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Military Wives cut in the US for an MPAA PG-13 rating
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| 12th February 2020
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Military Wives is a 2019 UK comedy drama by Peter Cattaneo. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Emma Lowndes.
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs,
the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.
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the US the film was originally rated R by the MPAA for brief language and a sexual reference. The distributors appealed hoping for a PG-13 rating, but did not win their case. Instead they edited the film to achieve an MPAA PG-13 rating
for some strong language and sexual references. For comparison the BBFC gave the film a 12A rating for infrequent strong language, moderate sex references. |
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Screen writer confirms rumours that the first submission to the MPAA was indeed R rated
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| 1st February 2020
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| See article from screenrant.com : |
Scooby-Doo is a 2002 USA / Australia comedy mystery adventure by Raja Gosnell. Starring Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
The Mystery Inc. gang have gone their separate ways and
have been apart for two years, until they each receive an invitation to Spooky Island. Not knowing that the others have also been invited, they show up and discover an amusement park that affects young visitors in very strange ways. Fred, Daphne, Velma,
Shaggy and Scooby soon realize that they cannot solve this mystery without help from each other.
Screenwriter James Gunn has confirmed that a lesbian kiss was filmed but was cut from the final edit. He also commented on a submission
that was indeed MPAA R rated. See article from screenrant.com : Gunn answered a fan's question on Twitter about an eventual
release of the R-rated Scooby-Doo , and shed some light on how the whole rating fiasco went down. Gunn confirms that the film was originally rated R by the MPAA, but that he never set out to write an adult movie. Apparently, the harsh rating was because
of one stupid joke the MPAA misinterpreted. The film eventually earned a PG-13 from the ratings board, but by then a successful test screening skewed the film's target demo to a younger audience. This led to a third PR rated cut of the film removing
material such as language, cleavage, and sexual situations - including a same-sex kiss between Daphne and Velma. Gunn tweeted: Yes, the first MPAA rating was R, but it was only because of one stupid joke the MPAA
misinterpreted. The movie was originally meant to be PG-13 & was cut down to PG after like 3 parents were outraged at a test screening in Sacramento. The studio decided to go a more family friendly route.
Language and jokes and sexual situations were removed, including a kiss between Daphne and Velma. Cleavage was CGI'd over. But, thankfully, the farting remained. I thought at the time the rating change was a
mistake. I felt like a lot of teens came out for the first film and didn't get what they wanted (and didn't come back for the sequel). But today I don't know. So many young kids loved those movies, which is pretty cool. Also, for
the record I doubt any of those old cuts still exist.
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US distributors are appealing against an MPAA R rating
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| 15th January 2020
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| See MPAA ratings bulletin [pdf] from filmratings.com
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Military Wives is a 2019 UK comedy drama by Peter Cattaneo. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Emma Lowndes.
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs,
the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.
In
the US the film was rated R by the MPAA for brief language and a sexual reference. The distributors are now appealing the decision presumably hoping for a PG-13 rating. For comparison the BBFC gave the film a 12A rating for infrequent
strong language, moderate sex references. |
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The director of Joker speaks of a weird bathtub scene that had to be cut for an MPAA R rating
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| 11th November 2019
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| See article from heroichollywood.com |
Joker is a 2019 USA crime thriller by Todd Phillips. Starring Robert De Niro, Joaquin Phoenix and Marc Maron.
Joker centers around an origin of the iconic arch
nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. Todd Phillips' exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.
While speaking at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Joker director Todd Phillips explained that there were a few scenes that he had to cut, the most notable of which was a scene had Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck doing something bizarre
while inside a bathtub. Phillips suggested that the scene that was removed is not sexually explicit in nature, but is simply too bizarre for a standard R-rated movie to handle. He spoke in vague terms at the film festival:
So the other thing that's great about Joaquin is that he's always up to try things -- the fridge was one of those. It wasn't in the script it was something that Joaquin just kind of did and there was a few others, there's only one
other that's in the movie and it's when he's laughing after he goes to [Zazie Beetz's] apartment and he comes back down the hall and he's laughing alone in that living room, that was another one... There were two or three others
we shot, one that is amazing in a bathtub, but I don't think we can actually include it in an R-rated movie and it's not because it was pornographic, it was just insane. |
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