Good news for Kevin Smith fans! Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Smith’s upcoming film starring Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks managed to land itself a crowd-pleasing R rating from the MPAA.

Kevin Smith has successfully appealed the Motion Picture Association of America’s initial NC-17 rating for his upcoming salacious-sounding comedy, which stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as financially strapped roommates who try to dig themselves out of debt by making a homemade skin flick.

Smith reedited the film twice, each time receiving another NC-17, the box-office kiss of death that means no one under 17 is allowed in the theater.

If the director had lost his appeal, he still would have been contractually obligated to deliver an R-rated film to the Weinstein Co., which is releasing the picture. “I’ve gone as far as I can go, [but] my R would be a little better” than the studio’s, Smith said at Comic-Con last month.

But this time around, the MPAA’s appeals board gave the movie, which had undergone no further cuts, another look. It then slapped it with an R and called it a day.

Little has been released on the film so far, but mature audiences can check out this internet-only teaser trailer (warning: not safe for work or little children) to get a strong sense of what the film is shaping up to be.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno is expected in theaters October 2008.

(via E!online)