LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hollywood shows prices are known to be slow, but not if the prosecution who will determine the future of the Golden Globes. Counsel for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions will be fighting in the Court of first instance on 22 August.
Last November, the HFPA sued producer of the DCP allegations show that it had breached a contract unilaterally reaching a new agreement of dissemination of eight years for the Globes in secret with NBC.
Originally, there was some concern that the dispute could put the show 2012 at risk because if a new producer to be chosen, he could not reach before a decision was made on the claims of the HFPA. At the time, a December trial date seems more probable, triggering alarms for a gala that is usually broadcast everything just a month later.
But the U.S. District Court judge Valerie Baker Fairbank and the parties have worked hard to make the dispute extraordinarily rapidly (no small feat in the Palace of justice L.A. plugged). The planned trial has been on a record "rocket" for September, but now the trial has been moved to the end of August.
The two parties are storming heaven and Earth to conclude the preparatory phase of discovery of the case. A number of depositions took place or will soon take place, including executives of NBC Universal.
DCP defends the prosecution in its contract with HFPA pointing and saying that the agreement gives "exclusive" and "irrevocable" options keep the Globes. The two parties dispute whether consent on a new broadcasting agreement was necessary, with the HFPA also accusing the defendant of requisition of the Globes of marks and other rights for its own benefit.
(Edited by Chris Michaud)
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