The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is blasting such websites as Google, Wikipedia and Reddit who have blacked out their pages in an effort to protest support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), /Film is reporting. SOPA is a piece of legislation from the House of Representatives that threatens to not only curb piracy and illegal activity, but also the method of information use which is regularly seen over the Internet. If SOPA passes, the power to shut down U.S. websites will be unprecedented. Websites can be shut down if the U.S. attorney general asks courts to order ISPs to block access to them within America. SOPA can…

2011 has come and gone and left quite the assortment of movie news in its wake. There’s been poster after poster, trailer after trailer and more casting updates than we can count. With so much news out there, how can anything possible be memorable enough to stick even after the year comes to a close? Well, turns out, there is a way and actually, more than one of them. Controversy, notoriety and sheer good filmmaking, the very first Movie New Cheat Sheet of 2012 takes a look back at some unforgettable Cheat Sheet items of 2011. 1. Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen: We get a ton of big casting news…

The American Medical Association and the Motion Picture Association of America are going head-to-head over the depiction of smoking in movies aimed toward children. Reported by USA Today shows that a study conducted by the AMA Alliance, a volunteer branch of the AMA, states that 57-percent of movies rated G, PG, or PG-13 have featured characters smoking since 2002. The PG-13 films are said to have a shocking 67-percent featuring smoking. The AMA Alliance accused the MPAA of failing to make good on its promise to include smoking in assessing a film’s suitability for showing to children. Seth Oster, a spokesman for the MPAA, stepped up and said that its…