PG-13 vs. R Movies: How Each Rating Stacks Up at the Box Office. Numbers show that PG and PG-13 films gross roughly twice what R-rated films take in. Todd Cunningham. March 4, 2015 @ 11:35 AM.

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Movies rated R returned about $42 million at the box office on average last year, while the average haul of PG ($82 million) and PG-13 movies ($79 million) was roughly double that. News Today's news ...