Former Academy President Reaches Out Directly to HFPA Members Offering ‘Fresh Start’ Alternative to Plan to End Nonprofit Status

thewrap.com:

Former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs this week reached out directly to members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) offering a plan to partner with her Pacific Coast Entertainment (PCE) to offer a “fresh start” to the group behind the embattled Golden Globes.Isaacs, who steered the movie academy through the #OscarsSoWhite controversy during her 2013-17 tenure, also criticized the “disappointing” lack of response from HFPA president Helen Hoehne and Todd Boehly, the billionaire investor who serves as interim CEO of HFPA.

Boehly also owns MRC, the company that produces the Globes telecast and shares in the $60 million licensing fee from NBC for the show.

In the letter Isaacs said her group had already sent two letters to the members, Hoehne and Boehly.In the April 19 letter e-blasted to the HFPA members and obtained by TheWrap, Isaacs also sought to clarify her involvement with Pacific Coast Entertainment because “a number of you did not know of my affiliation…with PCE.” PCE is a partnership between Yusef Jackson, a Chicago-based private investor and son of civil rights leader Rev.

Jess Jackson and well known entertainment and business professionals.In the letter, Isaacs offered that she and Jackson would make themselves available for one-on-one and small group meetings with members to discuss the plan and offered her personal email to facilitate setting up meetings in Beverly Hills as well as over Zoom during the next few days.