While the filmmakers were certain they were making a PG-13 film, the MPAA has informed them that it will, in fact, be rated R unless all scenes of abortions are removed or altered. The filmmakers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Still, the only appeal for a 2012 film from an MPAA member, 20th Century Fox’s R-rated “This Means War,” did not succeed. Besides “Haywire,” “Bully,” “Killer Joe,” “Sea Level ...

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 ...

A spokesman for the MPAA told TheWrap: “The descriptor that accompanies the film’s rating notes that it is rated R for language – as is any film that includes the same level of strong ...

“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.

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.