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Virginia struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage in 1967, and the Hays Code was replaced with the MPAA ratings system the following year. This new system was not based on the Hays Code’s moral values, but based on the content itself.

In case you were wondering about the MPAA rating of IT, the big screen remake of the 1990 miniseries which was itself an adaptation of the Stephen King novel of 1986, the official word is that it is rated “R.” The score is due to “violence/horror ...

The MPAA and RIAA have made their positions clear in submissions to the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations. Both want allies Canada and Mexico to commit to tightened copyright law, including restrictions on safe harbor provisions that go ...

We were really trying to take a different approach and achieve intensity in a different way.” The film has received a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, which threw a curveball to some fans hoping a Nolan war film would be earn an R rating. Nolan’s focus on ...

We’ve known for a good while now that New Line Cinema was aiming for an R-rating for its Stephen King adaptation It, but now it has been made official by the MPAA, who have classified the hotly-anticipated film as an R for “violence/horror, bloody ...

Sen. Orrin Hatch worked on legislature separate from all of the health care debates by working on the content filtering project Wednesday, writing a letter urging the MPAA to allow filtering on streaming services. Hatch is the author of the 2005 Family ...

Confirming that Andrés Muschietti hasn’t skimped out on the horrific, violent, clown-filled-carnage of his source material for his upcoming movie It, the MPAA issued the movie an R-rating today, for “violence/horror, bloody images, and for language.”

Running time: 113 minutes. Three stars out of four. MPAA Definition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

Running time: 142 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four. MPAA Definition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

Sen. Orrin Hatch waded into the controversy around content filtering on Wednesday, writing a letter urging the MPAA to allow filtering on streaming services. Hatch is the author of the 2005 Family Movie Act, which allowed users to filter out sex, violence ...

An MPAA spokesman in Singapore didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. A spokesman for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hong Kong declined to comment. The audit was first reported by Bloomberg News. The audit is scrutinizing ticket sales at a ...

Under the current deal, US studios receive 25% of box office sales. The studios export the movies to the county on a flat fee. A representative for the MPAA did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

The MPAA is understood to have brought in an international firm to review sales of selected films, with the results expected as soon as the third quarter, says Bloomberg, which was the first to report the news. A representative for the MPAA declined to ...

Los Angeles, CA - June 27 2017 - InvestorHub NewsWire - At the request of mega-exhibition chain Regal Entertainment Group, the official remake of the 1963 cult-classic horror film, “Blood Feast,” will be released in a rated version from the MPAA ...

Running time: 94 minutes. Three stars out of four. MPAA definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

The bad news is that to achieve this wider release, the super-gory flick had to be “modestly edited” to get an MPAA approved R rating. “Some markets are unable to screen an unrated film,” said Hannover House CEO, Eric Parkinson. “The decision to ...

Another Canadian lawyer, Howard Knopf, is even more forward in pointing out how this will be abused by Hollywood: I can just see the RIAA and MPAA salivating that the thought of getting global injunctions against Google at an interlocutory hearing from a ...

He cautions not to read too much into the MPAA’s more aggressive posture. “Audits are a regular part of the film and television world in Hollywood and we probably shouldn’t be surprised that they extend to other parts of the world,” he said.

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