unfortunately, the warning came too late for these people. they were forced to pay an £600 each for their holiday in lanzarote. they got the money back, but it ruined their holiday. samantha fenwick, bbc news. hundreds of women have gathered in london's trafalgar square for the third annual women's march. the event was launched injanuary 2017 following the swearing in of donald trump as us president. protesters marched from portland place to trafalgar square holding banners with slogans. campaigners from anti—austerity groups, refugee organisations, the campaign for nuclear disarmament and family planning charities were among the speakers. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. it has been a cloudy day today, low over the hills with mist and fog.

this scene shows a stag crossing the snow in the hills. through this evening and overnight there will be some gaps in the cloud and the most likely places to see those gaps will be eastern scotland and parts of eastern england. elsewhere, a lot of cloud. it moves southwards with brighter skies following. for many of us, a fairly chilly day. that is your weather. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: former prime minister, sirjohn major, says the house

of commons should be given a vote on all brexit options. while labour's, sir keir starmer, says the government should either negotiate a close relationship with the eu, including a customs union, or there should be another referendum. if we cannot get a general election, labour must support all options remaining on the table including campaigning for a public vote. that was our commitment. police investigating the death of 14—year—old jaden moodie arrest an 18—year—old man on suspicion of murder. doctors leaders and patient groups express alarm at bbc analysis, which reveals a wide variation in the availability of gps in different parts of england. and the actor windsor davies — best known for his role as the sergeant major in the bbc comedy it ain't half hot mum — has died at the age of 88. now on bbc news, a special edition of talking movies, marking

two decades reporting on film from new york with tom brook. hello and welcome to this special 20th anniversary edition of talking movies. we're going there. i never miss a minute. i love talking movies, i do. he's everywhere. he's always in the most interesting places, and has greatjackets. thank you very much. he does — he has good macs. he's always standing on the street in new york at night time, in the lights. and that's dramatic, and it looks

like in the world of the movies. all that and more in this edition of talking movies. in this 20th anniversary show, we're going to draw on our archive in our effort to look at key changes that have taken place in the film let's sta rt by looking»: i will put you on the spot here, tom. which one did you prefer? well, in many ways i liked the social network. a hugely popular movie, won the best picture prize. an impressive 55 million people in the us tuned in to watch the oscars telecast. last year, the oscars only managed to deliver an audience of 26 million.

the academy awards are a diminished cultural phenomenon compared to what they were 20 years ago. for a few reasons. first of all, they don't tend to give 0scars to the kind of movies people are seeing very much. you know, you don't see the big superhero movies, the big sequels, getting nominated, let alone winning. and if black panther gets nominated this year, it will be a big deal, because that so rarely happens. even so, black panther is a long shot to win, and understandably, people don't want to watch an 0scars ceremony in which they haven't seen most or all of the movie that are nominated. that is not appealing to people. people want to see 0scars with movies that they like, that they have seen. what did you make of the oscars ceremony tonight? it was ok, yeah. it was long — very long. a bit old—fashioned, really. but could the oscars ceremony be re—engineered to bring in a bigger audience? the 0scars have tried to figure out ways to remedy how to make the ceremony shorter, more interesting, more appealing to young people, for as long as i remember watching them. but i'm not sure what changes would need to happen to kind of bring back a large audience that

has already kind of departed. the host, right, is an eternal problem, and i think one that seems like it's never solvable, because you're trying to please all sorts of people. it's tremendous, you know, with seven nominations, including best picture. i'm elated by that — truly, genuinely thrilled. but the academy awards, despite all the challenges, still has a tremendous impact. getting a trophy is a real seal of approval, that is highly valued. the publicists wage elaborate campaigns to win 0scars on behalf of the stars they represent. those campaigns, they're very important, because with the amount of content that's out there, anything that will really designate a point of difference is very important and valuable, financially as well as from an audience standpoint. the academy has been scrambling to remedy its problems. last year it announced a new category for achievement in popular film, with an eye

towards boosting the ratings. but in the wake of a chorus of complaints, including a charge that it was pandering to mainstream audiences, that proposal was withdrawn. there were also difficulties in securing a host for this year's telecast. clearly the academy faces a lot of challenges. tom always asks the most uncomfortable questions. as you get older, do you feel that you're improving, as an actress and as a human being? i love that question. i would not — i can't answer that question. that's an amazing question. i'm going to have it engraved and put on my fridge. over the years, talking movies has reported from around the world, and during that time the international market for hollywood films has grown dramatically. in 1999, the big hollywood studios got an estimated 30% oftheir revenue from tickets sold - outsidethefinited—statefi

