Harvey Weinstein never met a ratings controversy that he couldn't massage into a publicity campaign.
Regal Cinemas, the largest theater chain in the country, will play the unrated documentary "Bully" in its theaters, the company announced today.
Kareen Wynter takes a look at "Bully," a movie which hopes to help teens if only they can get their "R" rating lowered.
"Bully," the controversial documentary that was handcuffed with an R rating by the MPAA, will be released in theaters as an unrated film, The Weinstein Company announced today.
The British Board of Film Classification has mandated that seven seconds of cuts be made for the U.K. distribution of "The Hunger Games" in order for the film to receive a 12A rating (the British equivalent of the MPAA's PG-13).
The battle over "Bully's" R rating rages on.
The pivotal sex scene in the new "Twilight" film, "Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" is so steamy that the MPAA originally gave the film an R rating, according to its star Kristen Stewart, who says even she was shocked by what her character does between the sheets.
In the same way Hispanics have become an important political voice, so it goes with Hollywood and moviegoing.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), with the cooperation of Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, has quietly shuttered 12 torrent websites in the U.S. and at least 39 sites abroad by filing copyright violation complaints with the sites' hosting providers.
Hollywood and India's Bollywood have signed a historic cooperation pact that will have the world's two leading film industries working together in areas from production to distribution to content protection.
Producers of Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" have made good on a promise to file copyright lawsuits against people who illegally shared the movie via peer-to-peer networks.
When it comes to movies, it may be that sex doesn't sell.
A birthday celebration that culminated in a trip to catch the blockbuster movie "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" could land 22-year-old Samantha Tumpach in prison for three years.
Positive piracy?
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CNN's Neil Curry talks to file-sharing guru and member of the European Parliament Christian Engstrom about video piracy.
With his navy blue suit jacket and gray-tinged hair, Christian Engstrom barely stands out from the sea of delegates seated in the European parliament.
Blockbuster movies are less likely to portray smokers than they have in the past, according to a new study. What's more, this decline in on-screen smoking may have occurred in tandem with a drop in the number of adolescents who have lit up in real life.
Smoking in youth-rated movies has not declined despite a pledge two years ago by Hollywood studios to encourage producers to show less "gratuitous smoking," according to an anti-smoking group.
When the highly anticipated movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" opened Friday in theaters, many fans had already seen it.
If mention of The Pirate Bay conjures up images of parrots, peg legs and planks, or geeky jargon like BitTorrent and jailbreak leaves you all at sea, this handy A-Z will help you navigate the choppy waters of the online piracy debate.
A verdict is expected in a copyright battle between movie studios and Internet pirates. CNN's Neil Curry reports.
Four men behind a Swedish file-sharing Web site used by millions to exchange movies and music have been found guilty of collaborating to violate copyright law in a landmark court verdict in Stockholm.
The founders of a Swedish file-sharing Web site could face jail time and multimillion-dollar fines if convicted of copyright infringement.
"It's like a Ferrari without a paint job," the star says of the work print that hit the Web
Someone stole an "incomplete and early version" of the next installment in the blockbuster "X-Men" movie series and posted it on the Internet this week, according to the studio that owns the billion-dollar film franchise.
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is leaked online a full month before its release. CNN's Brooke Anderson reports.
A story surfaced about authorities finding $3 million in cash on a bus bound for Mexico recently. How did they find such a large sum of money hiding on the bus? With a cash-sniffing dog. Wait, dogs can sniff out cash? Specially trained ones can.
Back in my day (a day not long ago, as it turns out), you could go down to the local record shop and plunk down your paper-route money for little disks of plastic that were embedded with the latest sounds of your favorite musical performers.
In the long line of video-game-to-movie transfers, Max Payne scores low
You can't walk within shouting distance of the Pepsi Center here without sighting Ben Affleck, Eva Longoria, Stephen Spielberg or Melissa Etheridge.
A tight credit market prompted Viacom Inc.'s movie-making subsidiary, Paramount Pictures, to drop a deal for $450 million in financing from Deutsche Bank
History shows us that people still go to the movies when the economy is weak. Indiana Jones and Batman are hoping the trend holds this time around
Hollywood's censors think Ang Lee's new movie "Lust, Caution" has too much lust, and they're cautioning moviegoers by branding it with an NC-17 rating.
The first known pirated copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to make it onto the Internet was tracked to a home raided by Australian police Friday, authorities said.
A new movie funding law wants filmmakers to come to the state -- as long as you don't mess with Texas
Jack Valenti, the longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America, died Thursday of complications from a stroke he suffered in March, his family announced. He was 85.
Jack Valenti, who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America for nearly four decades, has suffered a stroke and has been taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, officials said.
Jack Valenti, who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America for nearly four decades, has suffered a stroke and has been taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, officials said.
Not many animals are more emotive than collies: those anxious eyes, the long face, that occasional humanoid smile. This is why Lassie is a legend.
Those who run the White House and Congress make in the low- to mid-six-figures. Those who run the organizations that seek to influence public policy easily can make more -- in some cases far more.
Business 2.0: Friendlier File Sharingupdated: Thu Dec 01 2005 00:01:00
Has Hollywood found a peer-to-peer system it can live with? In December, the erstwhile media-industry migraine known as BitTorrent will unveil a beta version of its online video marketplace with th...
Shortly after Hollywood launched a major offensive against Internet pirates last month, two popular Web sites for stealing movies shut down.
The Motion Picture Association of America on Tuesday has announced a campaign aimed at slowing the illegal downloading of movies off the Internet.
The Motion Picture Association of America announced a new campaign aimed at slowing the illegal downloading of movies off the Internet.
Can the Supreme Court help Hollywood put an evil genie back in the bottle?
A evil genie that pops out of a bottle sounds like Hollywood fiction. But for the movie industry, the specter is not fantasy -- it's real.
The Motion Picture Association of America is set to follow the lead of the music industry and start filing lawsuits against individuals who it charges are illegally trading digital copies of movies, according to a published report.
Business 2.0: Meet Mr. Hollywoodupdated: Wed Sep 01 2004 00:01:00
When Dan Glickman takes the reins as the new president and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America on Sept. 1, he'll have some big Ferragamos to fill. His predecessor, Jack Val...
showbuzzupdated: Tue Aug 03 2004 13:54:00
Going behind the music isn't enough when it comes to Michael Jackson -- an entire film is needed.
Every week a handful of my students arrive to class late and disrupt the discussion as they jostle their way to their seats. Or they come and go during the session, to get coffee or take phone call...
Cinemas in Britain are resorting to extreme measures in a bid to stamp out piracy that costs the movie industry billions of dollars a year.
The trade group for the major movie studios is considering following the legal path of the record companies by suing people for illegally downloading copyrighted materials, according to a published report.
On a recent Saturday night, I punched in the code to enter the offices of a friend's startup in San Francisco. It was dark, so I stumbled through the maze of cubicles toward a bright light across t...
TWO YEARS AGO in Milan, a squad of court officers and lawyers burst into the gloomy headquarters of Montedison, Italy's chemical giant. Sweeping through the building, they ordered employees at comp...
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