PG-13 vs. R Movies: How Each Rating Stacks Up at the Box Office. Numbers show that PG and PG-13 films gross roughly twice what R-rated films take in. Todd Cunningham. March 4, 2015 @ 11:35 AM.

With "A Minecraft Movie," "Lilo & Stitch" and "How to Train Your Dragon," PG films have been dominating at the box office.

This is the story of how a gooey green guy in a microwave, a pagan witchdoctor with a beating heart in his hand and that unlucky numeral 13 changed the way Hollywood makes its movies.

"Red Dawn" has a lasting legacy not only as a bit of trivia as the first "PG-13" film, but also as a symbol of the outnumbered underdog fighting the good fight. SIGN UP for Gold Derby's free ...

Of the 29,791 films OK'd by the movie ratings board since its inception in 1968, the vast majority — 17,202 — have been assigned an R. Most Movies Since 1968 Are Rated R, MPAA Study Finds ...

But in the case of the movie ratings, there’s a sense of bait-and-switch as parents who think they have understood what the cutoff is between a PG and a PG-13 or a PG-13 and an R find themselves ...

Movies aimed at teenagers now include more scenes of gun violence than films made for adults, new research shows. In 2012, box office hits that received a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Assn ...

Aug. 11 -- The PGs, PG-13s, and Rs of the movie ratings system don't rate very high in Denise Poh's judgment. "I think PG-13 is very misleading," said Poh, a school guidance counselor, as she ...

As movie theater attendance, at long last, begins to rebound, at least part of the newfound success is being attributed to PG films like the Warner Bros. video game adaptation “A Minecraft Movie ...

After a weak start to the year, the box office is benefitting from an unlikely savior — PG films. As movie theater attendance, at long last, begins to rebound, at least part of the newfound ...