{"id":1369,"date":"2007-09-06T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/09\/restricted-trailers-for-pg-13-movies\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T19:39:00","slug":"restricted-trailers-for-pg-13-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/09\/restricted-trailers-for-pg-13-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Restricted trailers for PG-13 movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RuC88ikjELI\/AAAAAAAAAhE\/JD7vjz_eXkQ\/s1600-h\/beowulf-trailer-grab.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RuC88ikjELI\/AAAAAAAAAhE\/JD7vjz_eXkQ\/s400\/beowulf-trailer-grab.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/restricted-content-is-restricted-to.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Restricted trailers<\/a> are popping up all over the internet these days \u2026 but the strangest have to be the ads for Robert Zemeckis\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/newsbites-beowulf-watership-alpha-etc.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Beowulf<\/a><\/i>.  Why are they strange?  Because the makers of that film have already said that they are aiming for a PG-13 rating.  So why would they raise the R-rated hopes of potential moviegoers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rumour has it that there might be an R or NC-17 version for IMAX theatres, but as far as I can tell, those are just rumours.<\/p>\n<p>And of course there\u2019s always the possibility \u2014 even probability \u2014 of an \u201cunrated\u201d DVD, but why would they advertise the DVD months before the movie has had a chance to play in theatres?<\/p>\n<p>I have been idly wondering about this for a while, but it only came to the fore today after reading various posts on the subject at <a href=\"http:\/\/screenrant.com\/archives\/beowulf-rrated-trailer-for-a-p-985.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">ScreenRant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviemarketingmadness.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/good-questions-an-r-rated-trailer-for-a-pg-13-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Movie Marketing Madness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ropeofsilicon.com\/news.php?id=7108\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">RopeOfSilicon.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themovieblog.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/beowulf_restricted_trailer_for_a_pg_movie.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Movie Blog<\/a>.  Check \u2019em out, and the comments as well.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restricted trailers are popping up all over the internet these days \u2026 but the strangest have to be the ads for Robert Zemeckis\u2019s Beowulf. Why are they strange? Because the makers of that film have already said that they are aiming for a PG-13 rating. So why would they raise the R-rated hopes of potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Restricted trailers for PG-13 movies?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Restricted trailers are popping up all over the internet these days ... but the strangest have to be the ads for Robert Zemeckis&#039;s Beowulf. 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