‘The Hobbit’, the Coens’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ and Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’ in Today’s Batch of MPAA Ratings
By
Brad Brevet
The MPAA took a week off to celebrate Thanksgiving, but they have returned with a load of new ratings, and two in particular worthy of noting.
First for the one we knew was coming, which is the PG-13 for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I saw it earlier today and the rating for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence and frightening images seems about appropriate. That is, unless they wanted to mention a be-heading or two and troll snot, but whatever.
The two I am more specifically interested in first begins with the R-rating for Joel and Ethan Coen‘s Inside Llewyn Davis, which is still without a distributor, but can at least now claim an R-rating for language including some sexual references. Maybe this one will end up on sale at Cannes in 2013 seeing how we already know it won’t be showing up at Sundance.
And then, remember Trance? The film Danny Boyle got to working on with Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel and James McAvoy before the Olympics? Well, it’s edited, turned in and ready for the big screen with an R-rating for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence, some grisly images, and language. Fox is looking at a potential March 2013 release, but that is not yet official.