The Weinstein Company, which has had a complicated history with the Motion Picture Association of America in recent years, is threatening to leave the MPAA, a group that lobbies Washington and issues ratings. Harvey Weinstein’s company lost its appeal to knock the rating of forthcoming documentary Bully, about high-school brutality, from R to PG-13. Read More
"We do have an asset that most people don’t have: the power and glamour of entertainment and film," Motion Picture Association of America Chief Executive Dan Glickman told the Los Angeles Times. "We might as well use it." Mr. Glickman was discussing an exclusive movie theater, located within blocks of the White House, which Read More
As the architect Mies van der Rohe once famously observed, “God is in the details.” But thanks to a recent decision by the Motion Picture Association of America, it now appears that God is widening his focus and getting involved with movie ratings.
No, this isn’t a case of the Almighty asking for script rewrites. Read More
As the architect Mies van der Rohe once famously observed, “God is in the details.” But thanks to a recent decision by the Motion Picture Association of America, it now appears that God is widening his focus and getting involved with movie ratings.
No, this isn’t a case of the Almighty asking for script Read More
On Sept. 27, film producer Ted Hope was on the phone with distributor New Line Pictures talking about the Academy Awards campaign for American Splendor, which he had produced. “They said, ‘Well, it’s going to be much different this year,’” Mr. Hope recalled in a nasally, New England–inflected accent, from his Tribeca office. “Because they”–the Read More
On Sept. 27, film producer Ted Hope was on the phone with distributor New Line Pictures talking about the Academy Awards campaign for American Splendor , which he had produced. “They said, ‘Well, it’s going to be much different this year,’” Mr. Hope recalled in a nasally, New England–inflected accent, from his Tribeca office. “Because Read More
