{"id":1784119,"date":"2022-12-22T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T16:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784119"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T16:33:25","slug":"judge-rules-universal-can-be-sued-for-allegedly-misleading-movie-trailer-after-fans-notice-ana-de-armas-was-cut-from-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-universal-can-be-sued-for-allegedly-misleading-movie-trailer-after-fans-notice-ana-de-armas-was-cut-from-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Universal Can Be Sued For Allegedly Misleading Movie Trailer After Fans Notice Ana De Armas Was Cut From \u2018Yesterday\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-rules-universal-can-be-sued-for-allegedly-misleading-movie-trailer-after-fans-notice-ana-de-armas-was-cut-from-yesterday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784119&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two men just gained major ground in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> against Universal Studios that dealt with allegedly misleading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movie<\/a> trailers, specifically referencing a promo for \u201cYesterday\u201d that included actress Ana de Armas despite her not being in the final cut.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs Paul Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe were attempting to head up a $5 million class action lawsuit against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studio<\/a> since January 2022. Both said they rented the movie \u201cYesterday\u201d on Amazon Prime for $3.99 with the expectation of watching de Armas in the film after seeing her in the trailer. They were disappointed that her scenes were cut from the final version.<\/p>\n<p>Rosza and Woulfe claimed that \u201cadvertising and promotion of the movie \u2018Yesterday\u2019 is false, misleading, and deceptive.\u201d Universal had moved to have the case dismissed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Universal reps defended their decision to keep de Armas in the trailer, claiming that the promos are entitled to free speech protection under the First Amendment. Studio lawyers further claimed the trailer represented \u201cartistic, expressive work\u201d and should be considered \u201cnon-commercial\u201d speech, per <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yesterday-trailer-suit.pdf\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson disagreed with the studios and ruled that trailers should be classified as \u201ccommercial speech\u201d and would therefore be subject to the California False Advertising Law and Unfair Competition Law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversal is correct that trailers involve some creativity and editorial discretion,\u201d Wilson said of his decision, but went on to say \u201cthis creativity does not outweigh the commercial nature of a trailer. At its core, a trailer is an advertisement designed to sell a movie by providing consumers with a preview of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To avoid a slew of lawsuits from moviegoers who would argue that movie trailers are misleading, the judge clarified that the false advertising stipulations only apply to movie trailers when a \u201csignificant portion\u201d of \u201creasonable consumers\u201d would be tricked into believing the movie was something other than what it really was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday\u201d is a 2019 romantic comedy about an alternate reality where only some people remember the Beatles and their music. De Armas was meant to play a love interest named Roxanne who caught the eye of male protagonist Jack Milak (Himesh Patel), but her scenes were all cut when she was called out specifically as being a negative influence on the main character during screen tests.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the audience did not like the fact that [Jack\u2019s] eyes even strayed,\u201d screenwriter Curtis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/news\/2475654\/yesterday-cut-an-entire-character-from-the-film-that-would-have-changed-the-plot\">told<\/a> Cinamablend in 2019 of why the subplot was ultimately cut from the final version.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men just gained major ground in a lawsuit against Universal Studios that dealt with allegedly misleading movie trailers, specifically referencing a promo for \u201cYesterday\u201d that included actress Ana de Armas despite her not being in the final cut. Plaintiffs Paul Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe were attempting to head up a $5 million class &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1784122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11211,9369,6962,3645,4845,10046,11212,11082,9677,6202,5823,3668,5387,11213,4868,6885,3807,5266,8226,8325,10844,6195],"class_list":["post-1784119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-yesterday","tag-for","tag-the","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-ana","tag-armas","tag-can","tag-cut","tag-daily","tag-fans","tag-from","tag-judge","tag-misleading","tag-movie","tag-notice","tag-rules","tag-sued","tag-trailer","tag-universal","tag-was","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}