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American Idol, French Censorship: Trade Roughage 08/02/07

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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  • simon_cowell_on_red_x.jpg The French Commission for Film Classification is looking to extend its jurisdiction to festival films — meaning that it wants to have power to place age restrictions on screenings at Cannes and elsewhere. Apparently, the French censors are super-lenient when it comes to sex, but fairly strict on violence: the only film they’ve limited to audiences 18 and up of late is Saw III. So even if the censors do get their way, all those preteen film festival goers should still be able to get their softcore kicks at Cannes.
  •  John Anderson reviews Stardust: “Sprinkled with tongue-in-cheek humor, fairly adult jokes and some well-known faces acting very silly, this adventure story should have particular appeal to fans of “The Princess Bride,” but in any event will never be mistaken for a strictly-for-kids movie.”
  • Simon Cowell is producing a feature remake of Fame. “We want it to be the musical version of Rocky– an underdog story, a feel-good film.” Then can we just skip ahead to the sixth sequel, where the champion has brain damage but tries to compete again anyway?
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