It looks like the ratings on movie trailers will not only apply online now. You just might get to see “redband” trailers in your local theaters before the film.
Yahoo’s Caves echo:
In a move that will allow movie studios to inject racy jokes into the trailers they use to promote their more adult-oriented films, the nation’s largest theater chain has decided to permit restricted, “red band” trailers in its multiplexes.
The move by Regal Entertainment Group, which operates 6,388 screens in 39 states and the District of Columbia, likely will lead to similar decisions at a number of the nation’s other major chains.
For those of you who do not know, the “Redband Trailer” is a rating given to movie trailers that have content that requires a warning before hand – Language, Nudity, Violence. All those good things we miss at church. Last week, we posted the Redband trailer for Pathology and there was significant boobies in it.
I personally have no problem with this. Clearly they will only be showing these Redband trailers as a preface to rated R films, so it doesn’t really offend the people viewing the movie. If you plan to watch a movie with boobies, cussing and violence in it, will you be offended if the trailers have hints of the same?
The PTA would go postal if they decided to start showing Redband trailers before Disney movies, and it makes sense that they dont.
With the Redband trailers so readily available online anyways, was this already too long coming? Or is it simply the right time to bring them back to the theater?
