Yesterday - Beatles music film

[James]

Published on 12 Feb 2019

Genre: Feel-Good Comedy
Cast: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Richard Curtis
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Bernie Bellew, Matthew James Wilkinson, Richard Curtis, Danny Boyle
Executive Producers: Nick Angel, Lee Brazier

Yesterday, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become a very big deal. From Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) and Richard Curtis, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and Notting Hill, comes a rock-n-roll comedy about music, dreams, friendship, and the long and winding road that leads to the love of your life.

Jack Malik (Himesh Patel, BBC’s Eastenders) is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie (Lily James, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again). Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that The Beatles have never existed … and he finds himself with a very complicated problem, indeed.

Performing songs by the greatest band in history to a world that has never heard them, and with a little help from his steel-hearted American agent, Debra (Emmy winner Kate McKinnon), Jack’s fame explodes. But as his star rises, he risks losing Ellie — the one person who always believed in him. With the door between his old life and his new closing, Jack will need to get back to where he once belonged and prove that all you need is love.

Featuring new versions of The Beatles’ most beloved hits, Yesterday is produced by Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (Love Actually, About A Boy, the Bridget Jones series) alongside Matthew James Wilkinson and Bernie Bellew. Curtis and Boyle also produce. Nick Angel and Lee Brazier serve as executive producers.


Trailer

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This is something I have daydreamed about haha - not exactly what happens in this film - but to go back in time and introduce the world to great songs.

[Niamh.]

Oh that sounds good actually

[Crimson Dynamo]

I'd watch if on the telly but not pay to see

Good line to ed sheeran :joker:

[Greg!]

NOT Tamwar

[Alf]

That concept has sort of been done before, In the sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart. Gary Sparrow rips off a host of artists, predominantly The Beatles and passes it off as his own music.

I'll pass

[Livia]

I can't comprehend that there will be a time when people forget the Beatles. It'd be like people forgetting Mozart, such was their impact. Although, I like Richard Curtis's films and this'll probably be great.

[Mystic Mock]

I wonder if this is a Film that's better in execution rather than how it sounds in description.

[Rob!]

It’s a Richard Curtis film so this will probably be brilliant.

[James]

I just watched this for the time.

It's good fun, yeah.

I'd give it 7/10.

[James]

.....The filmmakers paid $10 million for the rights to use the Beatles' music.....

Budget $26 million


Wow.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_(2019_film)

[Smithy]

I liked it, but when they tried to make Ed Sheeran out to be the greatest songwriter of all time.... sweetie

[Shaun]

Refuse to watch just because of Sheeran's involvement. Looked maudlin and trite anyway.

[Niamh.]

I loved it

[Toy Soldier]

Wow.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_(2019_film)

That's why they had to hire Tamwar for £9.50/hour

[James]

Fans sue Universal Pictures over film without Ana de Armas
Published 22 minutes ago

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Ana de Armas at the No Time To Die premiere in London. Photo: September 2021

Two US fans of Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas have sued Hollywood studio Universal Pictures, saying they were duped into renting a film because she was in the trailer.

Conor Woulfe and Peter Rosza say they each paid $3.99 (£2.94) for the comedy Yesterday, only to discover the actress had been removed from the final cut.

They are seeking $5m in compensation on behalf of all affected viewers.

Universal Pictures has so far not commented on the issue.

The fans say they were victims of deceptive marketing, and that Universal used de Armas's "fame, radiance and brilliance" to promote a film she wasn't in.

"Although defendant included the scenes with Ms de Armas in the movie trailer advertisements, for the purposes of promoting Yesterday and enticing film sales and rentals, Ms de Armas is not and was never in the publicly released version of the movie," says the complaint filed in California on Friday, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Yesterday is about a singer-songwriter who hits his head and wakes up to discover he is the only person on Earth who remembers the Beatles.

Ana de Armas - who appeared in the latest Bond film No Time to Die - was to have co-starred as a love interest of the singer in the comedy.


But the scenes with the 33-year-old actress were cut, apparently because audiences did not like that aspect of the storyline.

Richard Curtis, the screenwriter, said in 2019 that it had been a "very traumatic cut", because de Armas was "brilliant" in the role.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60092299

The best example I can think of trailer not being the same as the film was Rogue One.

[arista]

Yes sounds like they can Justify it in a Court,
using [B]it was not liked