definitely, you know, the japanese and the asian cultures are something that i've always wanted to know more about. great philosophies have come from there. his 2003 film the last samurai was partly made injapan, but with a western palmprint slapped all over it, alongside a western cast. many of our customs seem strange to you. in 2018, though, hollywood goes to asia. nic cage attended the international film festival in macau in december, alongside stars from hong kong and china, in order to show his film mandy. china, and filmmaking in china, and really all over, is the new way. !~. 2015 “gay-eke! {hi—e: relaxed its own rules on how many

each film's chinese release added profits for american studios. in a sign of the new global order, aquaman was released in china before the us. you can see why hollywood is salivating at the thought of the chinese market. everything about china is vast, including its potential audience of 1.3 billion people. yet nothing should be taken completely for granted. it has taken hollywood until 2018 to put its backing behind something like crazy rich asians, the first hollywood studio film set in contemporary times to be led by an asian cast in five years. jon chu's feel—good, escapist rom—com performed well in america but bombed in china, with just $1 million in takings. it hasn't been released in india at all. perhaps talk of a worldwide film village is still premature. that kind of romantic comedy

format is very frequent, is very common around asia, so i'm not sure it's ever going to work so well in the east. i think you have to be careful about the hybrid that tries to please everybody. you know, the great wall was a universal picture so chinese audiences are very suspicious offihusfthatarejjymg-.. . ,. w .. to manipulate them in a certain way. over the last few years, talking movies has reported consistently from india, owner of the world's most productive film industry. but it still took until 2016

for a genuine worldwide hit in hindi, dangal, starring aamir khan, to appear. the danger of other cultures being hollywood—influenced just isn't there. padmaavat, a lavish story from india which talking movies reported on in 2017, made an impressive $40 million worldwide in one week. india and china recently signed a treaty to increase the possibility of more film coproductions between them, and the danger might be more to hollywood, especially if studios persist in thinking that china's only demand is forformulaic action. i'm from the bbc, can i ask a couple of questions? sure. i see you in the mornings. ok, i hope it's not disturbing. in the early days of talking movies, 20 years ago, the film industry was basically ruled by white males,

and on screen, white faces prevailed. over the years, especially recently, that has begun to change. there's more diversity, inclusivity and equality. i was wondering if you had any entertainment. one of the first films that talking movies covered was the romantic comedy forces of nature, starring sandra bullock and ben affleck. in an interview with sandra bullock, the issue of gender parity came up. should actresses get the same pay as actors? why shouldn't women get paid? we're not in, you know, the stone age anymore. we've burned all the bras, we've gone through that. it's equality, and if the person does an equal amount of work and does just as well, then absolutely. you can break our hearts, but you cannot break our spirits. is it time that people of colour recognise how much power we have amassed? gender disparity and lack of diversity have often been covered in the show.

with the rise of the #0scarssowhite and #metoo campaigns, these issues have gained more profile recently. i think there are baby steps towards greater diversity, but i think the conversation is happening, and is manifesting on the screen, slowly but surely. it's being vocalised much more, and i truly hope that it's moving more and more in that direction, that we're seeing people who should be playing these parts on screen, stories that should be told on screen. i'm very passionate about that. the lgbt community also faces struggles. although there has been greater inclusivity over the last 20 years,

it's just a beautiful thing to see representation. i think that that's the most important thing — representation of all the different facets. the fact that i can look up and see myself as a superhero, or somebody who looks like me as a superhero, i think it does a remarkable thing for society as a whole. better representation is coming about partly because there is pressure to change, and because there is greater commitment at some studios towards embracing diversity. black panther was made by marvel studios. we are painfully aware of what we have not yet represented. i think we haven't represented the latin community, in general. i think that's something that we have to do better. i'm latin, i can tell you that i'm longing for that. the gay community has not been represented whatsoever. i'm gay, so i can tell you that i long for that. i think we haven't represented the asian community well.

