HBO Max Restores ‘Gone With the Wind’ With Disclaimer Saying Film ‘Denies the Horrors of Slavery’

Amir Khan admits he’s risking his legacy in the sport by fighting Kell Brook.But his wife, Faryal Makhdoom, only gave him the green light to take the gamble when he proved to her he was taking the fight seriously.Khan and Brook will finally settle their rivalry tonight at Manchester Arena in a clash which has been 19 years in the making.There are no titles on the line for the past-their-best welterweights but there is a lot to lose in terms of reputation.Both are at the end of storied careers and this fight has lingered throughout their time in the ring.Khan, 35, has won Olympic silver at 17 and became a unified light-welterweight champion as well as making a name for himself in America.But, should he suffer a sixth defeat tonight, then he may be more remembered for bowing out in defeat to his bitter rival, who he has been bickering with since a sparring session as amateurs when they were teenagers.“You’re always that one fight away from destroying your whole legacy,” said the Bolton fighter.“This is a fight that I could end up losing what I’ve done in my whole career.

UFC fighter Mike Perry is set to take on Julian Lane in the co-main event of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) Knuckle Mania 2 event on Saturday and the pair had a heated show-down at the press-conference.The two fighters exchanged verbal barbs and needed to be separated when Perry pulled out a baseball bat and threatened Lane.After calling Lane a "little b****", Perry put down his microphone, picked up the bat and brandished it towards his opponent.As security personnel stepped between the two fighters to ensure things could not get physical, Lane said: "Oh yeah? You got a bat, b****? Look at this guy: he needs a bat."Lane and Perry previously got into a ringside scrap at the BKFC Fight Night: Tampa event in December, with Lane provoking Perry while he was speaking to the commentary team about his decision to join the promotion.Perry put down his headset and left the commentary booth to brawl with Lane in the crowd before security separated them and the pair are now set to fight in Perry's BKFC debut.Reflecting on the scrap ahead of their bout, Perry said: "When they brought me over – and I had a few drinks that night, so I wasn't fully clear-headed and wasn’t totally sober.What did you make of the scuffle? Let us know in the comments section."I tried to drink some water before I went over there to do the interview. I tried to take some deep breaths and be like, 'Oh man, I've got to try to sober up,' and I don’t know, he threw those cards at me."Whatever, bro.

Coronation Street fans found out that Max Turner spiked Amy Barlow’s drink at their school disco as police seized his video camera.During Friday’s (18 February) instalment of the popular ITV soap, viewers were glued to their screens after they noticed the student filmed the school dance on the big night.But when Daniel Osborne and David Metcalfe started pestering the him for the much-needed footage, Max managed to find ways out of handing the clip into evidence.As he went through the footage on his laptop, David stormed into the house and demanded the camera with a police officer hot on his tails.Yet when the doting dad attempted to look through the clips on the camera, he came up blank as he handed over the equipment to the officer.As he turned his back to the room and pulled out the SD card from his pocket before he ran out of the room.Later on, doting dad David asked what was getting his son so upset as he walked in on him watching back the hidden footage on his computer. It was at this point that he watched Max hide a bottle of GHB inside his cast where he went on to subtly spike one of the drinks.

Prince Harry’s old Army buddies has revealed why he and the Duke of Sussex don’t see each other following a 15-year relationship — even though they both live in California. Dean Stott, who has recently joined the directing team on this season's SAS Australia, first met Harry when they were on a training course for the British Army.The pair then went on tours to Afghanistan together but Dean admits to not seeing his royal pal as much as he used to.

Kell Brook believed he could beat Amir Khan from the moment his mentor Brendan Ingle told him he would as a teenager.Now the Sheffield star is ready to fulfil the late Ingle’s prophecy and finally earn the respect from Khan he has always craved.The pair will meet in the ring at Manchester Arena tonight to end their long-running feud.Famed Irish-born trainer Ingle - who helped Prince Naseem Hamed become a superstar - first predicted ‘Special One’ Brook would topple the Bolton fighter back in 2005 when he was just 18.Now, with both fighters at 35, Brook is ready to deliver on the promise.“Whatever Brendan said to me I believed,” said Brook, who is now trained by Ingle’s son Dom.“He’s my hero, Brendan Ingle.“He’s said that, but I grew up with confidence because I was a winner. I’ve always believed I have the beating of him.

