Perhaps you are right but I just think studios are self censoring before they even get to the certification process. That’s what I believe is happening today and they are aware of the points that can be racked up that will push a film in to another age bracket.
Perhaps they keep it loose before they decide what can stay and what must go, but it’s so obvious that Studios only want to make big budget pg/13 films.
We used to get big budget 18/x rated films… And I miss them films but I don’t imagine Disney releasing any x rated films any time soon.
Call me old fashioned if you like.
Yesterday I watched a few episodes of Project Greenlight which was sponsored by Miramax and dimension films (formerly part of Disney) and It was an interesting series. Basically they were looking for new talent of screenwriters, Directors. So anyway because the movie that would get made was low budget what sort of film did they decide to make?
A monster horror… which was really gory. But they stated that it was seen as economically viable on a budget of around I think it was 8 million USD. But before the film was 100% finished Dimension films divorced Disney and became the Weinstein Company. The test screenings did not object to the gore that was in the film only that the monster had no origin story but If you watched an earlier episode the origin story of the monster was removed at the request of the studio because of the budget they had set. So they shot themselves in the foot as they were concerned more about making money but essentially tanked the project by cutting the budget and chopping out the most important part of the monster and where it came from. It’s all quite amusing and I think you have to take a hat off to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for objecting to the studios attitude overall because all they were worried about was money nothing more. But essentially that tanked the film and the project.
But for Disney and Star Wars money is not an object, but it absolutely must be a PG rated movie. What gives…
I think the point is the only people who are objecting to gore and violence are the studios themselves rather than the audience. Nudity is a different ball game but still I think it all depends on what film you are trying to make 😃