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R-rated comedies suffer at boxoffice


July 29, 2008 Restricted ratings limit the boxoffice prospects of comedies most dramatically, but horror films aren't hurt at all by R ratings from the MPAA. In the aggregate, dramas fell somewhere between comedies and horror films for total gross lost to restricted ratings. On the other hand, Nielsen PreView said its study found that PG-13 and R-rated horror films tend to complement one another on the release calendar.

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