p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA’s NC-17 concerns
p2pnet.net news:- Might a discord develop between ex-MPAA boss Jack Valenti and Dan Glickman, who now runs the Hollywood spin organization?
Valenti helped pioneer the movie rating system and now Glickman is tinkering with it.
In the past three months, Glickman, “has been working to fine-tune the movie-ratings system,” says Variety. “But this week at ShoWest, he will face his biggest hurdle yet: trying to make NC-17 respectable.”
The “awkwardly named” rating was born in 1990 and, “has become synonymous with tainted goods,” says the story.
The biggest complaint, it goes on, is: with parental permission, children and teenagers can watch R-rated releases. The problem? Too many, “hard Rs,” flicks such as the “Saw” and “Hostel” franchises which are so graphic, “no one under the age of 17 should be allowed to see it at all in theaters,” says Variety.
Should there be a new category, or should there be a rating between PG-13 and R?
Glickman, the National Association of Theater Owners’ John Fithian and the Classification & Ratings Administration’s Joan Graves will, “raise the subject of NC-17 when briefing exhibs at ShoWest this week on overall changes being proposed to the ratings system that are designed to make the system more transparent,” the story says.
“Also, the trio are expected to talk about somehow incorporating smoking into the ratings sytem. Watchdog groups have long complained that movies romanticize smoking.”
When Jack Valenti introduced ratings in 1968, it included an X category, “but it eventually became hijacked by the porn business”.
Also See:
Variety - MPAA tries to remove NC-17 stigma, March 10, 2007
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