[blparent] Fw: MoPix Update from WGBH- October 22
Ken Quinn
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Mon Oct 25 01:34:00 UTC 2010
MoPix Update from WGBH- October 22thought everyone would be interested in this.
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Subject: MoPix Update from WGBH- October 22
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MoPix Update from WGBH- October 22
1. Accessible Films Opening this Week
2. New Access-Equipped Theaters
3. MoPix in the News
4. Toy Story 3 on DVD with DVS
5. Update - Captions and Description for Digital Cinema, Captions for 3D Films
6. MoPix Films Now Playing
7. MoPix Films Coming Soon
8. Credits
1. Accessible Films Opening This Week
Hereafter from Warner Bros. Pictures
(cc only) (rated PG-13)
##closed captioned digital cinema package available##
A thriller centered on three people--a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy--who are touched by death in different ways. Starring Matt Damon and directed by Clint Eastwood.
Paranormal Activity 2 from Paramount Pictures*
(cc only) (rated R)
After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins" a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
2. New Access-Equipped Theater Locations
- Massachusetts
AMC Harvard Square 5 - Coming Soon!
Auditorium 1
10 Church St.
Cambridge 617-864-4581 (voice)
AMC Braintree 10 - Debuts this week!
Auditorium 10
121 Grandview Rd.
Braintree 781-356-0112 (voice)
The RWC system debuts today with Red (rated PG-13, DVS not available for this film)
Fri-Sun: 11:05AM 2:00 4:50 7:45 10:35PM
Mon-Thurs: 11:05AM 2:00 4:50 7:35 10:15PM
AMC Burlington 10 - Coming Soon!
Auditorium 10
20 South Ave.
Burlington 781-229-1931
AMC Loews Liberty Tree Mall 20 - Coming Soon!
Auditorium 14
100 Independence Way
Danvers 978-750-9785 (voice)
- 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. MoPix in the News
The Boston Globe ran a story this week on WGBH's efforts to make movies and movie theater accessible. Here's a link:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/10/18/a_reel_deal_for_blind_deaf/
And we posted to Yahoo's Accessibility Blog, this time listing the Web sites that our staff tracks to stay on top of technology development in order to anticipate access needs. See that here:
WGBH: Seeing What's Next, With a Little Help from Our Friends
http://yaccessibilityblog.com/
4. Toy Story 3 on DVD with DVS
Toy Story 3 will debut in retail stores and via online retail outlets on Tuesday, November 2. DVD and Blu-ray versions will both include an optional DVS track. Thanks to the dedication of Pixar and Disney, and their ongoing collaboration with WGBH, the discs will also feature an easy-to-use short cut for getting to the described track, enabling users to avoid drilling down multiple layers of on-screen menus that can be a challenge to people with vision, let alone people without vision.
A full list of mainstream movies as well as programs that aired on PBS that are now on DVD can both be accessed through this page of our site:
www.describedmovies.org
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. When a studio offers closed captioned digital cinema packages 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:
##closed captioned digital cinema package available##
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 Links:
- www.mopix.org for a list of theaters that list accessible films and showtimes on their
sites
- captionfish.com (searches for captioned, subtitled and/or described films based on your zip code)
- fomdi.com (search for captioned films based on your zip code or city)
Available with closed captions using the Rear Window Captioning system, and
audio descriptions utilizing the DVS Theatrical System. Films that also have a closed captioned digital cinema package to enable playout of captions in theaters equipped with digital cinema projection and Rear Window systems include (cc dcp) after the title.
Devil from Universal Pictures (cc dcp)
Easy A from Sony Pictures (cc dcp)
Life As We Know It from Warner Bros. Pictures (cc dcp)
My Soul to Take from Universal Pictures (cc dcp)
Resident Evil: Afterlife from Sony Pictures
Secretariat from Walt Disney Studios (cc dcp)
The Social Network from Sony Pictures (cc dcp)
The Town from Warner Bros. Pictures (cc dcp)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps from Twentieth Century Fox Films
Available with closed captions using the Rear Window Captioning system
(descriptive narration is not available for these films):
The American from Focus Features (cc dcp)
Case 39 from Paramount Pictures*
Going the Distance from Warner Bros. Pictures (cc dcp)
Hereafter from Warner Bros. Pictures (cc dcp)
It's Kind of a Funny Story from Focus Features (cc dcp)
Jackass 3D from Paramount Pictures*
Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole from Warner Bros. Pictures (cc dcp)
Paranormal Activity 2 from Paramount Pictures*
Red from Summit Entertainment (cc dcp)
You Again from Walt Disney Studios (cc dcp)
7. MoPix Films Coming Soon
(plot descriptions from imdb.com)
Conviction from Fox Searchlight Films
(Oct 29) (cc dvs)
Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Sam Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Due Date from Warner Bros. Pictures
(Nov 5) (cc dvs)
##closed captioned digital cinema package available##
High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) on a road trip in order to make it to his child's birth on time.
