Daniel Radcliffe - Woman In Black Bosses Cut Footage For Lower Rating (Contact Music)

23 January 2012 12:06

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Woman In Black Bosses Cut Footage For Lower RatingMovie bosses were forced to re-cut Daniel Radcliffe's new supernatural thriller The Woman In Black to land a less-restrictive age rating in Britain.

Film regulators in the U.K. slapped a 15-classification on the horror, an adaption of Susan Hill's scary novel, meaning viewers under the age of 15 could not see the movie.

However, chiefs at Momentum Pictures were keen to land a 12a-rating to open the film up to a younger audience - and as a result, six seconds of "strong violence" and "horror" have been removed from the final edit.

A statement from the British Board of Film Classification (Bbfc) reads, "This work was cut. The cut(s) were made at the request of the distributor to achieve a particular category.


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