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PTC Calls The MPAA’s ‘Check The Box’ Campaign An “Empty Gesture”

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 2:58pm PDTTags: MPAA, MPAA Ratings, MPAA Ratings Board, Parents Television Council, PTC

While the Parents Television Council’s view is no surprise, the activist group made it forcefully this week in a letter to MPAA chief Chris Dodd calling for meaningful changes in the movie ratings system and its treatment of on-screen violence. The “Check The Box” initiative that Dodd unveiled at last month’s CinemaCon confab changes movie ratings labeling to help people see the specific rationale — for example whether a PG-13 or R-rated film received the designation due to its use of profanity, nudity, smoking, drug use, or violence. PTC says that just gives studios “the appearance of doing something about media violence without actually doing anything at all.” The MPAA can “keep rating violent movies PG-13″ which means studios can “market those violent films to kids … PG-13 films run the gamut from Les Miserables to Drag Me To Hell. And because it applies to everything, in practice, it means nothing.” READ MORE »

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MPAA Gives Oscar Fave ‘The King’s Speech’ PG-13 Rating For Removing 2 Swear Words

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday February 25, 2011 @ 2:36pm PSTTags: Movie Ratings, Movie Ratings Dispute, Movies, MPAA, MPAA Ratings, The King's Speech, The King's Speech Rating, The Weinstein Co

Everyone is hungry to horn in on the glitz and glamor of the 83rd Academy Awards. Even the Motion Picture Association of America which first went to the media to announce it was giving a PG-13 rating to a slightly … Read More »

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David Schwimmer Laments That MPAA R Rating Breaches ‘Trust’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday December 17, 2010 @ 3:16pm PSTTags: David Schwimmer, David Schwimmer Trust, Millennium Entertainment, Movies, MPAA Ratings, Trust R Rating
Mike Fleming

David Schwimmer tells me that whether Millennium Entertainment is successful or not in overturning the R rating that the MPAA has given his upcoming film Trust, he will not alter the scenes that prompted the rating on a film about … Read More »

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Weinsteins Hire Legal Pitbulls David Boies And Bert Fields For Ratings War With MPAA

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 7:41am PSTTags: Alan R. Friedman, Bert Fields, Blue Valentine Rating, David Boies, Harvey Weinstein, Movie Ratings, Movie Ratings Dispute, Movies, MPAA Ratings, The King's Speech Rating, The Weinstein Co
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES, CA (November 18, 2010) – In response to the ratings given to two of its upcoming films, The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has engaged a formidable legal team to challenge the NC-17 rating for BLUE VALENTINE and the R rating for THE KING’S SPEECH given by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), according to TWC Co-Chair Harvey Weinstein.

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