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Spielberg, Cooper, Lawrence, Travolta Help HFPA Distribute $1.2 Million In Grants

By PETE HAMMOND | Thursday August 9, 2012 @ 5:10pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Bradley Cooper, Dustin Hoffman, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Jennifer Lawrence, John Travolta, Steven Spielberg
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“I’m here to get nominated,”  laughed Dustin Hoffman (who is making his directorial debut at age 75 with the 2012 Weinstein release, Quartet) as he took the stage at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual lunch to present grants to non-profit entertainment related organizations and scholarship programs. It was meant as a joke but clearly there is some truth to it, as this luncheon, held today at the Beverly Hills Hotel, often draws a lot of awards hopefuls to accept the generous grants in front of virtually the entire HFPA membership. If you’re a film or TV contender it certainly doesn’t hurt to be seen in this room. Awards consultants and PR Execs eagerly cooperate with the HFPA to get a strong turnout of contenders at this early pre-season kickoff to yet another awards race. Among the many PR types present you heard the same phrase over and over, “well here we go again”.

Among those presenting the total of more than $1.2 million to some 40 organizations today in addition to Hoffman were Steven Spielberg (Lincoln), John Travolta (Savages), Don Johnson and Kerry Washington (Django Unchained), Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games), Jack Black (Bernie), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Kelsey Grammer (Boss) and Carla Gugino (Political Animals). Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) opened the proceedings for the Foreign Press group by joking that ”the 40 grants are as diverse as the people sitting in this audience today”. READ MORE »

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Golden Globes Trial: Judge Says Future Shows Will Be Under Legal Cloud With Appeal

By PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor | Tuesday July 24, 2012 @ 5:25pm PDTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, HFPA

U.S. District Court Judge A. Howard Matz said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association‘s appeal in the trial over who owns the Golden Globes is going forward (read today’s doc here). But he clearly isn’t happy about it, and he says the process likely will mean upcoming Globes shows will take place under a legal cloud just like the last one. In his order — a procedural ruling that makes way for the HFPA’s appeal against trial winner Dick Clark Productions — Matz as in the past seems frustrated that the dispute between the two parties wasn’t resolved much earlier given the Globes’ value to both, and the case will drag on as a result. Now, “even assuming an immediate appeal … it is unlikely that the parties’ dispute could be resolved before the 2013 or the 2014 Golden Globe Awards Show — which would already be three years into the contested contract period. Delaying … would push back appellate review another one-to-two years, possibly up to (or even beyond) the 2016 Golden Globes”. Read More »

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HFPA Files Appeal In Golden Globes Case, Says It Can’t Work With “Devious” Dick Clark Productions

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday June 14, 2012 @ 10:01pm PDTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, HFPA, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Hollywood lawsuit

As expected, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association tonight filed a motion seeking an immediate appeal in the Golden Globes case. The motion (Read it here) derives from April 30 when the HFPA lost to Dick Clark Productions … Read More »

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Dick Clark Productions Explores Sale

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 13, 2012 @ 8:10pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Dick Clark Productions is exploring a potential sale, the New York Times reports. DCP, which recently won a court fight that secured its position as producer of the Golden Globes Awards show, has retained the Raine Group … Read More »

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HFPA Re-Elects President In Runoff Vote

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday June 8, 2012 @ 10:58pm PDTTags: Aida Takla O'Reilly, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Aida Takla O’Reilly, incumbent president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was re-elected tonight in a runoff vote following an unusual three-way split among O’Reilly and two rivals. An HFPA source revealed the result to Deadline following the … Read More »

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HFPA To Appeal Loss In Golden Globes Trial

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 1:39am PDTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Hollywood lawsuits, NBC

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is going back to court to appeal Dick Clark Productions’ recent victory in the battle over who owns the TV rights to the Golden Globes. In a court ordered Joint Status Report submitted … Read More »

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UPDATE: Dick Clark Wins Golden Globes TV Trial; Judge Says 1993 Amendment Key

