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Author Topic: Harry Potter and the R-Rated Half-Blood Prince? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-23-2008 05:50 PM                        According to the trailer insert that came with our print of "Marley and Me," the next Potter film is rated R for "some sequences of violence and language." Personally I think it's a misprint. We didn't get the actual trailer so I couldn't check the rating band on the trailer, can anyone verify that the film is actually (probably) rated PG-13?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-23-2008 06:11 PM                     It'd have to be PG-13. An R rated HP would be the dumbest idea of the not-even-here-yet new year.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-23-2008 06:22 PM                     I think Warner Bros. took a fairly serious risk allowing the last two Harry Potter installments to be rated PG-13. Harry Potter isn't G-rated fare, but still the target audience for this stuff is mostly pre-teen kids. I agree it would be beyond astonishingly stupid for the next Harry Potter movie to be made with a R-rated cut. It would even be far more stupid than the toned down PG-13 sequels of movies with R-rated originals.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 12-23-2008 06:25 PM                        Remember the books were written with the increasing age of her children in mind. Therefore they will continue to get deeper and deeper toward R. (X?) Louis  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-23-2008 07:26 PM                     That may be true. However, most kids tend to grow out of the Harry Potter type of thing as they get farther along in their teens. Meanwhile, the children still in elementary school and perhaps middle school remain to be the most valuable demographic in the business of selling Harry Potter books and movies.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-23-2008 08:35 PM                     The MPAA does not have a rating posted on the ratings website yet. Come to think of it, I haven't received a weekly ratings email since July. WTH?  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 12-23-2008 09:20 PM                     Well an R rating would be commercial suicide. I'm sure loads of people already got screwed over by the date change. Is a PG-13 rating for these films really a bad thing? I would have thought cutting out the younger kids from shows that (for us at least) will definitely sell out anyway on opening weekend means a higher average ticket price and more potential impulse food buying customers. Also it's not a leap in to the unknown for the younger children as many will have read the book already.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-23-2008 09:24 PM                     Also, I think it's too soon for it to be rated, I can't imagine it's done yet. Nothing listed at www.cara.org, and the trailer on trailers.apple.com has no rating as of yet. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-23-2008 09:43 PM                     They said the film was done when they decided to not release it. They were going to use the extra time to do some extra cg work  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-23-2008 10:57 PM                        quote: John Hawkinson Also, I think it's too soon for it to be rated, I can't imagine it's done yet. The film is in the can, according to a WB guy in an article I read in Entertainment Weekly. So it could be rated, but I've not been able to find any reference to said rating anywhere, except on the Marley trailer insert, which could very well be mistaken. If it really IS rated R, the headlines should start screaming it any day now.  |  IP: Logged Carey Barber Expert Film Handler Posts: 143 From: Newport News, VA, USA Registered: Jan 2003 posted 12-24-2008 01:34 PM                     Most likely just a typo... Our most recent trailer programming sheet also listed Night at the Museum 2 as R-rated. Obviously, that is not correct.  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 12-24-2008 02:47 PM                        Here's what might have happened: Freddie is typing up the trailer sheet, he shouts down the hall to Jimbo, who has the actual trailers in front of him. FREDDIE Yo, Jimbo! Wus da ratin' on dat new Harripodder treller? JIMBO It's NR! [Not Rated] FREDDIE An "R"? JIMBO Yeah, man, NR! FREDDIE (to himself as he types) OK, it's an "R". (yelling to Freddie) How 'bout Night At Da Museum?! JIMBO Dat's NR, too! FREDDIE "R-2"?! JIMBO No, just NR, man! FREDDIE Okay, an "R".  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-24-2008 05:03 PM                        Good one John. Now who's on first? Jimbo  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-25-2008 05:20 AM                     Yes. Who's on first...and What's on second.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-26-2008 03:48 PM                        Latest UK Half Blood Prince trailers ( 21 Nov 2008) are rated 12A and PG  |  IP: Logged

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