Every week, moviegoers are polled by a company called CinemaScore to see how they like new movies in theatres. Their opinions are averaged out, and the film is assigned a letter grade. If the movie scores in the A-range, it will likely prove to be at least a decent-sized hit. Movies scored in the B-range … Read more
The Jordan Peele-produced sports horror film Him, starring Marlon Wayans, has received an R rating from the MPA Back in 2022, Get Out, Us, and Nope writer/director Jordan Peele‘s production company Monkeypaw Productions acquired the genre film pitch Goat from writers Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie, the plan being that Peele would be producing Goat as part of Monkeypaw’s overall deal … Read more
Vijay in The Greatest of All Time. (Photo credits: AGS Entertainment) Vijay Thalapathy’s The Greatest of All Time is set for its anticipated release in theaters next month. Following the massive success of his previous film LEO, fans of Thalapathy are eagerly expecting The GOAT to be another blockbuster. Directed by Venkat Prabhu, the film … Read more
Rotten Tomatoes is adding a new rating to their film criticism site — the equivalent of its “Certified Fresh” but for fans and moviegoers instead of film critics. The long-running review aggregator announced today the introduction of its “Verified Hot” badge, which will be bestowed upon films that are popular with the site’s users. According … Read more
Beetlejuice was rated PG (despite a memorable F bomb), but the long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is PG-13 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to director Tim Burton’s 1988 classic Beetlejuice (watch it HERE), has officially received its rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board – and it’s the rating you’ve probably been expecting. While the original film was rated PG, it … Read more
A side note, but not really: In 1990, thanks to the release of Philip Kaufman’s Henry Miller-Anias Nin biopic “Henry and June,” another MPAA rating was added, the NC-17. This meant no children under 17 were admitted at all unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. This was mainly about sex, although violence was also taken into … Read more
The Faces of Death remake, from the creative team behind the Netflix release Cam, has earned an R rating from the MPA A year ago, Legendary Entertainment’s remake of the infamous 1978 box office hit Faces of Death (get it HERE) went into production in Louisiana, with Barbie Ferreira of the HBO series Euphoria, Dacre Montgomery of Netflix’s Stranger Things, Josie … Read more
The Sydney Sweeney horror film Immaculate, which reaches theatres next month, has earned an R rating for bloody content and nudity The Motion Picture Association ratings board gave Zack Snyder’s sci-fi war film Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver and the Blumhouse horror production Imaginary PG-13 ratings this week, but they also sat through a … Read more
Set to hit theaters sometime in 2024, the upcoming political slasher film Founders Day has received an official “R” rating from the Motion Picture Association (via Bloody Disgusting) due to its “strong bloody violence, language, and some sexual references.” The forthcoming feature hails from Dark Sky Films and is directed and written by Erik Bloomquist … Read more
The Home, a horror film directed by The Purge creator James DeMonaco and starring Pete Davidson, has earned an R rating While we continue to wait to hear if The Purge franchise creator James DeMonaco is going to have the opportunity to make The Purge 6 (last we heard, he was sounding confident that the sequel is going to happen), … Read more