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MPAA Report 2018: Women Represent 51% of Moviegoers, 47% of Ticket Buyers
The MPAA’s annual study of the theatrical and home entertainment market environment is here, and it once again shows that women represent large shares, or even majorities, of movie and...
Kelly McMahon Is the MPAA’s Next Ratings Chair, Joan Graves Retiring
The MPAA has named a new chair of the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA), the group that assigns film ratings. Deadline confirms that Kelly McMahon will succeed Joan Graves, who is...
Women Make Up Half the Movie Audience and Other Takeaways from the 2015 MPAA Report
The film world is in that lovely city of Las Vegas this week participating in its annual orgy of excess known as CinemaCon. This is when the major studios tout their upcoming big-budget movies and...
Feminist Filmmaking Means NC-17 Rating from MPAA
Director Jill Soloway gave a wonderfully insightful interview to Flavorwire yesterday about the crude double standards at work at the MPAA. Soloway directed this year’s Afternoon Delight, a story...
Study: PG-13 Movies Have More Gun Violence than R-Rated Ones; Sex Still Taboo
On the heels of yesterday’s story about Judi Dench and Harvey Weinstein’s battle against the logo-phobic pearl-clutchers at the MPAA comes another example of the rating board’s skewed...
Judi Dench takes on the MPAA for ‘Philomena’
In the superb upcoming drama Philomena, where an elderly woman embarks on atrans-Atlantic search for a son who was adopted against her will fifty years previously, star Judi Dench doesn’t kill...
Mr. Dodd Goes to Las Vegas
Chris Dodd, former Senator from Connecticut, took over as Hollywood’s chief lobbyist as the head of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) about 10 days ago. Keep in mind that the former...
Who Goes to the Movies? Moviegoers Stats from 2010
The annual look at who went to the movies from the MPAA has been released. Here are the relevant stats. Women and men go to the movies in equal numbers. In 2010 women bought 50% of the tickets and...
Winter’s Bone
Winter’s Bone is by far the best film this year, and while that might not be saying much this being June, any film coming in the fall had better be really, really good cause it’s going to be hard...
Guess What? Women Buy More Movie Tickets Than Men
You know that whole conversation about how women don’t go to the movies and are not a film market? You know that conversation that we hear over and over as the big reason why we are inundated with...