i think we've had some representation, but it's minimal, and we would like to represent that in a big way. mum, this is rachel chu. she just thinks you're some, like, unrefined banana... no, no, no — no! those are for your fingers. ..yellow on the outside and white on the inside. but the road to greater diversity ins't one smooth trajectory. crazy rich asians, the first studio film set in the present day to be led by an all asian cast in 25 years was lauded for bringing a story of chinese and chinese american people to the screen. but some critics argued that this is a film that doesn't represent the sort of myriad of experiences that asians have. if you look at the film, the film still looks at dark skinned asians as the servants, the ones that are displayed prominently upfront were light skinned east asians. rachel, these people aren'tjust rich, 0k, they're crazy rich. supporters of diversity note that

it's notjust pressure to do the right thing that's fuelling this drive greater inclusivity. better representation on screen fills coffers, it sells at the box office. that the film industry is able to tap into. i mean, it's making money. there's no doubt about that. but it doesn't mean that it's a critical engagement in diversity. but respected figures in film don't believe that greater diversity in big hollywood films like black panther has only come about through a desire to make money. i think the tools to make films, the tools to create cinema have finally, after 80—90 years, reached the people who didn't grow up in the suburbs or who didn't grow up with a silver spoon. and now those people had been empowered to tell their stories. and so black panther‘s an extreme example. but i think something like moonlight or something even like blachklansman or get out, i think now there's just so many people who look like me

who have the tools to create the stories they want to tell. and that is how diversity in its many forms is likely to gain a realfoothold in the industry. not as something imposed on the top, but from a new, different group of film—makers rising up with the skills and the ability to tell a wide range of stories and get their narratives out to an audience. that's a real change from how it was in the film industry 20 years ago. you make me laugh. laughter. we're talking movies! 0k, good. that's good. yeah. this is brilliant. are you sure that was smiley enough? we've always covered stars on talking movies, but over the years we've been on the air the nature of stars has changed. they used to be a very potent component in the showbiz galaxy. but nowadays less so. fear not — the studios are still want stars in their films. definitely for the big studios, they still want names,

they still want well—known people to be in them, even if they're not the lead in the film. but it is a fact that the power of stars is dwindling. when talking movies first went on the air, a—listers like tom cruise and julia roberts had enormous clout. they could guarantee a successful opening weekend box office for a film they starred in — however bad it might be. but that has all changed. the movie stars‘ power has been supplanted by the franchise's power. so it used to be that you went to see a film because it was a julia roberts film or a will smith film or an adam sandler film or a tom cruise film, now you go because it's a marvel film or a jurassic world film or a transformers film. that's the way movies are branded today. that's what really appeals to consumers. they consider themselves loyal to a franchise and brand, rather than to a movie star. it's notjust competition from franchises that has undermined the powers of stars. it's also that they have lost some

of their specialness, their mystique. during ggldsn age sf film.” ' controlled environment. and so, as a result, the information and the accessibility that was going out there was orchestrated. and it was really orchestrated. now you can only orchestrate it to a point. indeed, it is different from the days when hollywood was carefully controlling the creation of larger than life movie stars. that was in the beginning, infancy of media. it was just new. elvis, marilyn monroe, jack kennedy, you know, television was new, and so you had individuals being elevated. now lots of people are being elevated. especially when it comes to the brave new worlds of youtube stardom and twitch stardom and all of these new places that people can come from and have enormous online followings, but also have other people

with no idea who they are. i think that we're seeing celebrity sort of morph in ways that speak to the idea of internet stardom as this new thing. but, i don't know, i think that there's still a lot of value to a movie star. you know, there's something to being this larger than life figure on screen. i think it still carries a huge amount of weight for people. stars may have been brought down to size by changes in the last 20 years, but by no means have they been totally supplanted by franchise superheroes. take, for example, the old —fashioned stardom of lady gaga and bradley cooper in a star is born. what do you think really made

you feel that you'd got it right? was it the way she talks, the wig, when did you realise, ok, i'm on track now? when the corgis started obeying me. laughter. you're kidding. i'm not kidding. two years before talking movies first went on the air, a small, little—known american company called netflix began to operate a rental service, where, for a fee, they would ship film fans dvds of new movies in bright red envelopes. well, netflix has now grown into a humongous streaming giant, upending the film business. now let's move on to the digital revolution and the impact it's having on the film industry. in 1999, talking movies featured this report on a pioneering experiment that enabled computer users and a cinema audience

to access a movie online. it was limited in scope. it is not where it will be five years from now. it is not to the quality of 35 millimetre right now. but, again, we'rejust getting going on this, we're just starting. this is sort of the beginning of television when it was this whole electronic cinema movement. netflix has expanded on that concept dramatically. there are now 130 million netflix subscribers and one in three internet users around the world make use of it. while talking movies has been reporting on the film industry, netflix and its streaming competitors have fomented a mini revolution. there's no question that netflix has been the most disruptive force in hollywood over the last five years, simply because though it has been around longer than that, by developing all this original programming at a very fast rate, developing so many different deals with high—profile talent, with competitive contracts, they have outpaced the studios