Megamind from Paramount Pictures*
(Nov 5) (cc with desc tba)
The supervillain Megamind finally conquers his nemesis, the hero Metro Man... but finds his life pointless without a hero to fight. With the voices of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Tina Fey.
Morning Glory from Paramount Pictures*
(Nov 12) (cc with desc tba)
A hotshot television producer (Rachel McAdams) is set the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program, despite the constant feuding of its high-profile anchors (Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton).
Skyline from Universal Pictures
(Nov 12) (cc dvs)
##closed captioned digital cinema package available##
Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.
Unstoppable from Twentieth Century Fox Films
(Nov 12) (cc dvs)
##closed captioned digital cinema package available##
A rail company frantically works to prevent an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from wiping out a city. Starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 from Warner Bros. Pictures
(Nov 19) (cc dvs)
##closed captioned digital cinema package available##
Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for the Trio, and the rest of the Wizarding World, so everything they do must go as planned.
Burlesque from Sony Pictures
(Nov 24) (cc dvs)
##closed captioned digital cinema package available##
A small-town girl (Christina Aguilera) ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer (Cher).
Faster from CBS Films
(Nov 24) (cc only)
An ex-con sets out to avenge his brother's death after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago. During his campaign, however, he's tracked by a veteran cop and an egocentric hit man. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton.
Love and Other Drugs from Twentieth Century Fox Films
(Nov 24) (cc dvs)
Maggie (Anne Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
Tangled from Walt Disney Studios
(Nov 24) (cc dvs)
##closed captioned digital cinema package available##
The long-haired Princess Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but when she falls in love with a bandit who was passing by she must venture into the outside world for the first time to find him.
MoPix Films Coming in December
127 Hours from Fox Searchlight Films (Dec 3) (cc dvs)
Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Trader from Twentieth Century Fox Films (Dec 10) (cc dvs)
The Fighter from Paramount Pictures (Dec 10) (cc with desc tba)*
The Tempest from Walt Disney Studios (Dec 10) (cc only)
The Tourist from Sony Pictures (Dec 10) (cc dvs)
How Do You Know from Sony Pictures (Dec 17) (cc dvs)
Tron: Legacy from Walt Disney Studios (Dec 17) (cc dvs)
Yogi Bear from Warner Bros Pictures (Dec 17) (cc with dvs tba)
Country Strong from Sony Pictures (Dec 22) (cc only)
Gulliver's Travels from Twentieth Century Fox Films (Dec 22) (cc dvs)
Little Fockers from Universal Pictures (Dec 22) (cc dvs)
True Grit from Paramount Pictures (Dec 25) (cc with desc tba)*
* WGBH has developed a conversion process to enable select Paramount films
to be available via Rear Window Captioning systems. Some of these titles
will also be available with descriptions. The latter will be designated
"desc" vs. DVS in our updates to indicate availability of that
feature, though WGBH did not create those descriptions.
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8. CREDITS
Closed captioning and description of films provided by the Media Access
Group at WGBH, a nonprofit division of Boston public broadcaster WGBH. The
Rear Window Captioning and DVS Theatrical systems were developed by WGBH to
make feature films accessible the date films open in theaters nationwide-
and during regular showtimes- to movie fans who are deaf, hard-of-hearing,
blind or visually impaired.
For more information on the WGBH's Motion Picture Access (MoPix) efforts,
including how to encourage a theater in your area to install the access
systems, please visit <www.mopix.org>, e-mail access at wgbh.org or call 617
300-3700.
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Media Access Group at WGBH
mary_watkins at wgbh.org
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Boston, MA 02135
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