The FTC recruited 13- to 16-year-olds, unaccompanied by a parent, to attempt to buy R-rated movie tickets, R-rated movie DVDs, unrated DVDs of movies that were R-rated when first released in theaters, music CDs carrying a Parental Advisory Label (PAL) that warns of explicit content, and video games rated M that may be suitable for persons age 17 and older.
This continued improvement and upward trend is at an all-time high for the video game industry and exceeds every other entertainment format, including sales of music with parental-advisory labels, R-rated movie tickets, and R-rated and unrated DVDs.
President Clinton used Washington's most recognizable set, the White House, to announce that most cinema owners had agreed to require young people to show photo IDs when they ask for tickets to R-rated movies (an R rating means those under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian).
The only open question is whether the word of mouth swearing its the most gruesome and stomach-churning R-rated horror film in recent memory helps or hinders word of mouth.
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It should be noted, however, that MacFarlane's "Ted" recently broke a box office record: The flick about a teddy bear that comes to life has surpassed "The Hangover" as the highest-grossing non-sequel R-rated comedy worldwide.
Scenes of smoking have become increasingly rare in non-R-rated movies, according to the MPAA. Of the movies portraying smoking in recent years, 72% were rated R, 21% were rated PG-13, and 6% were rated PG.
Thirty-eight percent of shoppers purchased R-rated DVDs, compared to 54 percent in 2009.
Smoking in PG-13 films -- including background shots and other passing instances -- was just as strongly linked with real-world experimentation as the smoking in R-rated films.
One-third of underage shoppers bought a ticket to an R-rated movie, up slightly from 28 percent in 2009.
The Jets edition of "Hard Knocks" was foul-mouthed, unapologetic and often irresistible, and the R-rated club went right back out and reached the AFC championship again.
That company doesn't link its family-friendly name with Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Pictures, its R-rated film labels.
Nothing prepared me for this movie's astonishing energy and R-rated violence, or its bold, exuberant humor.
Those are extraordinary home video numbers for an R-rated movie that's in a foreign language and features graphic violence.
See for yourself, the trailer reveals some PG sparkle from this R-rated rom-com.
R-rated action films, which mean under-17s require an accompanying parent or adult guardian, have not fared so well in 2013.
Director Noah Baumbach's new film "Frances Ha" (Friday), a highbrow R-rated comedy, caused a sensation on the film-festival circuit last fall.
The comparable figure for R-rated movies was 33%, a statistically negligible difference.
On the home video front, retailers of R-rated and unrated DVDs demonstrated meaningful improvement in ratings enforcement, but there is room for more.
Mr. McGreevy took his pitch to Netflix, with the conditions that he would write the series and be an executive producer, and that the R-rated content would remain.
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In theory, members of the National Association of Theater Owners agree not to sell tickets to R-rated films to those under 17, unless accompanied by the proverbial parent or adult guardian.
The weekend's other new wide release, Sylvester Stallone's R-rated action vehicle Bullet to the Head, got off to an even worse start than Arnold Schrwazenegger's The Last Stand did two weeks ago.
If R-rated movies tell us that kids should probably not see that film, it takes all of two seconds to learn that an M-rating means that kids should probably not play that game.
The timing for a primed, pumped, itchy-trigger-finger shoot-em-up leaves something to be desired, no doubt, but with Nicolas Cage unaccountably AWOL this January, Arnie has the knucklehead R-rated action field pretty much to himself.
With a combo of R-rated swagger and a therapist's gift for self-esteem polishing, Ryan convinced grown men that "play like a Jet" didn't mean getting mathematically eliminated in Week 7, and transformed a forlorn franchise into a non-joke contender.
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The hype has been helped in no small part by controversy around the R-rated film's excessive violence and language, much of which is doled out by actress Chloe Grace Moretz, who was 11 when she played the role of Hit Girl.
In an interview with Deadline Hollywood today, Del Toro said that he wanted the movie to be R rated while Universal was pushing for PG-13.
Their film "The King's Speech, " the fascinating personal and historical story of George VI's work with a therapist to overcome a stutter, was rated R because of one scene involving use of the f-word.
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