In an effort to prevent age discrimination in the film industry, a law in California was passed—Assembly Bill 1687—which requires IMDb.com to remove the ages or birth dates of public figures on its site upon request of actors. This bill has been met with stark backlash and has since become the basis of a complaint...Read More
Happy Film Friday folks! Film studios and trade associations are under siege in a lawsuit aiming to ban tobacco imagery in; “G,” “PG,” and “PG-13” rated films. The complainants in the suit attribute “smoking-related” deaths to the film industry. In a recent turn of events, the defendants recently filed a motion seeking to end the lawsuit with an...Read More
