MoPix Update from WGBH- January 7

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MoPix Update from WGBH- January 7

Happy New Year All!

1. Accessible Movie Opening Today

2. New Access-Equipped Theaters

3. Two New DVDs with DVS Debut

4. Errors in live news captioning, results of a national survey conducted by

WGBH

5. Update – Captions and Description for Digital Cinema

6. MoPix Films Now Playing

7. MoPix Films Coming Soon

8. Credits

1. Accessible Movie Opening Today

Season of the Witch from Relativity Media (the first captioned film from

this studio... more progress!)

(cc only) (rated PG-13)

A 14th century Crusader (Nicolas Cage) turns to a homeland devastated by the

Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the

plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote

abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.

A priest, a grieving knight, a disgraced itinerant and a headstrong youth

who can only dream of becoming a knight join a mission troubled by

mythically hostile wilderness and fierce contention over the fate of the

girl. When the embattled party arrives at the abbey, a horrific discovery

jeopardizes the knight's pledge to ensure the girl fair treatment, and pits

them against an inexplicably powerful and destructive force.

Note: Country Strong from Sony Pictures (cc only) (rated PG-13) debuted in a

limited number of theaters just before Christmas. It expands to more

theaters in the US and Canada today.

2. New MoPix-Equipped Theater Locations

-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

AMC Tyngsboro 12 – Coming Soon!

440 Middlesex Road

Tyngsboro 978 649-4158

- 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 DVDs with DVS

Three more DVDs and Blu-ray discs with description debuted today:

Resident Evil: Afterlife a sci-fi adventure starring Milla Jovovich, from

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, rated R

Dinner for Schmucks a comedy starring Steve Carell and Rudd, from

Paramount Pictures Home Video, rated PG-13

The full list of DVDs with DVS, as well as a " click thru " option to order

the films from amazon.com, can always be found on this page of our site:

www.describedmovies.org

4. Errors in live news captioning, results of a national survey conducted by

WGBH

In spring 2010, WGBH's National Center for Accessible Media conducted a

national Web survey to query television news caption viewers about the types

of caption errors that impact their ability to understand a live television

news program. Survey results are contributing to definition of error types

and criteria for weighting and ranking error types within a prototype

automated caption accuracy assessment system we are developing. The survey

presented 41 examples drawn from a wide range of major national broadcast

and cable television live news programs. These 41 examples represented 17

sub-categories of common caption error types identified by the project team

and advisors.

The Caption Accuracy Metrics Survey Final Report has just been published.

The URL for the project Web site is:

http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/analog/caption-accuracy-metrics

5. Update – Captions and Description for Digital Cinema, Captions for 3D

Films

The Media Access Group worked with film industry standards groups for over

the last several years to ensure captioning (open and closed) and

description are available to theaters and their patrons as the theaters

transition to digital projection of films. Several theaters that are

projecting digital film are also displaying Rear Window Captions, and more

are literally coming online each week. Digital cinema servers from Doremi,

Dolby, GDC, Qube and Sony are all compatible with Rear Window. And Rear

Window Captioning also works with 3D films.

Currently Focus Features, 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#

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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