Queen Latifah Thinks 'Gone With the Wind' Should Be 'Gone'

Queen Latifah paid homage to Breonna Taylor on Sunday (July 5), just days after what would have been the Louisville, Kentucky, native's 27th birthday.

was pulled from the streaming service weeks ago.

gone from HBO Max, having been restored to the streaming service’s library with a new prologue about the film’s problematic themes and depictionof the antebellum South.Jacqueline Stewart, host of TCM’s “Silent Sunday Nights” and a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, leads the 4 ½-minute intro, which starts off with a general cinematic lesson — recounting the eight Academy Awards (including for Best Picture) won in 1939 by the “highly anticipated”

LOS ANGELES — Movie classic “Gone with the Wind” returned to the HBO Max streaming platform on Wednesday, along with two extra features discussing its depiction of race in the Civil War era.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA day after WarnerMedia’s Sandra Dewey promised a virtual Cannes that Gone With the Wind would be back on HBI Max “very soon,” the controversial 1939 film has indeed returned – with some poignant historical context “about the film’s handling of the topic of slavery, and its treatment of Black characters.”Pulled from the AT&T-owned new-ish streamer back on June 9, the Antebellum South set film now comes with two new videos that are part disclaimer

Updated 6/24: HBO Max has reportedly returned Gone with the Windto its streaming platform, this time with a four-and-a-half minute intro leading into the movie.

“Gone With the Wind” was restored to HBO Max on Wednesday after initially being pulled from the new streaming platform, and the film now opens with a video introduction that speaks to the film’s flawed, romantic view of the Antebellum south.“The film’s treatment of this world through a lens of nostalgia denies the horrors of slavery, as well as its legacy of racial inequality,” TCM host Jacqueline Stewart says in a several minute video introduction at the start of the film.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor“Gone With the Wind” is back on HBO Max — with two additional videos that discuss the historical context of the classic film.

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pulled from the service earlier this month due to its depictions of “ethnic and racial prejudices”. Today, Dewey confirmed that the film will be back online “very soon” with added historical context.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterSandra Dewey, who heads up business operations for WarnerMedia including its newly-launched VOD platform HBO Max, logged in to the Cannes virtual Marche today to offer an update on the streamer’s operations since it went online.One of the biggest headlines post-launch has been around Gone With The Wind, the 1939 epic that was pulled from the service earlier this month due to its depictions of “ethnic and racial prejudices”.

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Queen Latifah has declared she has mixed emotions about the decision by HBO Max executives to reinstate Gone With the Wind.The movie was pulled from the streaming service earlier this month after film critics suggested the racist and slavery undertones of the story were inappropriate following weeks of Black Lives Matter protests.Do the Right Thing filmmaker Spike Lee then urged HBO Max bosses to reconsider, and the film will now return to the site with an introduction from Jacqueline Stewart, a

Amid the Black Lives Matter protests all around the world, the movie Gone with the Wind was taken off HBO Max since it has a controversial message that people have criticized for a long time. That being said, the classic film is set to return to the streaming platform, this time alongside an added intro done by Jacqueline Stewart, a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago and host of Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies.

yanked it June 9 because of its “racist depictions” in the wake of the killing of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police last month, which led to mass protests worldwide. Now the network is planning to take its time in bringing it back to an audience.“We are being slow and careful, and I think that’s the right response.

Queen Latifah is opening up about how she feels about the 1939 movie, Gone With The Wind, which gained a lot of attention over the weekend with its racist undertones.