AT&T's purchase of Time Warner may not be complete until 2019, but the phone giant has already set up a new WarnerMedia division under CEO John Stankey to run Warner Bros. and New Line, Warner Bros. Television and HBO. In September 2018,...
Smokefree Movies Blog
Posted: Nov 20, 2018 by jono
Posted: Oct 16, 2018 by jono
A team of US researchers report that forty-four percent of the most popular hip-hop videos between 2013 and 2017 featured smoking or use of vapor products — up from thirty percent of rap videos in 1997.
Brand display in the videos that showed combustible tobacco products grew from zero in 2013 to ten percent five years later. One in four videos showing an electronic product displayed brand names in 2013; by 2017, eighty-eight percent also showed the...
Posted: Sep 4, 2018 by jono
The twenty smokiest producers in Hollywood:
• made 294 top-grossing films with smoking in the past 15 years
• made sure that 70% of these smoking films...
Posted: Aug 29, 2018 by jono
Posted: Aug 22, 2018 by SGlantz
After breezing through the California State Senate, a resolution recommending that Hollywood stop recruiting millions of kids to smoke was smothered in an Assembly Committee on Tuesday — just one vote shy of...
Posted: Aug 16, 2018 by jono
2018’s brightest development, so far, is that half of the studios making up the MPAA—Disney, Sony and Paramount (Viacom)—have kept all their youth-rated films 100 percent smokefree since January. Each company has achieved a smokefree or near-smokefree year before, but this is the first...
Posted: Aug 1, 2018 by jono
Among the hundreds of actors and extras directed to smoke on screen over the past fifteen years, twenty qualify as the smokiest actors in Hollywood.
This small group accounts for more than 130 top-grossing films with smoking — mostly kid-rated PG-13...
Posted: Jul 17, 2018 by SGlantz
Petition has momentum | The MPAA, which runs the film ratings in Hollywood, likes to suggest that parents don't care about tobacco on screen. But the ...
Posted: Jul 3, 2018 by jono
JULY 2, 2018 —In a first for any U.S. legislative body, the California State Senate on a 24-8 vote approved a resolution pressing the state's $11 billion film industry...
Posted: Jun 25, 2018 by SGlantz
On Friday, June 22, MPAA chief Charles Rivkin responded, on deadline, to questions about the R-rating for tobacco raised by seven U.S. Senators on June 4...