Director KEVIN SMITH (CLERKS) has been in quite some trouble with the MPAA for some weeks now. The MPAA is responsible for the movie ratings in the United States. After a first screening of SMITHS new movie ZACK & MIRI MAKE A PORNO, the MPAA rated the movie with NC-17, which could have been desastrous for the movies Box Office takings. NC-17 means, that anyone younger than 17 is not allowed to watch the movie. With an R rating, those under 17 can see it in the company of an adult.
In the past weeks SMITH had to recut several parts of the movie and yesterday was the day that KEVIN SMITH and producer SCOTT MOSIER were set for the MPAA’s appeal screening, in which they had the chance to watch the movie with a select audience of members, then make a verbal appeal for the film's "R" rating. As we know by now, SMITH and MOSIER won the appeal and "PORNO" will indeed be R-Rated.
More on this here.
And the DVD will hopefully be NC-17, if you know what I mean...
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7. August 2008 um 17:54
Hope his new movie gets the success he deserves, but for the dvd you are absolute right. I love the DVDs from him and i hope they will release the same good version of it in germany as in the usa, if not im going to import it ;).7. August 2008 um 18:26Maybe they use the uncut version in German cinemas. I bet they don't but I won't give up hope before it's decided. I'm looking forward to this movie. When I first the trailer I was laughing really, really heard. But I guess for a movie with such a limited budget (imdb says $25m) it's not that hard to be successful. Even if it flops at the box office these kinds of movies have good DVD sales mpost of the time.7. August 2008 um 20:19I would say all of his flicks on DVD are more succesfull as his flicks in theaters.
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