The PG-13 Censored Version of "The King's Speech" Bombs at the Box Office

[JamesG]

Will You Take Your Kids to See a PG-13 Version of The King's Speech?
By Monika Bartyzel
Posted Mar 24th 2011


The time has come.

This year's Best Picture Oscar winner, The King's Speech, is heading back to screens in a new, Harvey Weinstein–approved, PG-13 edition.





The Weinstein Company has issued a press release stating that their "family-friendly" version will hit screens on April 1, and will be the only version in theaters.


TWC distribution head Eric Lomis says:

"We are thankful to the MPAA for their wisdom and swift action in approving the release of 'The King's Speech PG-13' release. The action enables those whom it speaks most directly -- young people who are troubled by stuttering bullying and similar trials -- to see it."







Oh, the irony...

We've got a company who was, only a few months ago, battling the MPAA and standing up against its wildly ridiculous decisions.

We've got a film where the method King George VI used to overcome his physically imposed silence -- the way he broke out of vocal shackles -- has been silenced.

And, we've got a press release insinuating that there are legions of kids waiting to see this movie, since any family eager to see it could have gone before, with parental supervision.






And, as filmmaker Edgar Wright tweeted earlier:

"The new f**k-free version of 'The King's Speech' is a PG-13 in the US, while the f**k-filled version is rated 12 in the UK. That's f**ked up."





As we reported last month, this new version has not removed any scenes.

Instead, whenever the King utters the f-bomb as part of his speech therapy, it will be muted.

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/03/24...s-speech-pg13/

[MrCleveland]

Well...on both East and West Coasts and the Rust Belt in America have heard worse and it probably can squeeze-out to a PG-13 Rating...The South Coast, Bible Belt, and Mountain Regions would STILL be a little shocked with the F-Bomb.

[JamesG]

PG-13 King's Speech Bombs at Box Office
By Monika Bartyzel
Posted Apr 4th 2011


The PG-13 version hit screens over the weekend and what a surprise -- masses of little ones did not hit the theaters.

The edited version came in 14th over the weekend, with just over a million bucks. To give that number context, indieWIRE explains that this is "on par with the eighth weekend of the Adam Sandler / Jennifer Aniston rom-com 'Just Go With It.'"




More specifically, the PG-13 version fell 23 percent from last weekend's final appearance of the original R-rated version.

As Movieline states, this "is almost the exact same decline that the R-rated version saw from two weeks ago. True, two weeks ago it was recording 43 percent declines, but the decrease generally starts to level out during the 18th week of release (when they make it that far).

It's impossible to guess exactly how the film would have held up without the PG-13 cut this weekend, but general wisdom suggests that its gross probably wouldn't have been drastically different."





These numbers would lead one to believe that parents just didn't give a crap about the F-bomb and that kids weren't agonizing over being blocked from watching some old Brits chat in period clothing.

What a surprise.

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/04/04...ch-box-office/

[PlayOn]

i personally don't like rated r movies. they're so violent, vulger and gorey, it's rediculous. like, my parents went to take me to see 'resident evil: afterlife' for my birthday last year. everytime a zombie got shot, there's enormous amounts of blood.
just not my thing. it would have to be a movie i REALLY want to see (like tyler perry's 'for colored girls', 'the king's speech *before it became pg-13* among a few others)

[Regulus]

Once I saw two movies in the same day, Oliver and Company which was rated "G" and The Dead Pool, which was rated "R". The Audience of the "G" Movie was about 3 Adults per Child, wheras during the other Movie I was SURROUNDED by Kids! The Theater must had interpreted the "R" Rating as meaning "All Children under 17 must be accompanied by Money!"

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by PlayOn

i personally don't like rated r movies. they're so violent, vulger and gorey, it's rediculous. like, my parents went to take me to see 'resident evil: afterlife' for my birthday last year. everytime a zombie got shot, there's enormous amounts of blood.
just not my thing. it would have to be a movie i REALLY want to see (like tyler perry's 'for colored girls', 'the king's speech *before it became pg-13* among a few others)

Everyone handles things differently, but Resident Evil: Afterlife is not a really gory film. It's more of action-styled or music video-like gore sequences.