‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ Officially Rated NC-17 in Massive MPAA Ratings Update

By Brad Brevet

It was said Sundance Selects might go the unrated route with Cannes Palme d’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Color, but today it was made official the film, which is set to make the rounds on the festival circuit next month will hit theaters on October 25 with an NC-17 rating. The drama is said to have an explicit sex scene that runs for nearly ten minutes, but I’m happy to see Sundance isn’t shying from presenting the original vision in domestic theaters.

Today’s update contains a lot more than that however, including ratings for the troubled production of Keanu Reeves‘ 47 Ronin, a rating for Ain’t Them Bodies Saints which started hitting theaters last weekend and a rating for James Franco‘s As I Lay Dying, which I saw at Cannes (read my review here) but has yet to land a domestic distributor unless Millennium Entertainment plans on handling it themselves.

Several Toronto titles were among the movies rated today including August: Osage County starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, the opening night film The Fifth Estate, the Daniel Radcliffe-starrer Kill Your Darlings, Prisoners and even one I saw at last year’s festival, Great Expectations (read my review here).

Additionally there are ratings for Shane Salerno‘s Salinger documentary and the Idris Elba-starrer Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom.

Check out the full bulletin directly below.

47 Ronin
Rated PG-13 For intense sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images, and thematic elements.
Release Date: December 25, 2013
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Rated R For some violence.
Release Date: August 16, 2013
As I Lay Dying
Rated R For disturbing images, some sexual content and brief nudity.
Release Date: TBA
August: Osage County
Rated R For language including sexual references, and for drug material.
Release Date: December 25, 2013
Blue is the Warmest Color
Rated NC-17 For explicit sexual content.
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Bonnie & Clyde: Justified
Rated PG-13 For some suggestive content.
Broken Faith
Rated R For some violence.
Busted
Rated R For language throughout, some sexual content and violence.
The Fifth Estate
Rated R For language and some violence.
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Gallows Hill
Rated R For bloody horror violence, some nudity and brief language.
Generation Iron
Rated PG-13 For thematic material and brief strong language.
Great Expectations
Rated PG-13 For some violence including disturbing images.
Release Date: October 11, 2013
I’m In Love With A Church Girl
Rated PG For thematic elements, a scene of violence, some suggestive content and brief language.
In Fear
Rated R For some disturbing violent content and terror, and for language.
Kill Your Darlings
Rated R For sexual content, language, drug use and brief violence.
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Rated PG-13 For some intense sequences of violence and disturbing images, sexual content and brief strong language.
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Mighty Mighty Monsters In New Fears Eve
Rated PG For rude humor.
Muscle Shoals
Rated PG For thematic elements, language, smoking and brief partial nudity.
Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear
Rated R For violence and brief drug use.
Prisoners
Rated R For disturbing violent content including torture, and language throughout.
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Salinger
Rated PG-13 For disturbing war images, thematic elements and smoking.
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The Secret Lives Of Dorks
Rated PG-13 For crude and sexual content throughout, and for language.
Brad Brevet

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