Queen Latifah wants ‘Gone With the Wind’ gone, but HBO Max is bringing it back

On paper, a film about a man being preserved in pickle brine for 100 years, to wake up in 2020 and discover that the world is very different than how he remembered, is ripe for comedy. It’s the basic fish out of water story.

As has been seen several times over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, studios have been trying to figure out how to release their films with no theaters and that has resulted in some features being sold off to streaming services. That is exactly what happened with Seth Rogen’s new film “An American Pickle,” which arrives on HBO Max after Sony decided to forgo a theatrical release.

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”

What to make of Dory Sief? Played by Alia Shawkat on the critical darling “Search Party,” Dory is an average NYC young woman who went from an inquisitive bystander in the first season to being accused of murder in the third, launching on HBO Max on June 25. Shawkat, who considers the role the best of her career, has done nuanced work in conveying the arc of a woman thrust into a fascinating nightmare.

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.

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Will Thorne Staff WriterBrian Grazer and his Imagine Television Studios shingle have set up a project at HBO Max based on Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling book “Outliers.”The anthology series, which is now in development at the streamer, is a part historical drama, part biopic. Each season will profile individuals through the unique “Outliers” lens, looking at the specific historical situation which led to their outsized imprint on society and what ultimately makes them an Outlier.

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

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Manori Ravindran International EditorHBO Max’s Sandra Dewey has said the streamer is being “slow and careful” in its plans to bring back “Gone With the Wind” after the film was yanked from the platform in the wake of the George Floyd protests.Speaking as part of the virtual Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday, the president of business affairs and production for HBO Max told Variety that the platform is still “working out” a strategy to bring the 1939 film back.“We are being slow and careful

Queen Latifah said she supports HBO Max’s controversial decision to remove “Gone with the Wind” from its library due to racial sensitivity. The 1939 Oscar-winning film set during the Civil War was removed from the platform due to concerns over its depiction of black people from that era amid heightened sensitivity to racial issues sparked by the death of George Floyd.

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HBO Max's announcement that they would be temporarily pulling from its slate of streaming options — amid outcries over the film's dated depictions of slavery and racism -- celebs across the entertainment industry weighed in on the decision. Megyn Kelly took to Twitter on Tuesday to decry the streaming service's announcement as censorship of a «cultural touchstone.» ( is still currently available for online rental on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, YouTube and more.)«Are we going to pull all of the

HBO Max has responded by temporarily removing Gone With the Wind from its streaming catalog.

Almost every studio in Hollywood has a skeleton in its closet in regards to a film in its catalog that doesn’t stand up to the test of time. Disney has “The Song of the South,” as well as a lot of older cartoons with racist depictions of characters.

HBO Max has removed war epic film “Gone with the Wind” from its recently launched streaming service over its depiction of slavery, parent WarnerMedia said on Wednesday, joining other media companies that have pulled controversial TV shows as demand for racial sensitivity increases across the country.