HFPA Plan To Send Members On Pricey Trip To Venice Film Festival Scuttled By Covid Restrictions
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: A deep-pocketed effort to send members of the addled and reform-promising Hollywood Foreign Press Association to the Venice Film Festival this year has been kiboshed due to a resurgence of the coronavirus.Expected to cost tens of thousands of dollars out of diminishing HFPA coffers, the Golden Globes group’s decision to not fork out travel for what one insider called “a vacation by any other name” was made in the last 24 hours, I’ve learned.
Unlikely to change, the verdict comes as voting results on further bylaw and board changes by the fractured HFPA are expected to be made public today.Before events seemingly shut down the trips, the HFPA was intent on paying up to $5,000 a piece for around at least a dozen members accredited
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