shows to cater to the audience at home. The Los Angeles Times award blog, the Envelope, noted this in detail: “No host, no opening monologue, no breakaway skits, no musical numbers, no huge, evocative, and ever-changing stage—the Golden Globes is a televised awards presentation that relies totally on the apparently worldwide desire to see movie and television stars wearing fancy clothes, making a few jokes, saying nice things about each other, and occasionally breaking down in tears.”
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| NEWS 01.09.09 4:50 PM |
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After a Hiatus, Dinner Party-Style Globes Might Exceed Pre-Strike Pageantry
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Last year's Golden Globes press conference hardly packed the glamour—or the production opulence—of an awards ceremony in a typical year. But, after having dodged another strike threat, Sunday's show at the International Ballroom in the Beverly Hilton is expected to return in full force, and potentially exceed the glitz and spectacle of previous years.
For one thing, there's the slate of top-tier star nominees. But also the break itself might have done the program some good, Gil Cates, who has produced 14 Oscar telecasts, suggested to Variety: "The opportunity to leave what you're doing and watch it from a distance and then come back is helpful. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
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| NEWS 12.11.08 12:29 PM |
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SAG Strike-Vote Timing Will Spare Globes Ceremony (but Oscars Beware)
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Earlier this week, Golden Globes party organizers told BizBash they are going forward with preparations undaunted by the possibility of a Screen Actors' Guild strike—and as of yesterday their work can officially proceed as planned. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's January 11 Golden Globes ceremony will now be spared by the timing of SAG's strike-authorization vote, The Hollywood Reporter reported. SAG leadership will send ballots to members on January 2, and Washington state-based Integrity Voting Systems will tabulate them on January 23—which leaves the February 22 Oscars vulnerable.
At least 75 percent of the votes must be yes for the measure to pass. With the SAG Awards set to air January 25, a quick vote count would allow the leadership to use the event as a public forum. —Alesandra Dubin
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| EVENT REPORT 09.10.08 5:20 PM |
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In Style's TIFF Party Gets Pink Orchids, Crystals
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 | The In Style party at the Windsor Arms Hotel
Photo: BizBash |
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FROM TORONTO
In Style magazine and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association welcomed more than 400 guests to their annual TIFF party at the Windsor Arms Hotel Tuesday. The magazine has hosted a cocktail party during the festival since 2000, and Kelly Austing, In Style's manager of creative development, said the idea is not to switch things up too much.
"We do our party every year on the same night. It's always on the Tuesday," said Austing, who's based in L.A. "It's always great to see who's in town to come to our party." The magazine also always hosts the event at the hotel. "The Windsor Arms just is a great representation of Toronto. It's a great representation of In Style, and it works perfectly for the Hollywood Foreign Press. It's an intimate, warm venue with great food and great ambience."
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| FRESH FACE 08.13.08 12:00 PM |
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Cake Monkey Specializes in Mini, Retro Desserts
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 | Cake Monkey's Elizabeth Belkind (left) and Lisa Olin.
Photo: Zen Sekizawa for BizBash |
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Internet Connection: A love of cake and a Craigslist posting brought business partners Elizabeth Belkind and Lisa Olin together. Olin, a film and television producer with a sweet tooth, wanted to open a bakery specializing in individual layer cakes and her favorite childhood treats. With the concept, logo, and bakery name selected, all she needed was a qualified baker. Enter Belkind, a Campanile-trained pastry chef and designer of the dessert menu at contemporary American restaurant Grace. “Because I was familiar with [Belkind’s] background, I knew I wanted her before I even spoke with her,” Olin says. “But then when we met, it was all the better, because we had the same ideas when it came to cakes, like what ingredients and flavors to use.” With their interests in sync, last December the pair launched Cake Monkey Bakery.
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Mango, In Style Magazine, Elle, Des Kohan, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Paramount |
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 7:29 PM |
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Southern California's Top Entertainment Industry Events 2008
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 | The Environmental Media Awards
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1. Academy Awards
The most ballyhooed shindig of the entertainment year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences’ Oscars take place at the Kodak Theatre. Vanity Fair generally has a lock on the most coveted after-party, but the magazine canceled its 2008 event in the wake of the Writers Guild strike, leaving Elton John's AIDS fund-raiser as this year's most high-profile Oscar bash. Sequoia Productions is the longtime producer of the academy’s official Governors Ball. The 80th annual show was held on February 24.
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Southern California's Top 100 Events, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, DirecTV, People Magazine, ET, Recording Academy, Warner Brothers, Sony, Film Independent, Screen Actors Guild, American Film Institute, Environmental Media Association, Toyota, Goldenvoice, Women in Film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, American Cinematheque, The Los Angeles Times, Glaad, N.A.A.C.P., Starz, BET |
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| NEWS 01.07.08 6:19 PM |
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Planners on Hold Ahead of Today's Expected Globes Announcement
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While hordes of industry folks wait on official word—expected to come today—about the fate of the Golden Globes under the writers strike, planners we spoke to earlier today who are working on the week's big related events were resigned to a wait-and-see approach.
"Everything's on hold," said Eileen Rivard, HBO's New York-based vice president of special events, who works on the network's annual party at the Beverly Hilton, when we spoke to her today. "It would be nice to know what's going on." HBO's bash is among the most anticipated of the night.
NBC Universal's party was in a holding pattern as well. "The tent was supposed to be installed today, and then we got a call over the weekend and it was pushed back until tomorrow," said Mark Yumkas of Angel City, the group that designs and produces the party. The load-in was on indefinite hold.
Only organizers behind gift suites—like In Style's and a suite sponsored by CVS and Access Hollywood—have told us decisively that they have no plans to pull the plug. Nonetheless, the landscape of the suites around town is likely to change in some way when official announcements come down regarding the state of the Globes. "If the telecast goes on, none of the talent go on, and none want to be seen at suites," said Cara Kleinhaut, whose Caravents produces the event for In Style. "What [the planned suites] might do is reposition themselves as a chance to come by and look at jewelry and get a blowout. No press, not the usual media circus. But right now we're still on [as scheduled]." —Alesandra Dubin
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Writers' Strike, Golden Globes, Award Season, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, HBO, NBC, Access Hollywood, CVS, In Style Magazine |
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