In July 2019, TV-14 rated Stranger Things' latest season debuted on Netflix with smoking and tobacco brands throughout. After widespread criticism, Netflix pledged to keep smoking out of its future kid-rated original movies and TV shows — but it has never put the policy on paper.
Now, Netflix's policy will be tested by a new TV series it just...
In the first two weeks of June 2020, the Smokefree Movies R-rating petition more than doubled the number of signers from 16,000 to 38,000.
The public petition demands an R-rating...
Streaming technologies have exploded Hollywood's old business models. The COVID-19 pandemic, as of spring 2020, has halted studio production and distribution in the US and Europe.
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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) today issued this age-rating for a home video release:
SUPERMAN: MAN OF TOMORROW — Rated PG-13 for violence, some bloody...
In the first month of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, in March 2020, the US audience for streaming (VOD) channels grew by 50-60%,...
Working with colleagues at New Delhi's HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) and WHO, we just published a paper in Tobacco Control:...
The Walt Disney Company has kept its kid-rated movie and TV shows practically smokefree since 2016. But up to now, Disney has not made...
1) Of the eighteen movies listed for Oscars in major categories this year, how many include smoking?
A. 60 percent
B. 78 percent
C. 86 percent
D. 94 percent
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