Pure Flix isn’t fazed that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is giving their anti-abortion film “Unplanned” an R-rating. “This is why Pure Flix exists: to give a platform to ...

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 ...

R-rated films have made up more than half of all films rated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) since it launched its content rating system 50 years ago, the organization ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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.

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