{"id":19279,"date":"2012-03-13T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=19279"},"modified":"2012-03-13T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:24:11","slug":"uk-censors-trim-7-seconds-from-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/13\/uk-censors-trim-7-seconds-from-hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Censors Trim 7 Seconds From HUNGER GAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HungerGamesLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19280\" title=\"HungerGamesLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HungerGamesLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HungerGamesLogo.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HungerGamesLogo-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>The British Board of Film Classification has order seven seconds be cut from the upcoming <strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong> in order for it to receive a 12A rating. The 12A rating is similar to the PG-13 rating here in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>If Lionsgate had refused to make the trims, they would have been forced to release the film with a 15 rating, meaning that no one under the age of 15 would be admitted to the theater, which would definitely cut into the film\u2019s strongly teen audience.<\/p>\n<p>The requested trims were from four violent scenes and one scene that showed gory details of an injury.<\/p>\n<p>The BBFC has long been stricter in its ratings of violent content in films than it has been with sexual content. Even films like <strong>Star Wars: Episode 2 \u2013 Attack Of The Clones<\/strong> had to trim one shot of a head butt in the fight between Obi-Wan and Jango Fett in order to secure a 12A rating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong> will go with the rating and the notice &#8220;Contains intense threat, moderate violence and occasional gory moments.&#8221; The film\u2019s PG-13 rating will be accompanied with the explanation &#8220;intense violent thematic material and disturbing images \u2013 all involving teens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The film is set for release after a few snips of the editor&#8217;s scissors. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/13\/uk-censors-trim-7-seconds-from-hunger-games\/\" title=\"UK Censors Trim 7 Seconds From HUNGER GAMES\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4938,4731],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bbfc","9":"tag-the-hunger-games"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19279"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=19279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}