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Golden Globes TrialUPDATED: Judge Howard A. Matz has found in favor of defendant Dick Clark Productions in the trial with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association over who owns TV rights to the Golden Globes. DCP now … Read More »

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Golden Globes Trial: Documents Show Just How Divided HFPA & Dick Clark Prods Are

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday March 17, 2012 @ 2:46pm PDTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Freelance writer Dominic Patten is a Deadline contributor

Golden Globes Trial Dick Clark ProductionsThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions are still so far apart in the battle over who owns TV rights to the Golden Globes that … Read More »

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Golden Globes Trial: No Decision Likely Before “Late March Or Early April”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 17, 2012 @ 6:24pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

HFPA: Our Rights Are Being Held Hostage

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

It looks like it’s going to be awhile before there’s a decision in the trial between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark … Read More »

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Golden Globes Trial Summary: “Our Rights Are Being Held Hostage,” HFPA Lawyer Says

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 3:08pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Golden Globes Closing Arguments: Lawyer Says Dick Clark “Enslaved” HFPA

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

“They stole the rights!” declared Hollywood Foreign Press Association lawyer Daniel Petrocelli in summing up Dick Clark Productions in his closing argument today. “The servant has become the master.” His courtroom audience included a crowd of past, present and probably future HFPA Presidents, as well as executives from DCP and its owner Red Zone Capitol, “because of 12 words slipped into a contract that nobody read.” Petrocelli said “our rights are being held hostage” by the the 1993 perpetuity amendment that is the focus of the case. Petrocelli said the HFPA “has a right” to get out of its relationship with DCP, “a company they certainly don’t trust.”

Trust was also a topic raised by DCP lawyer Marty Katz early this afternon duringduring the early afternoon in his own closing remarks. Calling attention to in-fighting within the HFPA — which even Judge A. Howard Matz described as seemingly “always in turmoil” — Katz cited the distrust former HFPA President Phil Berk, who was in attendance, had for others in his organization and for DCP. Over the years Katz said Berk was constantly “looking for a way to unravel the agreement” the production company had to produce the Golden Globes telecast on NBC. Read More »

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UPDATE: Closing Arguments Conclude In Golden Globes Trial; Lawyer Says Dick Clark “Enslaved” HFPA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 1:05pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

UPDATE, 1:05 PM: Closing arguments have concluded and now it’s up to the judge to decide who wins and loses. But don’t expect a decision anytime soon as Matz told the jam-packed courtroom at the end of session today that “it is going to be some time before I can turn back to this”.

PREVIOUS, 12 PM: Hollywood Foreign Press Association lawyer Dan Petrocelli said that Dick Clark Productions’ amendment to an agreement about TV rights to the Golden Globes “enslaved the HFPA”. The words came during closing arguments today in the trial between DCP and the HFPA over those TV rights. Citing a 1993 perpetuity amendment at the heart of the two-week trial, Petrocelli said that “12 words changed the entire course of history between the two parties.” DCP, said the lawyer, added the language in 1993 in a “sloppy” and “dirty way”. He dismissed “a lack of candor” in the testimony of former DCP president Fran La Maina and former HFPA president Mirjana Van Blaricom as “severing off” key evidence around the amendment. Read More »

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Golden Globes Trial Analysis: Time To Bring In A High-Powered Mediator?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 7:43pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

After two weeks of testimony and more than a dozen witnesses including current and past presidents of both Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions, their court battle over TV rights to the Golden Globes is now in a holding pattern. At the core of the dispute is a 1993 amendment to DCP’s longtime contract with the HFPA. The production company says the amendment grants them rights in perpetuity to the Golden Globes as long as the show is broadcast on NBC, which it has been since 1996. The HFPA says it does no such thing. When DCP signed a $150 million deal with NBC in 2010 extending the network pact until 2018, HFPA took the production company to court.

