Posts By: Patrick Corcoran

Word.

NATO’s vice-president and general counsel, Kendrick Macdowell, turns the air blue with his explication of the Classification and Ratings Adminsitration’s language rule in the latest issue of Boxoffice. Misunderstood, often appealed, and utterly appropriate in Macdowell’s thinking, the required “R” rating for two instances of “the F-word,” gives the power of language its due. Cover… Read more »

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Release Date Title Rating Format Distributor 11/30/2007 Aaja Nachle NR Scope Yash Raj Films Awake R Scope MGM Badland R Arcangelo Entertainment The Diving Bell And The Butterfly PG-13 Flat Miramax He Was A Quiet Man NR Mitropoulos Films Protagonist R Flat IFC Films The Rocket (aka Maurice Richard) PG Scope Palm Pictures The Sasquatch… Read more »

CBG narrows digital cinema vendors to four

The Cinema Buying Group, representing more than 8,700 North American movie screens, has narrowed its list of prospective vendors for its digital cinema RFP to four. For this second round, vendors must provide sufficiently detailed cost information which would enable CBG to evaluate the total initial and recurring costs to exhibitors – details that were… Read more »