Updated: According to a pre-sale ticket stub earlier today, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus received it’s MPAA rating. Now, 20th Century Fox has confirmed the rating with an explanation.
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Though The Weinstein Company was prepared to release the film without a rating after receiving an ‘R,’ the MPAA has now granted Bully a PG-13 rating.
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Men in Black 3 has been given a PG-13 certificate by the MPAA for for “sci-fi action violence, and brief suggestive content.”
The MPAA recently went under fire for refusing to lower the rating of Harvey Weinstein documentary Bully from R to PG-13. Now popular movie critic Richard Roeper is calling out the group.
Briefly: Back in February we reported that head honcho of The Weinstein Co. Harvey Weinstein was considering boycotting the MPAA after Bully, one of his documentaries, was given an R-rating by the ratings company. The Weinstein Company has now released a statement saying that the bullying documentary will, in fact, be released “unrated,” following an unsuccessful appeals campaign.
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As a worker at a movie theatre, I have always been fascinated with the movie ratings system. With the release of The Hunger Games so near, reviews are coming in quick and fast.