On Tuesday, Judge A. Howard Matz implored both parties to take the time before their lawyers begin closing arguments on Friday, February 10th to try to come to a settlement. As Deadline reported previously, neither side is talking to the other and some close to the case believe a settlement is unlikely.

Having watched almost every minute of the trial, here are a few observations both sides might want to consider:

CLEAN HOUSE: DCP certainly has issues of its own, like bald-faced lying to NBC during negotiations — more politely known as bluffing. But the cloistered 85-odd members of the HFPA need to clean house and create a professional organization. The parade of former HFPA presidents such as Phil Berk and Mirjana Van Blaricom and staff members have revealed a viper’s pit of in-fighting. It has also revealed a lack of business savvy — which is pretty bad when you are handling a multi-million-dollar asset like the Globes. Read More »

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Golden Globes Trial: Neither Side Is Budging

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 1:48pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

They’ve talked about talking but that’s as far as it has gotten. A day after Judge A. Howard Matz strongly urged lawyers for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick … Read More »

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Golden Globes Trial: Judge Urges Both Sides To ‘Come To A Settlement’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 4:53pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Ex-HFPA President Says No Meeting Notes Were Destroyed

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

Settle this thing by Friday. That is in essence what Judge A. Howard Matz told lawyers for the Hollywood Foreign Press … Read More »

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Golden Globes Trial: Ex-HFPA President Says No Meeting Notes Were Destroyed

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 1:01pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

Former HFPA president Dagmar Dunlevy testified in court today she couldn’t recall that any minutes of meetings or tape recordings were destroyed when she was in executive positions at the Golden … Read More »

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Dick Clark’s Deposition: NBC Was The Golden Globes’ Only Option For Network TV

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 3, 2012 @ 5:59pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Ex-HFPA President Says Transcripts Of Key Meeting “Missing”

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

Dick Clark says that because of its history — in particular the notorious Pia Zadora incident — he didn’t think the … Read More »

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UPDATE: Ex-HFPA President Says Transcripts Of Key Meeting “Missing”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 3, 2012 @ 1:50pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

UPDATE, 1:50 PM: Mirjana Van Blaricom testified that “something is missing” from transcripts of the pivotal HFPA membership meeting at which a disputed perpetuity amendment was presented by Golden Globes producer … Read More »

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HFPA’s Expert Witness Disputes Golden Globes Contract Language

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 2, 2012 @ 7:24pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

UPDATE: HFPA’s Philip Berk Says He Didn’t Seek Golden Globes Offer From CBS

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

This afternoon’s prolonged testimony in Day 7 of the trial over disputed TV rights to the Golden Globes telecast consisted of what an exasperated Judge A. Howard Matz described as opposing attorneys “going around in a lot of circles.” Under questioning from both sides, expert witness David Tenzer testified “Not everything gets documented exactly as it should” in the TV business. Stating the obvious, he said Dick Clark Productions believes “they have greater rights and longer rights” than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association thinks they do. Tenzer, a former CAA business affairs executive, is testifying on behalf of HFPA.

“In my twenty-seven years in television,” Tenzer wrote in his report on the case, “I can recall no contract between a producer or network, on the one hand, and a rights holder, on the other, in an arms-length relationship that granted perpetual options to broadcast a recurring event, either unconditionally or for as long as the network wanted.” Tenzer rejected the defendants’ lawyer’s contention that such perpetual rights do exist in other DCP produced shows such as the Academy of Country Music Awards, American Music Awards and New Years Rockin’ Eve. None of them, Tenzer assserted on the stand, meets the vital “arms length” standard because they are essentially DCP created and produced shows and do not involve a third party as is the case with the HFPA and the Globes. Read More »

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UPDATE: HFPA’s Philip Berk Says He Didn’t Seek Golden Globes Offer From CBS

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 2, 2012 @ 11:50am PSTTags: Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Leslie Moonves, Philip Berk

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

UPDATE, 11:50 AM: Berk just said on the stand that he “did not ask” Moonves to make him an offer for the Golden Globes in 2010. In an apparent contradiction to the … Read More »

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