Only a few years in the past, nominees for and winners of Golden Globe Awards had been decided by fewer than 100 folks, all of whom had been based mostly within the Los Angeles space. However within the aftermath of the 2023 sale of the Hollywood International Press Affiliation and the institution of the Golden Globes group as a replacement, there at the moment are some 300 Globes voters based mostly all world wide, which has made it a lot tougher for movie and tv firms to display screen awards-hopefuls for all of them.
Till now.
The Hollywood Reporter has realized that on Tuesday, the Globes shall be launching an official streaming platform — appropriate with all main digital media suppliers together with AppleTV, iOS, Roku and Amazon Fireplace — by which movie and tv firms will be capable of make their content material obtainable on to Globes voters of their properties.
This mannequin isn’t in contrast to the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ Academy Screening Room portal, however is being facilitated by Indee, which additionally facilitates streaming for members of the Producers Guild of America forward of its PGA Awards.
Indee advertises itself as a extremely safe go-between for content material suppliers and awards voters — “with a number of safety choices for video belongings, together with forensic and visual watermarking and multi-DRM” — and a way more eco-friendly possibility than hard-copy screeners.
All uploads will include a $5000 non-refundable “Golden Globe administrative price,” which incorporates one electronic mail blast to members. Past that, pricing will rely on whether or not an add is episodic (as much as 60 minutes) or feature-length (61 to 999 minutes), and the extent of safety desired: no safety, with no watermarks ($100 for episodic, $250 for feature-length), medium safety, with overlay watermarks ($200 for episodic or $1000 for feature-length) or excessive safety, with forensic watermarks ($350 for episodic or $2000 for feature-length).