X-Men 2, Matrix subtitled nationwide!

From: subtitles @ your local cinema - May 1, 2003

X-Men 2, Matrix subtitled nationwide!

It's Thursday, around lunchtime, so it must be...
The Weekly Subtitled Cinema Listings!

Over 20 subtitled movies, including:
X-Men 2
Matrix Reloaded
Phone Booth
Johnny English
Shanghai Knights
Jungle Book 2
Daredevil
Solaris
Dreamcatcher
Frida
The 25th Hour
Adaptation
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
How to lose a guy in 10 days
The Recruit
and more below...

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Coming soon: The Matrix Reloaded (schedule below), Hulk, Charlies Angels 2,
Terminator 3, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Kangaroo Jack, Pirates of the Caribbean and
many more.

Disney's Finding Nemo still unconfirmed - watch the website for news!

If you require audio description listings only, please email us at:
ad@yourlocalcinema.com

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Read any good movies lately?
Subtitled and audio described cinema enables people
with less than perfect hearing or vision to enjoy film,
presented in it's original, and best form - the cinema.

Know someone who would appreciate this info? Tell them!
Forward this email to them now.

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As soon as cinemas schedules are announced for new films, they will be
listed on our website - please DON'T wait for the next weekly email - CHECK
the website often! Important reschedules, time changes etc. are posted on
there as soon as they are announced.

http://www.yourlocalcinema.com

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As usual, many available films, but not many shows!
Please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available, accessible films! (locations below)

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How to lose a guy in 10 days (Hudson, McConaughey) (12a) subtitled (*D)

LONDON, West End, Odeon
Mon 5th May at 12.30pm
Tue 6th May at 3.05pm
Wed 7th May at 5.45pm

LEICESTER, Odeon
Mon 1st May at 9.30pm
Mon 5th May at 1.15pm
Tue 6th May at 930pm
Wed 7th May at 6.45pm
Thu 8th May at 4.00pm

GATESHEAD, Newcastle, UCI Metro Centre
Saturday 3rd May at 12.20pm
Thursday 8th May at 8.50pm

CARDIFF, UCI
Sat 3rd May at 1pm
Mon 5th May at 9.45pm

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Jungle Book 2 (Mowgli, Baloo) (U) subtitled (*D)

UXBRIDGE, London, Odeon
Wed 7th May at 4.30pm

KINGSTON, Surrey, Odeon
Sat 3rd May at 10.30am
Sun 4th May at 3.50pm

WIMBLEDON, London, Odeon
Sat 3rd May at 11.50am
Sun 4th May at 1.30pm
Mon 5th May at 3.10pm

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Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) (PG) subtitled (*D)

LONDON, Uxbridge, Odeon
Mon 5th May at 7.30pm

KINGSTON, Surrey, Odeon
Tue 6th May at 9.20pm
Wed 7th May at 7.15pm

Cineworld Wolverhampton
Bentley Bridge Leisure Park WV11
*CHANGE!
Sat 3rd, Sun 4th & Mon 5th May at 11am
*NOT Friday 2nd

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Phone Booth (Farrell, Sutherland) (15) subtitled (*D)

Guildford, Surrey, Bedford Road Odeon
Sun 4th May at 12.15pm
Wed 7th May at 9.30pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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Daredevil (15) subtitled

UCI cinemas:

Clydebank Strathclyde UCI Sat 3rd May at 11.30am
Edinburgh Lothian UCI Thurs 1st May at 7pm
East Kilbride Strathclyde UCI Mon 5th May at 7pm
Scunthorpe Humberside UCI Wed 7th May at 7pm

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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Clooney, Roberts, 15) subtitled (*D)

Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland
12 Rose Street , Glasgow G3
Monday 19th May at 8.30pm
Wednesday 21st May at 3.45pm

Belfast, Moviehouse
Yorkgate Shopping Complex, 100-150 York Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Thurs 8th May at 7.40pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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Solaris (Clooney) (12a) subtitled (*D)

Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland
12 Rose Street , Glasgow G3
Saturday 10th May at 3.45pm
Sunday 11th May at 8.30pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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Frida (Hayak) (15) subtitled (*D)

Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland
12 Rose Street , Glasgow G3
Monday 26th May at 8.30pm
Thursday 29th May at 2.30pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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Shanghai Knights (Chan, Wilson) (12a) subtitled (*D)

