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‘Yesterday’ Fans’ Anger Over Ana de Armas’ Absence From Beatles-Themed Film Is So Yesterday, As Judge Tosses Lawsuit


Looks like a federal judge believes in Yesterday.
A year and a half ago, Paul Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe filed a $5 million lawsuit against Universal over Ana de Armas appearing in the trailer for the 2019 Danny Boyle-directed Yesterday, but being absent from the film itself.

Yesterday, U.S. District Stephen Wilson tossed the whole thing out.
Rejecting the plaintiff’s notion of “misrepresentation” in de Armas’ absence as a love interest from the Himesh Patel-led Beatles-themed rom-com, the judge agreed with the Comcast-owned studio that the case is a “self-­inflicted injury.”

Along with denying Rosza and Woulfe’s desire for class certification, Wilson also ordered this much amended case to truly be over for good.
“In each prior dismissal, the Court has clearly delineated the pitfalls of the complaint and allowed successive amendments,” he wrote in an August 28 order. “However, it now appears to the Court that further amendments would be a futility. Accordingly, dismissal is without leave to amend. This is the third time that Plaintiff has amended their complaint, and it shall be the last.”

Perhaps pushing Wilson to that endgame was Woulfe’s renting the film again online after the lawsuit started in January 2022 and claiming new “misrepresentations on Google” of the Blonde star actually being in Yesterday. “Plaintiff Woulfe has offered no explanation as to why he believed that version of Yesterday they accessed on Google Play would be a different version of the movie they accessed on Amazon,” the judge said in the rather brisk nine-page order.
Universal did not respond to request for comment on yesterday’s Yesterday decision. If and when they do, we will update this post.

The whole thing was spawned by California-based Rosza and Maryland-based Woulfe respectively in July and October of 2021 renting Yesterday off Amazon’s Prime Video after seeing a trailer for the picture. In said trailer in the movie about a going-nowhere musician who wakes up knowing almost every song by the Beatles in a world where the Fab Four never existed, there is a brief scene with de Armas catching the eye of Patel’s Jack Malik character.
However, the actress’ role ended up on the cutting-room floor of the Richard Curtis-penned project. Unlike the Paul McCartney and John Lennon song “Yesterday,” the filmmakers did know why she had to go. “I think the audience did not like the fact that his eyes even strayed,” Curtis told Cinamablend in 2019 of why de Armas and her subplot was cut from the film, which was released in May 2019.
That wasn’t enough for Rosza and Woulfe.
“Defendant’s advertising and promotion of the movie Yesterday is false, misleading, and deceptive,” their January 21, 2022 lawsuit said of Universal.
Wilson seemed to be in line with that argument, at least last December.
“Universal is correct that trailers involve some creativity and editorial discretion, but this creativity does not outweigh the commercial nature of a trailer,” he wrote in a December 20 ruling on an unsuccessful motion by Universal to dismiss a class action by the plaintiffs
But that was yesterday, and this is now – and today Yesterday is OK

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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