don’t have the same commercial prospects as an R-rated film. The MPAA Ratings Board governs the ratings without much transparency for filmmakers who are left to navigate the seemingly arbitrary ...

In the eyes of many filmmakers, the Motion Picture Assn. of America should be rated R — for reticent. The MPAA has long kept its rating methods a tightly guarded secret as it continues to wield ...

while more realistic violence gets an R rating.) Some filmmakers also feel that the MPAA, which represents the concerns of the major movie studios, is harsher and less helpful to independent ...

The MPAA, whose members are the major Hollywood ... previously known as “X.” The R-rated domination has been consistent across the years, including after the PG-13 rating was added in 1984 ...

post-apocalyptic teen-genocide film makes no sense given the 'R' rating the MPAA slapped on the Weinstein Company-distributed "Bully," a documentary about bullying among children — a very real ...

the Motion Picture Association upheld the R rating received by the movie "Trust." The MPAA rarely overturns ratings decision, but the "Trust" filmmakers had hoped to get a PG-13 rating so the ...

Says Harvey Weinstein: "The fact that an R rating would prevent high school students from seeing this film would truly be a travesty." By Tatiana Siegel The Weinstein Co. will challenge the MPAA ...

The Weinstein Co won its appeal of the MPAA‘s rating for Blue Valentine ... LOS ANGELES — The Classification and Rating Appeals Board today upheld the R rating given to the movie Bully.

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“Trust” received its R rating for “disturbing material involving the rape of a teen, language, sexual content and some violence,” as stated in the film’s rating description from the MPAA.

Movie ratings are often ridiculous, but this year the MPAA might have gone too far. Love Is Strange, a quiet story about an elderly gay couple who face homelessness, received an R rating.