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In 2000, the Directors Guild of America called the NC-17 rating an "abject failure", for causing filmmakers to re-edit films to receive an R rating, rather than accept an NC-17 rating. They argued that this was "not only compromising filmmakers' visions, but also greatly increasing the likelihood that adult-oriented movies are seen by the very ...
The educational movie ratings, which have since been abolished, were: -7 – Targeted at children younger than 7 years. 7+ – Appropriate for children older than 7 years. 12+ – Appropriate for people 12 years and over. 15+ – Appropriate for people 15 years and over. New content descriptors and icons were added including: Sex; Nudity (Nahota)
A content rating (also known as maturity rating) [1] [2] rates the suitability of TV shows, movies, comic books, or video games to this primary targeted audience. [3] [4] [5] A content rating usually places a media source into one of a number of different categories, to show which age group is suitable to view media and entertainment.
Film critic Dave Kehr—who also uses a 0–4 star scale—believes "two stars is a borderline recommendation". [12] On a five-star scale, regardless of the bottom rating, 3 stars is often the lowest positive rating, though judging on a purely mathematical basis, 2 1/2 stars would be the dividing line between good and bad on a 0–5 scale.
Before 2015, unlike the theatrical ratings, only three are applied to video releases and printed on labels: General Audience (G) for films previously rated G in cinemas, Parental Guidance (PG) for most PG and some R-13 or R-16 titles (with cuts for the R-ratings), and Restricted For Adults (R) for some R-13, many R-16, and most R-18 titles ...
For the first 15 seconds of every rated program lasting a half-hour or less, a large rating icon appears in the upper-left hand corner of the screen; previously this had a common design using a universal icon (a square accompanied by rating text rendered in Franklin Gothic type until August 1997 and Helvetica thereafter), but now often goes ...
Motion picture rating systems are issued to give moviegoers an idea of the suitability of a movie for children and/or adults in terms of issues such as sex, violence and profanity. In some jurisdictions, they may impose legal obligations of refusing the entrance of children or minors to certain movies; in others, while there is no legal ...
The United States pay television content advisory system is a television content rating system developed cooperatively by the American pay television industry; it first went into effect on March 1, 1994, on cable-originated premium channels owned by the system's principal developers, Home Box Office, Inc. and Showtime Networks.