Belfast, Moviehouse
Yorkgate Shopping Complex,
100-150 York Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Thurs 1st May at 7pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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Dreamcatcher (15) subtitled

*MAY BE CANCELLED! Check with cinema!
*GATESHEAD, Newcastle, UCI Metro Centre
*Thurs 1st May at 9:20pm

Colchester, Head Street, Odeon
Thurs 8th May at 8.10pm

Uxbridge, London
Thu 8th May at 6pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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The 25th Hour (Norton) (15) subtitled (*D)

LONDON, Wimbledon, Odeon
Fri 2nd May at 5.10pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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Adaptation (Cage) (15) subtitled (*D)

Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland
12 Rose Street , Glasgow G3
Sunday 4th May at 8.30pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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The Recruit (Pacino, Farrell) (12a) subtitled (*D)

WIMBLEDON, London, Odeon
Wed 7th May at 8.15pm
Not many shows - please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen
available films!

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James Bond in Die Another Day (12a) subtitled

Tyneside, Picturehouse Cinema
4th May at 12.30pm

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PG) subtitled

Odeon Southampton
Sat 10th and Sun 11th May at 10.30am

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Ice Age (Animation) (U) subtitled

Odeon Chester
Saturday 10th May at 11am
All tickets only £1.50 for this show

Odeon Southampton
Sat 10th and Sun 11th May at 10.30am

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and from Odeon Guildford:
SATURDAY MORNING CINEMA HAS NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN!
Competitions, prizes, face painting, fancy dress, a treasure hunt and lots
more.
All the fun will start at 10.00am when the doors open, films play at
10.45am.
All tickets are only £2.00 each.

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Scooby Doo (PG) subtitled
Saturday 3rd May at 10.45am

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Lilo & Stitch (U) subtitled
Saturday 7th June at 10.45am

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Men in Black 2 (PG) subtitled
Saturday 5th July at 10.45am

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Monsters Inc (U) subtitled
Saturday 2nd August at 10.45am

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Time Machine (PG) subtitled
Saturday 6th September at 10.45am

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Disney's Treasure Planet (U) subtitled
Saturday 4th October at 10.45am

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Signed cinema screenings in Derby
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (U) signed (not subtitled)
Saturday 17 May 2003 at 4pm
British Sign Language Interpreted screening. All tickets are £2.50.

and now...
X-Men 2 and Matrix Reloaded

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X-Men 2 (Jackman, Berry, McKellen, Stewart) (12a) below, but first...

Subtitled versions of the movies above and more are available to cinemas
NOW, but most are only in the new 'digital subtitle' format (*D). This means
that only 17 UK cinemas can screen them. They are not available in an 'open
subtitled/captioned' form - the format that every UK cinema can screen (like
X-Men 2, Daredevil, Potter and Bond).

Please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen them!
(locations and many more available films below).

A subtitled version of X-Men 2 is available to cinemas NOW, in the 'open
subtitled' format - which every UK cinema can screen. It is also available
in the 'digital' format. Please ask your nearest cinema to screen available
subtitled films!

Odeon, UCI and UGC listings below. Expect Warner Village, Odeon, UGC and
Cineworld very soon - watch the website.

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X-Men 2 (Jackman, Berry, McKellen, Stewart) (12a)

Odeon cinemas:
Times announced nearer the dates. Watch the website.

