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Date: 24 May 2001 10:55:16 -0400
From: Mary Watkins <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Movie Update... Pearl Harbor, Shrek, Knight's Tale
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Currently playing closed captions using the Rear Window Captioning system, and audio descriptions utilizing the DVS Theatrical System are:
PEARL HARBOR, staring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale and Cuba Gooding, Jr., rated PG-13 and released by Buena Vista Pictures
A KNIGHT'S TALE, starring THE PATRIOT'S Heath Ledger, rated PG-13 and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment
and currently playing with closed captions only (no descriptions for this film are available):
SHREK, an animated fairy tale with characters voiced by Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow, rated PG and released by DreamWorks Pictures
Information about theaters equipped with the closed captioning (for moviegoers who are deaf and hard of hearing) and audio description (for moviegoers who are blind or have low vision) systems, debut dates, showtimes and directions to the General Cinema theaters AND THE NEWLY EQUIPPED GULF STATES THEATER/PALACE 20 IN NEW ORLEANS appear below.
Coming soon (dates subject to change by the studios)...
- ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE, from Buena Vista will debut with closed captions on June 15
- FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN from Sony Pictures will debut with closed captions and descriptions on July 13
- JURASSIC PARK III from Universal Pictures will debut with closed captions and descriptions on July 18
More titles:
- PRINCESS DIARIES from Buena Vista (closed captions)
- AMERICAN PIE 2 from Universal Pictures (closed captions and descriptions)
- CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN from Universal Pictures (closed captions and descriptions)
- RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS from Sony Pictures (closed captions and descriptions)
- MONSTERS, INC. from Buena Vista (closed captions)
- ALI from Sony Pictures (closed captions and descriptions)
Currently Playing:
***Please read movies, dates and times carefully.***
Atlanta
Parkway Pointe 15 General Cinema - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
SHREK (captions only) 12:40 2:50 5:20 7:50 10:00 PM
PEARL HARBOR is scheduled to play in the equipped theater in the coming weeks.
The General Cinema Parkway Pointe is located at 3101 Cobb Parkway in Cumberland, GA, about 1/2 mile south of the Galleria and Cumberland Mall, next to Borders Books.
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Baltimore Area
General Cinema Owings Mills - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
SHREK (captions only) 11:45 2:15 4:45 7:15 9:45
PEARL HARBOR is scheduled to play in the equipped theater in the coming weeks.
The Owings Mills 17 is located just off of Rt. 795 northwest of Baltimore on the ring road surrounding the Owings Mills Mall.
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Boston
1. General Cinema Fenway Theatre -
SHREK (captions only)
Friday May 25 to Monday May 28 12:45 3:30 5:50
Tuesday May 29 to Thursday May 31 12:45 3:30 5:50 8:15 10:30 PM
PEARL HARBOR is scheduled to play in the equipped theater in the coming weeks.
The Fenway Theatre is located at 201 Brookline Avenue, about 2 blocks away
from Fenway Park, in the Landmark Center, formerly the old Sears building.
It is accessible by an easy walk from either the Fenway stop or the
Kenmore Square stop on the Green Line of the T. There is a parking lot
for more than 1000 cars in the Landmark Center building. Bring your
parking ticket to the box office for validation -- only $2.
2. General Cinema Framingham 16 -- Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
SHREK (captions only) 12:30 3:00 5:30 8:00 10:30 PM
PEARL HARBOR is scheduled to play in the equipped theater in the coming weeks.
The Framingham 16 is located 20 miles west of downtown Boston, at 22 Flutie Pass, between the Natick Mall and Shoppers World.
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Chicago - Lombard
1. General Cinema Yorktown - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
PEARL HARBOR 12:30 4:30 8:30 PM
General Cinema Yorktown 18 is located 25 minutes west of downtown Chicago on Butterfield Road, just east of the intersection with Highland Avenue adjacent to the Yorktown Shopping Center and across the street from the Embassy Suites Hotel.
2. General Cinema City North - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
SHREK (captions only) - 12:40 3:00 5:20 7:45 10:00 PM
General Cinema City North 14 is located on the north side of Chicago at 2600 N. Western Avenue, between Fullerton and Diversey at the Kennedy Expressway.
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Los Angeles
General Cinema Sherman Oaks - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
PEARL HARBOR 10:45 2:40 6:40 10:45 PM
The General Cinema Sherman Oaks is located in Sherman Oaks, California, near
the intersection of the 405 and the 101, at 4500 Van Nuys Blvd.
