U.K. AD AUTHORITY BANS COMMERCIALS FOR THE MECHANIC
June 2, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has ordered that ads for the R-rated (in the U.S.) movie The Mechanic, starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster, be pulled from all channels because of a “stream of violent imagery” that they display. Britain’s Press Association described the objectionable scenes this way: “A man being speared through the calf, a […]