London - Holloway Odeon
Tue 27 May

London - Marble Arch Odeon
Sat 24 May

London - South Woodford Odeon
Sat 31 May

London - Streatham Odeon
Thurs 22 May

Aylesbury, Bucks Odeon
Thurs 5 June

Beckenham, Kent Odeon
Tue 20 May

Birmingham, Midlands Odeon
Tue 17 June

Bournemouth, Dorset Odeon
Sat 10 May

Blackpool, Lancashire Odeon
Sat 31 May

Bristol, Avon Odeon
Sat 14 June

Bridgend, Glamorgan Odeon
Thurs 12 June

Brighton, East Sussex Odeon
Tue 13 May

Bradford Thornbury, Leeds, Yorkshire Odeon
Thurs 22 May

Bromborough, Merseyside Odeon
Sat 7 June

Cheltenham, Glos. Odeon
Tue 10 June

Chester, Cheshire Odeon
Wed 7 May at 12.30pm 3pm 6pm 8.30pm

Coventry, Midlands Odeon
Sat 21 June

Dunfermline, Fife Odeon
Mon 5 May at 12noon 2.45pm 5.30pm 8.30pm

Dundee, Douglasfield Odeon
Tue 13 May

Edinburgh, Wester Hailes Odeon
Sat 10 May

Epsom, Surrey Odeon
Thurs 15 May

Glasgow Quay, Strathclyde Odeon
Sat 17 May

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Odeon
Tue 3 June

Hull
Tue 20 May

Kilmarnock, Strathclyde Odeon
Thurs 15 May

Liverpool, Switch Island, Merseyside Odeon
Thurs 5 June

Lincoln Odeon
Tue 27 May

Maidstone, Kent Odeon
Sat 17 May

Manchester Odeon
Tue 3 June

Mansfield, Nottingham Odeon
Sat 14 June

Newcastle Newgate Street, Tyne & Wear, Odeon
Tue 6th May at 12.15pm 3pm 5.45pm 8.30pm

Nuneaton, Warwickshire Odeon
Thurs 19 June

Oxford George Street Odeon
Sat 7 June

Southampton, Hampshire Odeon
Fri 9 May

Sheffield, Yorkshire Odeon
Sat 24 May

Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire Odeon
Thurs 12 June

Taunton, Somerset Odeon
Tue 17 June

Wrexham, North Wales Odeon
Tue 10 June

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X-Men 2 (Jackman, Berry, McKellen, Stewart) (12a)

UCI cinemas

London - Greenwich thefilmworks UCI
Sun 1st June at 11.30am

London - Lee Valley UCI
Sat 24th May at 11.30am

London - Whiteleys Bayswater UCI
Tue 3rd June at 7pm

London - Surrey Quays UCI
Sat 7th June at 11.30am

Bracknell Berkshire UCI
Fri 13th June at 7pm

Clydebank UCI
Thurs 3rd July at 7pm

Derby UCI
Thurs 8th May 7pm
Fri 9th May at 7pm
Sat 10th May at 11.30am

Dudley Midlands UCI
Fri 16th May at 7pm

East Kilbride UCI
Sat 5th Juyl at 11.30am

Edinburgh UCI
Tue 1st July at 7pm

Hatfield Herts UCI
Thurs 22nd May at 7pm

High Wycombe Bucks thefilmworks UCI
Mon 9th June at 7pm

Huddersfield Yorkshire UCI
Mon 23rd June at 7pm

Hull UCI
Wed 25th June at 7pm

Manchester thefilmworks UCI
Fri 2nd May at 7pm

Manchester Trafford UCI
Sun 4th May at 11.30am

Maidenhead thefilmworks UCI
Wed 11th June at 7pm

Newcastle East, Wallsend, Silverlink, Tyne & Wear UCI
Sun 29th June at 11.30am

Northampton UCI
Tue 20th May at 7pm

Norwich UCI
Mon 26th May at 7pm

Poole Dorset UCI
Sun 15th June at 11.30am

Portsolent Portsmouth UCI
Tue 17th June at 7pm

Preston Lancashire UCI
Sat 21th June at 11.30am

Solihull Birmingham UCI
Sun 18th May at 11.30am

Sutton Surrey UCI
Thurs 5th June at 7pm

Swansea Glamorgan UCI
Thurs 19th June at 7pm

Scunthorpe UCI
Fri 27th June at 7pm

Telford Shropshire UCI
Mon 12th May at 7pm

Tamworth Staffordshire UCI
Wed 14th May at 7pm

Warrington Cheshire UCI
Tues 6th May at 7pm

West Thurrock Essex UCI
Fri 30th May at 7pm

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X-Men 2 (Jackman, Berry, McKellen, Stewart) (12a)

UGC cinemas
Times announced nearer the dates. Watch the website.

Birmingham (Broad Street) Midlands UGC
Wed 21st May

Boldon Tyne & Wear Newcastle UGC
Fri 30th May

Cardiff Glamorgan UGC
Thur 15th May

Crawley West Sussex UGC
Fri 9th May at 8.30pm

Dundee UGC
Monday 9th June

Edinburgh Lothian UGC
Mon 2nd June

Glasgow (Renfrew Street) Strathclyde UGC
Thu 5th June

Ipswich Suffolk UGC
Sun 18th May

Rochester Kent UGC
Mon 12th May

Sheffield Yorkshire UGC
Sat 24th May

Stockport Cheshire UGC
Tue 27th May

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Matrix Reloaded subtitled
(Reeves, Fishbourne) (cert tbc)

A subtitled version of Matrix Reloaded will be available to cinemas in the
'open subtitled' format - which every UK cinema can screen. It will also be
available in the 'digital' format. Please ask your nearest cinema to screen
available subtitled films!

