MoPix Update from WGBH- February 18

[Guest guest]

MoPix Update from WGBH- February 18

1. MoPix Movies Opening Today

2. New Access-Equipped Theaters Coming Soon

3. Take a Survey: Text-to-Speech Delivery of Description for Web-based Video

4. New DVDs with DVS Released

5. Captions and Descriptions in Digital Cinema

6. MoPix Films Now Playing

7. MoPix Films Coming Soon

8. Credits

1. MoPix Movies Opening Today

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son from Twentieth Century Fox Films

(cc dvs) (rated PG-13)

#cc dvs dcp#

FBI agent Malcolm and his stepson Trent go undercover at an all-girls

performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Starring

Lawrence.

I Am Number Four from Walt Disney Studios

(cc dvs) (rated PG-13)

#cc dcp#

is an extraordinary teen, masking his true identity and passing as a

typical high school student to elude a deadly enemy seeking to destroy him.

Three like him have already been killed ... he is Number Four.

Unknown from Warner Bros. Pictures

(cc dvs) (rated PG-13)

#cc dvs dcp#

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his

identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help

of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is. Starring Liam Neeson.

2. New MoPix-Equipped Theater Locations Coming Soon

- Massachusetts

AMC Burlington 10 – Coming Soon!

Auditorium 10

20 South Ave.

Burlington 781-229-1931

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. Take a 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 Friday, March 4. 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

4. New DVDs with DVS Released

Two more DVDs are out now with descriptive narration. They both fall in to

the thriller/horror category, so beware:

My Soul to Take, rated R, from Universal Studio Home Entertainment

Paranormal Activity 2, rated R, from Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment

For plot descriptions, titles of other DVD and Blu-ray discs out now with

DVS and an easy " click through " option to purchase the movies on amazon.com,

visit www.describedmovies.org

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

Helpful