MoPix Update from WGBH- March 4

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MoPix Update from WGBH- March 4

1. MoPix Movies Opening Friday

2. New Access-Equipped Theater Debuts in MA this Week, Others Coming Soon

3. New Movies on DVD and Blu-ray with Description

4. Final Day of Online Survey: Text-to-Speech Delivery of Description for

Web-based Video

5. Captions and Descriptions in Digital Cinema

6. MoPix Films Now Playing

7. MoPix Films Coming Soon

8. Credits

1. MoPix Movies Opening Friday, March 4

The Adjustment Bureau from Universal Pictures

(cc dvs) (rated PG-13)

#cc dcp#

The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious

forces keeping the lovers apart.

Beastly from CBS Films

(cc only) (rated PG-13)

A modern-day take on the " Beauty and the Beast " tale where a New York teen

is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love.

Rango from Paramount Pictures*

(cc desc) (rated PG)

A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a

Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in

order to protect it. Featuring the voice of ny Depp.

Take Me Home Tonight from Relativity Media

(cc only) (rated R)

#cc dcp#

Follow an aimless college grad who pursues his dream girl at a wild Labor

Day weekend party. He, his twin sister and their best friend struggle with

their burgeoning adulthood over the course of the night.

2. New MoPix-Equipped Theater Locations Coming Soon

AMC Chestnut Hill 5 – Coming Soon!

27 Boylston Street

Chestnut Hill 617 277-2502

AMC Dartmouth Mall 12 – Coming Soon!

140 N. Dartmouth Mall

North Dartmouth 508 999-3142

- Utah

Megaplex 13 at the Junction (was DVS Theatrical location, now installing a

Rear Window system as well)

2351 Kiesel Avenue

Ogden

- Virginia

Cobb CinéBistro @ Stony Point Fashion Park – Coming Soon!

9200 Stony Point Parkway

Richmond

- Washington

Bainbridge Cinemas (Rear Window System only at this location)

403 N. Madison Avenue

Bainbridge Island

3. New Movies on DVD and Blu-ray with DVS

These movies are now available at all retail outlets with optional

description tracks:

- Burlesque (drama/musical starring Cher and Aguilera, rated R

from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

- Megamind (animated film with the voices of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and

Tina Fey, rated PG from Paramount Pictures Home Video)

--As always, find the full list of all the DVDs and Blu-ray discs that have

an optional description track at www.describedmovies.org.--

4. Final Day of Online Survey: Text-to-Speech Delivery of Description of

Web-based Video

WGBH's Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media

(NCAM) is conducting a joint study with IBM-Japan on the feasibility of

using text-to-speech software to deliver descriptive narration of Web-based

video. No worries— we're not considering uses synthesized voices to

describe movies and TV, just video that appears on the Web (and that is

proliferating at a rapid pace). A survey is posted now at the URL below.

We invite people who are blind or have low vision and who are over 18 years

of age to take the survey, which will be posted until TOMORROW, SATURDAY

MARCH 5. It is fully accessible with screen readers, and should take between

45-60 minutes (though folks report finishing it in less time).

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/461112/3i40b

5. Captions and Description for Digital Cinema

Currently Focus Features, Relativity Entertainment, Summit Entertainment,

Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Films, Walt Disney

Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures all provide closed captioned digital

cinema packages.

When a studio offers a closed captioned digital cinema package for the films

it releases, we will indicate such on the www.mopix.org site, and add this

line to the listing in our weekly update:

#cc dcp#

Twentieth Century Fox Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Walt Disney Studios

provide both captioned and audio described digital cinema packages for most

of their releases. When a studio provides both closed captioning and audio

description in a digital cinema package, we will indicate such on the MoPix

site and in our weekly update with:

##cc dvs dcp##

Learn more about access features for digital cinema from this resource we

maintain:

Access to Digital Cinema Systems/Frequently Asked Questions:

<http://tinyurl.com/y9h2k9p>

6. MoPix Films Now Playing

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