Friday, March 30, 2012

Bully rating

  • When the controversial documentary Bully opens in theaters in New York and Los Angeles today, it will indeed include a rating, just not the traditional MPAA rating that most moviegoers are familiar with.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • A documentary that has been stirring up headlines for weeks finally opens today. Bully, from producer Harvey Weinstein, has made news for its controversial R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.
  • (NPR News)
  • A few weeks ago, we reported on The Weinstein Company's efforts to have the R rated on its new documentary Bully overturned says an increasing number of films are challenging the rating they're given.
  • (Mediabistro.com)
  • popped into my head after I saw "Bully," the timely documentary about school bullying that's riding on a wave of buzz generated by a protracted battle between The Weinstein Company and the MPAA over the film's rating.
  • (TheWrap)
  • the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America insisted on an R rating for the movie "Bully," a documentary about children who are bullied, their tormenters and the adults who let both of them down, because of profanity in the film.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • The upcoming documentary Bully will appear in theaters as unrated after its R rating by the MPAA prompted an online petition signed by hundreds of thousands of people seeking to have the rating downgraded. Bully, which follows five U.S.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • The attention finally being paid to bullying in K-12 schools would seem to assure a wide audience for a documentary about the subject.
  • (Education Week)
  • "Bully" will expand to other theaters in the coming weeks. The film lacks a rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, whose "R" rating recommendation was rejected by the film's backers at The Weinstein Co.
  • (The Business Journal)
  • A controversial movie called Bully is being released without a rating, because the distributor did not agree with the Motion Picture Association of Americas take on the film.
  • (WBIR)
  • When Alex Libby was 12, almost every morning bus ride was a gut-wrenching ordeal. They used to call me names first, he says, describing the commute to East Middle School in Sioux City, Iowa.
  • (KSDK)

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