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Milwaukee/Wauwatosa, WI
General Cinema Mayfair Mall - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
SHREK (captions only) 12:00 2:20 4:40 7:00 9:20 PM
PEARL HARBOR is scheduled to play in the equipped theater in the coming weeks.
Located on the east side of Mayfair Mall, about 6 miles west of downtown Milwaukee.
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New Orleans (NEW THEATER, NEW THEATER CHAIN, NEW CITY)
Palace Theatre 20 Elmwood (part of the Gulf States Theater chain)
1200 Elmwood Park Blvd.
Harahan, Louisiana 504 733-2029
PEARL HARBOR Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31 11:00 3:00 7:00 PM
The Palace Theatre 20 is located off Clearview Parkway behind the Big K-Mart in Harahan, 15 minutes from downtown New Orleans.
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New York City/NJ Area
1. General Cinema Bay Plaza (Bronx) - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
Movie schedule not released at time of this posting. Please call the theater directly for information: 718 320-1659.
The General Cinema Bay Plaza is located right off of Rt. 95 in the north Bronx (near the Westchester border) at the Bay Plaza Shopping Center. (Take the Bay Plaza/Co-op City Exit off Rt. 95.) The theatre is located behind the Bay Plaza shopping center, around the corner from Applebee's restaurant.
PEARL HARBOR is scheduled to play in the equipped theater in the coming weeks.
2. Clifton, NJ (8 miles from NYC)
General Cinema Clifton Commons
SHREK (captions only)
Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31 11:00 1:15 3:30 5:45 8:00 10:45 PM
plus 12:30 AM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday May 25-27
PEARL HARBOR is scheduled to play in the equipped theater in the coming weeks.
General Cinema Clifton Commons is located west of the Meadowlands on eastbound Rt. 3 in Clifton, near the large Barnes & Noble and Sports Authority stores.
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Phildelphia Area
General Cinema Plymouth Meeting - Thursday May 24 to Thursday May 31
A KNIGHT'S TALE 1:00 4:00 7:00 10:00 PM
The General Cinema Plymouth Meeting is located at Plymouth Meeting Mall, northwest of downtown Philadelphia, adjacent to the large IKEA furniture store. There is a public bus which runs from Broad Street in downtown all the way to Plymouth Meeting Mall.
SHREK is also scheduled to play in the equipped theater in Plymouth Meeting in the weeks ahead.
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Seattle
1. General Cinema Pacific Place - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
SHREK (captions only) 12:00 2:20 4:40 7:10 9:30 PM
General Cinema Pacific Place is located in downtown Seattle at the corner of Sixth and Pine Streets.
2. Cinerama - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
PEARL HARBOR 11:45 AM 3:45 7:45 PM (plus 11:45 PM shows on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 25-27)
Cinerama is located in downtown Seattle at the corner of 4th and Lenora Streets, near the Westin Hotel.
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Springfield, Virginia/ D.C. Area
General Cinema Springfield Mall - Friday May 25 to Thursday May 31
A KNIGHT'S TALE 12:45 3:45 7:00 10:15 PM
SHREK and PEARL HARBOR are scheduled to play at in the equipped theater in the coming weeks.
Springfield Mall is located on Franconia Road just east of Rt. 95, about 12 miles from Washington, D.C. The equipped auditorium is located near the mall entrance with the large #2 sign outside.
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Closed captioning of all films provided by The Caption Center at WGBH. Descriptions provided by WGBH's Descriptive Video Service. Rear Window Captioning and DVS Theatrical were developed by WGBH, Boston's public broadcaster to make feature films accessible to deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired movie fans the date films open in theaters nationwide and during regular showtimes.
For more information on the WGBH's Motion Picture Access (MoPix) efforts,
a complete list of equipped first-run and specialty/IMAX theaters, information about bringing access systems to your community, how RWC and DVST will work with developing digital cinema systems or to comment on the access systems or services, please visit www.mopix.org, e-mail [log in to unmask] or call 617 300-3400 v, -2489 TTY.
Thanks to General Cinema and Gulf States Theaters, the Hollywood studios and to all the movie fans out there. Enjoy!
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Mary Watkins
Outreach Manager
Media Access at WGBH
(The Caption Center, Descriptive Video ServiceŽ,
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media)
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