Matthew McConaughey and William Friedkin’s Killer Joe still stuck with an NC-17
Speaking of ratings, Entertainment Weekly reports that the MPAA has rejected the appeals of the distributor and makers of William Friedkin's Killer Joe that the NC-17 rating stamped on the movie earlier this month be overturned. Based on a play by Tracy Letts (whose August: Osage County is set to be filmed, with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts), the movie stars Matthew McConaughey as a cop who works as a hit man on the side, and who is hired by a drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) who wants him to murder his mother so he can collect the insurance money, with the enthusiastic assent of the drug dealer's family.