UGC listings below. Expect Odeon, UCI, Warner Village and Cineworld very
soon - watch this space!

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UGC cinemas:
Times announced nearer the dates. Watch the website.

Aberdeen UGC
Sun 22nd June

Birmingham (Broad Street) Midlands UGC
Tue 3rd June

Cardiff Glamorgan UGC
Thur 29th May

Crawley West Sussex UGC
Fri 23rd May

Didsbury UGC
Sun 8th June

Dundee UGC
Thur 19th June

Edinburgh Lothian UGC
Sun 15th June

Glasgow (Renfrew Street) Strathclyde UGC
Tue 17th June

Hull UGC
Tue 10th June

Ipswich Suffolk UGC
Sun 1st June

Middlesbrough UGC
Thur 12th June

Rochester Kent UGC
Mon 26th May

Sheffield Yorkshire UGC
Thur 5th June

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PLEASE READ THIS!

Subtitles @ Your Local Cinema receive subtitled listings information
directly from cinema head offices, but we can take NO responsibility for
postponed or cancelled shows. If cinemas inform us of changes, we will tell
you via the website. If they don't inform us, we can't inform you.

Many cinemas schedules are "SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTIFICATION".
Sometimes a subtitled film is not delivered to the cinema on time and cannot
be screened.

The only way to be 100% sure is to ALWAYS check with the ACTUAL cinema
before you plan a visit. But DOUBLE check, preferably with a manager. NEVER
turn up without getting confirmation that a show is definitely on.

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On the website:

Every subtitled film: now showing, on the way & previous.
New films, locations, dates and times added regularly.
Accessible digital subtitle cinema locations - more added as they become
available.
Responses and views on cinema subtitling.
Video game, Theatre and DVD extra feature subtitles.
and much more...

http://www.yourlocalcinema.com

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Engage your Senses!
SEE the dialogue! HEAR the action! FEEL the rumbling!
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The films below have been released with digital subtitles only. They are
available NOW but can ONLY be screened in cinemas with digital subtitle
facilities. Please ask your nearest accessible cinema to screen them!
(locations below).

Dreamcatcher - - Hope Springs - - Phone Booth
Shanghai Knights - - Seeing Double - - How to lose a guy in 10 days
Little Polar Bear - - Jungle Book 2 - - Johnny English
The Core - - Cradle 2 the Grave - - The Recruit - - Frida
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - - The Life of David Gale
Solaris - - Adaptation - - Analyze That - - The Hours
Maid in Manhattan - - Treasure Planet - - Punch Drunk Love
Two Weeks Notice - - Catch Me if you Can - - Chicago
Star Trek Nemesis - - The Two Towers - - The Quiet American
25th Hour - Blood Work - - Santa Clause 2 - - Powerpuff Girls
Triple X - - Lilo & Stitch - - Red Dragon - Signs - - Goldmember
The Sum of all Fears - Men in Black 2 - - Spiderman
Lord of the Rings - Panic Room - - About a Boy

17 cinemas in the UK have now been fitted with a digital subtitle and audio
description system to enable people with less than perfect hearing or vision
to enjoy the cinema. One more has been fitted with audio description only.
It is hoped that there will be 75 more this time next year.

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The 17 cinemas below have both subtitle
AND audio description facilities.

LONDON AREA

Odeon Leicester Square, London
22 - 24 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7LQ
(the big famous one!)

