No False Advertising! Ana de Armas’ Absence From ‘Yesterday’ Flick Puts Trailers In Legal Spotlight
deadline.comYesterday, Universal’s troubles suddenly weren’t so far away, at least when it comes to Ana de Armas’ absence from the 2019 Danny Boyle directed flick Yesterday. “Universal is correct that trailers involve some creativity and editorial discretion, but this creativity does not outweigh the commercial nature of a trailer,” wrote U.S.
District Judge Steven Wilson in a December 20 ruling on the studio’s mainly failed motion to dismiss the potential class action first filed back in January by Paul Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe. “At its core, a trailer is an advertisement designed to sell a movie by providing consumers with a preview of the movie,” the federal judge went on to say (read it here) Trailer version of the $5 million suit: In July and October of 2021, Maryland-based Woulfe and California-based Rosza saw a trailer for the Himesh Patel-lead romcom that featured de Armas as a love interest.
Both fans soon after rented the film about a musician who wakes up knowing all the Beatles songs in a world where the Beatles never existed.
One catch (in a deep voice): de Armas was nowhere to be found in the picture. The now Blonde actress had been cut from Yesterday entirely. “I think the audience did not like the fact that his eyes even strayed,” screenwriter Curtis told Cinamablend in 2019 of Patel’s Jack Malik and why de Armas’ Roxanne character, plus the subplot surrounding her was left on the cutting room floor.
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