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Entertainment & Sports

Nov. 20, 2010

Lawyer Tapped to Fight Movie Ratings

Independent movie studio The Weinstein Co. has hired Bert Fields to appeal the ratings assigned to two of its films.


By Jean-Luc Renault


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Independent movie studio The Weinstein Co. has hired Bert Fields to appeal the ratings assigned to two of its films.


Those films include "Blue Valentine," which the Motion Picture Association of America assigned an NC-17 rating, and "The King's Speech," which the MPAA gave an R.


Fields, a partner with Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger in Century C...

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