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Trade Digital Cinema, http://www.tradedigitalcinema.com, a digital media management company, was recently issued a certificate of compliance with Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) best practices for content security and a Select Vendor rating from KODE Compliance, Inc. The achievement, made possible with the guidance and expertise of KODE, means that Trade Digital Cinema has met the requirements of the MPAA best practices for content security designed to protect media and film...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Flick on the television screen any given moment, a movie will most likely be playing. Log online, there will be a number of other film options. Suffice to say, entertainment is everywhere these days. Interesting enough, researchers recently discovered that young adults who watch many movies with characters who smoke, whether those films are rated R or PG-13, tend to begin smoking. The lead author of the report, Dr. James Sargent,...
NEW YORK, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Weinstein Company (TWC), aided by the guidance and consultation from attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson, announced today that the MPAA has lowered the R rating, given for some language, for BULLY to a PG-13 in time for the film's April 13th expansion to 55 markets. The scene that has been at the forefront of the battle with the MPAA, the intense scene in the film that shows teen Alex Libby being bullied and harassed on a bus, has been...
NEW YORK, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonight at The Paley Center for Media legal powerhouses David Boies and Ted Olson spoke out against the MPAA's R rating of the documentary film BULLY, at a special screening. In front of a high-profile audience including cohost Meryl Streep and legendary activist Billie Jean King, Boies stated, "How ridiculous and unfair and damaging it is to have a film of this power and importance that is being censored by a rating system that has...
NEW YORK, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "BULLY," the highly anticipated anti-bullying documentary (in theaters March 30th), has sparked a protest and now a movement, as a number of major movie stars, theater owners, and Members of Congress have joined forces to protest the film's R rating. In a clear triumph for the film, Gerry Lopez, CEO of AMC Theaters, one of the most prominent theater chains in the world, spoke out against the R-Rating, saying, "To 'automatically default'...
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) The amount of smoking in top-grossing, youth-rated movies has dropped significantly in the past five years, with far larger declines by studios that have published policies to reduce smoking in youth-rated films (those rated G, PG or PG-13), according to a new study published today by...
Attention parents: letting your kids watch R-rated movies could make them as much as three times more likely to take up smoking, according to a new study published in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.The study, which was also the subject of a Monday article by Reuters reporter Lynne Peeples, was completed by a team of Dutch and U.S. researchers, led by Rebecca N. H. de Leeuw of the Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Netherlands.The researchers discovered...
Motion Technology to Debut with Walt Disney Pictures' Tron: Legacy LONGUEUIL, QC, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ - D-BOX Technologies Inc. (DBO.A on the TSX Venture Exchange), a leader in innovative motion technology, announced today its first agreement with Mega((R)) Movies to equip its East Brunswick, New Jersey movie theatre with 26 D-BOX MFX Seats. Mega((R)) Movies is the first location in the state to offer the incredibly immersive motion technology that provides moviegoers a unique...
Internet is not the most common source of x-rated material SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Viewing violent x-rated material may contribute to sexually aggressive behavior among 10-17 year olds. X-rated material without violent content does not appear to have the same impact, finds a new study conducted by Internet Solutions for Kids and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published in Aggressive Behavior, the study is expected to be highly...
Middle-school children whose parents restrict access to R-rated movies are substantially less likely to start drinking than their peers who are allowed to see such films, a new study suggests.In a study of nearly 3,600 New England middle school students, researchers found that among kids who said their parents never allowed them to watch R movies, few took up drinking over the next couple years.Of that group, 3 percent said they had started drinking when questioned 13 to 26 months after the...