in terms of the kind of volume that they can put out into the world and that really kind of screws up the economics of hollywood that have been in place for so long. what the streaming services are doing by producing original content, films like roma, directed by alfonso cuaron, is offering up a lot of opportunities for film—makers looking for backing for their pictures. i think this is like a renaissance forfilm—makers and, you know, whether you're a writer, a film maker, a director, an actor, this isjust, like there is so much demand for more and more content. so this is a wonderful time to be in the content game. while netflix may be optimistic in relation to the future, this is not the case at the big studios, where the ascendancy of the streaming services has been cause for anxiety. i've been covering hollywood for almost 15 years, i've never seen the top executives so uncertain, so anxious about the future.

you know, we've really upended the way that people consume entertainment and, therefore, the way that a lot of artists create entertainment. and i think that the traditional studios, which are used to being on top, they're used to defining how movies and tv shows get made, now we consumers get them, now they don't have that power any more, the studios are very scared. they know that the future, at minimum, will be really different that what the past hundred years in hollywood have been like. in the worst—case scenario, the studios, as we know them, may evaporate. well, that's all from our special 20th anniversary edition of talking movies. we hope you've enjoyed the show and enjoyed the last 20 years of talking movies. it's certainly been a privilege for me to be here for the past two decades to present the show. so, from me, tom brook, and the rest of the talking movies production crew here in new york, it's goodbye, as we leave you with more footage from the talking movies vault. # you can see all the stars as you walk down hollywood boulevard.

hello. it has certainly been a cloudy day for most parts of the uk today. the cloud has been quite low in places, with mist and hill fog. out and about, that was the scene

early on in the day, in derbyshire, showing a stag emerging from the murky weather. over the tops of the hills, a bit of snow there lying on the ground. now, we have seen a number of showers, as well, falling from that thick cloud. most of them have been across western and southern parts of the uk, with a lot of dry weather elsewhere. now, through this evening, and overnight, there will be some gaps in the cloud, and the most likely places to see those gaps will be eastern scotland, running into parts of eastern england. where we see those clear skies, there is barely a breath of wind outside, so we are going to see a frost set in. temperatures in towns and cities down to —2 or so, but it will be much colder than that in the countryside. elsewhere, we will continue with a lots of cloud, so a largely frost free night, it will be quite murky over the hills. here is the weather chart for sunday. we have got a cold front moving into that cold air, to the north—west of the uk. outbreaks of rain will probably turn to snow for a time, in the highlands of scotland, particularly above 200 metres elevation. before that, a mixture of rain and hill snow slowly pushes southwards,

with brighter skies following later on in the day. early morning rain clearing away from northern ireland, here too we should see an improvement with the weather, with some sunshine, probably more sunshine to go round across east anglia, south east england and perhaps east midlands, during sunday compared with today. we will still have rather cloudy weather from northern western areas of england and wales, with afternoon spots of rain getting in from that weak weather front. for most of us, it was they quite chilly, temperatures around five or six celsius, particularly north or east. 0ut west not too bad, eight degrees in plymouth and for belfast. here's the weather chart for monday. we could well see a sharp frost again, when we keep this clear skies across the eastern areas. 0therwise, quite a bit of cloud, and you will notice a more active weather front is swinging in off the atlantic. this is going to be bringing some rain to northern ireland and scotland, perhaps a bit of snow over the highest hills, as well. temperature—wise, we are looking at highs of around five or6 degrees, again, on the cool side for the time of year. then, as we go through monday evening, night and into tuesday,

our weather front pushes eastwards. now, depending how quickly it pushes eastwards, and how quickly it occludes, we could well see a spell of snow, but there is a lot of uncertainty about that just at the moment. this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 5pm: the former prime minister, sirjohn major, says the house of commons should be given a vote on all brexit options. while labour's sir keir starmer calls for the prime minister to negotiate for a customs union or consider another eu referendum. if we cannot get a general election, labour must support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote. that was our commitment. police investigating the death of 14—year—old jaden moodie arrest an 18—year—old man on suspicion of murder. the body representing gps says there's a "shocking" variation in their availability in different parts of england. the actor windsor davies has died at the age of 88. you enjoying your tea, gunner?

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