The One Show's Alex Jones was ripped into by her co-star Rylan Clark after he told viewers about an awkward animal revelation of hers.On Friday's programme, the pair presented the show and discussed the happy news of a new baby aardvark at Chester Zoo.Alex introduced the segment and said: "But first though, another kind of celebration, his week Chester Zoo announce the arrival of a baby aardvark who has been nicknamed dobby after Harry Potter famous house elf.To which Rylan replied: "Keepers weren't initially too sure if Dobby was a boy or a girl. We weren't too sure what one looked like Alex thought on was a mythical creature."Alex then shouted: "Stop it!"Rylan then quipped: "And she thought it was just on CBBC, long live Otis the aardvark.

Duchess of Cambridge via a social media post after seeing her rendition of children's book The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark on CBeebies Bedtime Stories.Though we might know Matt best these days for The One Show, Countryfile and, of course, Our Farm In The Dales, he first rose to fame presenting children's TV shows.The 44-year-old TV star had a seven year stint on Blue Peter earlier in his career, before leaving in 2006.His history left him well-placed to judge the performance of the duchess when she read out the much-loved kids' story - and his response left onlookers in no doubt that he was impressed."Welcome to the Childrens BBC Presenters Club!" he wrote, punctuating his feelings with a love-heart emoji.The Duchess is yet to respond to the comment publicly.However, the official CBeebies Instagram account replied with playful laughing emojis, while other fans shared in their approval of Matt.One joked: "I used to watch you a lot when I was an aupair. I think I've learnt the most of my English from CBeebies."After reading out the story about how the courageous little owl conquered his fears, Kate added a personal message of her own."Wow, what an encouraging tale!" she praised."We can all feel scared sometimes, just like our little owl friend, Plop," she continued."But, as Mrs Barn Owl said, it’s better to find out about the things that scare us before we make up our mind."And with the help of others, we can often face things that worry us."Now it's time for bed.

A case of mistaken identity. Hilary Duff was a good sport when a class of elementary school kids confused her with Lindsay Lohan.

While Maurissa Gunn is still staying mum on her split from Riley Christian, she’s continuing to fuel speculation that he was the one in the wrong.

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” adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, as well as its inflation-adjusted standing as the highest-grossing movie of all time.Then, Stewart acknowledges that the film “was not universally praised,” seeing as it “paints the picture of the antebellum

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 and part re-evaluation of the Academy Award winner.One of the new videos sees TCM’s Silent Sunday Nights host Jacqueline Stewart giving both a sprawling and specific critique of the Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland and

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. The intro aims to put the film's racist depictions into context with a message delivered by Jacqueline Stewart, who talks about the film's accolades as well as the protests against the depiction of the Antebellum South, slavery, and racial inequality. "Watching Gone with the Wind can be uncomfortable, even painful," Stewart says in the intro.

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”. Today, Dewey confirmed that the film will be back online “very soon” with added historical context.

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 Cinema and Media Studies professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

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.

will soon be available once again on HBO Max, but Queen Latifah is fine with it remaining .The streaming service announced that when the 1939 Civil War drama becomes available this time around, it will include an introduction by Jacqueline Stewart, host of on Turner Classic Movies and professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.Latifah, however, isn't so keen on it coming back. «Let  be gone with the wind,» she tells the Associated Press in a recent interview. The 50-year-old actress recently starred on Ryan Murphy's Netflix show,, as Hattie McDaniel, who portrayed Mammy in and became the first black woman to win an Academy Award.

Gone With The Wind will be back on HBO Max, with a few changes.

Gone With The Wind will return to HBO Max with a full introduction to provide “historical context” surrounding the controversial movie.The 1939 Oscar winning epic is considered an early classic of cinema, but it has proved controversial for its unabashed portrayal of Confederacy and slavery on a Southern plantation.It was removed from the streaming platform last week after coming under criticism for romanticising slavery, but HBO said it would return with a full “discussion of its historical context”.It has now been confirmed that future airings of the film will start with an introduction from Jacqueline Stewart, a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago who will explain the “historical context”

Less than one week after HBOMax announced that they had pulled Gone With the Wind from their platform due to “racist depictions,” it has been revealed that the classic 1939 film will return with one major change – an introduction by Jacqueline Stewart, a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. In an op-ed she wrote for CNN this weekend, Stewart – who is also the host of Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies – says that she will provide the introduction to place the film in its multiple historical contexts.