Sadly, the MPAA is an important factor in the overall Hollywood scheme. In fact, it might be the most important part of the post-production process. Simply put, the lower the rating, the higher the box office. So if a film wants to do really, really well, they pretty much have to be PG-13 at the minimum. With an R-rating, success is less certain. Well this is a sad fact, it's true. The MPAA is no longer about just setting guidelines for parents—it's about setting box office parameters for movies.

That factor is very apparent today, with two films both struggling with the MPAA to get the rating they want. Read more about AMC's decision regarding the release of Bully (out in selected theaters today) and what Ridley Scott thinks about Prometheus' rating right after the jump.

At first glance, this is a pretty silly and dumb rumor. I mean, there's just so many things about this that doesn't make any sense! For one, I'm pretty sure Ridley Scott has said that none of the characters from the original film are coming back this time around. Also, it's been pretty well reported that Harrison Ford had a terrible experience making Blade Runner. Add in the fact that Ford has been pretty hesitant to sci-fi films nowadays and the idea of Ford returning for Blade Runner 2 seems pretty incomprehensible. That said, a rumor has been circling around the interwebs (as the kids call it) this weekend that Ford will indeed be back as police officer Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2. And, believe it or not...I actually believe there's credence to this rumor.

But in no way, shape, or form should you take that headline as a bad thing.  It is a teaser trailer, after all; the most important aspect of a teaser trailer is to build anticipation and to establish atmosphere, not lay out the entire story for all to see.  And in that regard, I don't see how you can call Prometheus' first trailer ANYTHING but a success.

In a day filled with trailers for the biggest films of next year...well, we don't get a trailer for Prometheus. You'll have to wait until Tuesday to get that.  Instead, we get TWO teaser trailers FOR the teaser trailer!  Just what everyone wanted...right?

The first atmospheric poster for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel has been released by Fox after a photo of it was taken inside their marketing department and leaked online earlier today. Check out the official hi-res version here.

News and info on Ridley Scott's Prometheus has been hard to come by.  The first official synopsis that came out a few months ago was cryptic and disappointingly vague.  Well a new one has come out that gives just a little bit more.

[Updated with fully press release] Apparently coming back to one of his earlier sci-fi films has given Ridley Scott warm and fuzzy feelings, because he's now committing to producing and directing an all new Blade Runner movie!

[Fox has sent an update out saying that the leaked plot synopsis is actually incorrect.  They have now issued an official synopsis.]

Prometheus is one of the most interesting projects coming out next year.  Originally envisioned as a prequel to the 1979 film Alien, the film reportedly evolved into a new project all together.  But then they said that it was still a prequel, but a very loose one.  So which one is it?  Well, a rumored plot synopsis may have finally given us the answer to that question.

But he probably won't get him.  Still...isn't pretending fun?

At this point, with all of this news about Prometheus, I'm just waiting for some official announcement to come out saying the name has changed once again to, Alien: Prometheus.  Now more reports have come in, reiterating what we've been told before, that the story will still be part of the Alien universe, but not a direct sequel.  A new report suggests though, that the xenomorphs won't be like anything we've seen before.