Film rating

Film rating: Minimum ACCOMPANIED age in theatres?

2008-05-16T12:27:26.0007Z

I don't know if this applies to other countries aswell, but it might...

It's something very special indeed, and it applies only to "FSK 12": movies that where rated "FSK 12" can get "PG" as addition. Children 6+ can then go to cinema with their parents.

This is explained inthe description of "FSK 12", but would be good to see next to "mimimum unaccompanied age"...

Film rating: Minimum ACCOMPANIED age in theatres?

2008-05-15T23:20:16.0007Z

Seems to be a rarity, I think Canada has a strange less than for adult-accompanied age restrictions

See this site for some current rating info worldwide

Film rating: Minimum ACCOMPANIED age in theatres?

2008-05-15T23:07:20.0007Z

Hi Johann -- do you know if this is more universal than just Germany? It would be useful to understand what kinds of variants there might be before extending the model.

Film rating: Minimum ACCOMPANIED age in theatres?

2008-05-15T11:44:19.0005Z

It might make sense to have the possibility for an accompanied age aswell:

e.g. in Germany children aged 6+ are allowed to go to 12+ movies in cinema with their parents, though 5 year olds don't

Film rating: Minimum unaccompanied age?

2008-03-07T22:34:03.0005Z

A "minimum accompanied age" property seems useful here, to allow for comparison between the ratings of different countries and to enable searches like "all films restricted to 13-year-olds and older in any country".

Film rating: Minimum unaccompanied age?

2008-03-07T22:29:25.0012Z

Should we add a property along the lines of "minimum unaccompanied age" to make it easier to see equivalence (or lack thereof) between the ratings of different countries? That would make searches like "all films that got a 13-and-up rating in any jurisdiction" possible.

Film rating: Add Rating Reasons

2008-01-17T21:37:46.0007Z

Unfortunately I know exactly what you mean. I have a lot of experience breaking down the versions/language/subtitle variants and there is no standard, it's pretty much all based on what people order from the studios in different territories.

What the studios use internally are the major versions: Theatrical Edit, Airline Edit, Kuwait Edit, Saudi Edit, and then everything else falls under Special Edit, and each of the preceding has a launguage and subtitle variant that only exist if an order is placed for it. So basically there's the Theatrical English language version with no subtitles that acts as the primary version and everything else stems from that on an as needed basis.

Film rating: Add Rating Reasons

2008-01-13T16:33:18.0000Z

Hi psych0fred:

Good suggestion - we actually thought of this also, but it may involve a little bit more refactoring of the film type; there can be multiple releases for a film, and each release, can have different ratings and different reasons for the ratings.

We post changes to type schems to the developer and data-model list, so you can sign up for these email lists and we'll send out a change notice.

Film rating: Add Rating Reasons

2008-01-13T08:58:50.0012Z

When you look up a rating for a specific film the specific reasons for the rating are listed. For example "This film has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for some prolonged sequences of strong gruesome violence and language." The ability to include this information may of use.