Odeon West End, London
40 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7LP
(the smaller Odeon on the square)

Odeon Uxbridge, London
The Chimes Shopping Centre, 302 High Street, Uxbridge, UB8

Odeon Wimbledon, London
Hartfield Road, Wimbledon, London

Warner West End, London
3 Cranbourne Street, London WC3
(on Leicester Square, on the right of the Empire)

Warner Finchley Road, London
255 Finchley Rd, Finchley, London NW3

UGC West India Quay, London
Hertsmere Road, West India Quay, London E14

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Outside London

Odeon Colchester
Head Street, Colchester

Odeon Guildford
Bedford Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4SJ

Odeon Kingston
The Rotunda, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey

Odeon Leicester
Freemans Park, 90 Aylestone Road, Leicester, LE2 7LT

Odeon Newcastle
Newgate Street, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear

UCI Gateshead, Newcastle
Metro Centre, Gateshead Newcastle Upon Tyne NE11 9YZ

UCI Cardiff, Wales
Atlantic Wharf, Hemingway Road, Cardiff CF 10, Wales

Cineworld Wolverhampton
Bentley Bridge Leisure Park, Wednesfield Way,
Wednesfield, Wolverhampton WV11

Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland
12 Rose Street , Glasgow G3 6RB

Moviehouse, Belfast
Yorkgate Shopping Complex,
100-150 York Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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The cinema below has audio description facilities only

Showcase Pontypridd, Wales
Parc Nantgarw, Treforest Industrial Estate, Heol Y Odyn, Nr Pontypridd,
Wales

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Studios and distributors obviously prefer the cheaper, digital solution to
subtitling, which creates a problem - there are not yet enough cinemas with
digital subtitle facilities to cater for the many people who now expect
major releases to be subtitled.

"Think of it like 98% of cinemas having a VCR player, and 2% having a DVD
player, but new films are only available subtitled, on DVD!"

So although subtitled and described, most films are still inaccessible to
the vast majority of the people that they are aimed at - hearing or visually
impaired people in the UK.

It is planned that around 75 more UK cinemas will become accessible over the
next year. Watch the website for information on new cinema locations with
the system installed, and cinemas plans for screenings.

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The following films can be screened subtitled in any cinema. Please ask your
nearest cinema to screen them!

X-Men 2 - - Daredevil - - Die Another Day
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Road to Perdition - - Eight Legged Freaks - - Scooby Doo
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood - - Minority Report
Star Wars Episode II - - Time Machine - - Iris - - Shrek
Pearl Harbor - - Ocean's Eleven - - Monster's Inc
The Mummy Returns - - A Knights Tale - - Ice Age
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - - Pay it Forward
Hannibal - - The Grinch - - Dinosaur - - East is East - - Chicken Run

We are sorry to say that UK distributors have now decided NOT to release
accessible versions of I Spy and Rabbit Proof Fence.

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Many people have been enquiring as to what exactly is going on with UK
subtitled cinema:

Why do we have to travel 50 miles to catch one?
Why do we have to wait months after release date?
Why do films usually only play once?
Why are some popular movies not subtitled?

Let us explain...

An estimated 5 million people in the UK use subtitles to enjoy films. And
although subtitles are the norm on TV, DVD and video, they are NOT available
on most cinema releases. Silent movies are still the norm here, but without
the old captions that helped to explain the plot.

Of the films that are subtitled, the majority are 'digitally subtitled only'
which means that they are incompatible with 98% of UK cinemas. In fact only
17 cinemas in the UK are capable of screening most of the latest subtitled
releases.

These 17 cinemas have been equipped with a new 'access system'. Once a
cinema has the subtitle 'files', they can overlay subtitles onto the latest
films. They don't need a separate subtitled print. The system can be turned
on and off - similar to teletext subtitles on TV, so the screen can be used
for non-subtitled shows too.

The system can also broadcast audio description, for visually impaired
people. The on screen action is described in detail through personal
headphones. This feature has no affect on an audience's enjoyment of a film
and can be left 'on' all of the time. Every show can be an audio described
show.

It is planned that over the next few years at least 50 different films will
be released with these 'access' features. In fact if all goes to plan, most
major films will be released with subtitle and description 'files' (the
files are supplied on disc, separate to the actual film and are downloaded
to a hard disc at the cinema).

So to cater for the large amount of accessible films on the way, this year
the cinema industry plan to make many more of their cinemas accessible to
people with hearing or visual impairments.

Each 'access' system costs less than an average cinemas weekend takings on
one film. Lottery funding (via the Film Council) has been offered to fund
50% of the total cost (over £1 million) and it is planned that at least 75
more cinemas will become accessible.

Locations have yet to be decided but are planned to be spread widely around
the country, so as many people as possible can catch accessible shows.

So that should eliminate the problem of having to travel 50 miles or more to
catch the latest film. It should also eliminate the problem of having to
wait months for a film to come to a cinema near your town, as every cinema
with the system installed will be able to show the subtitled version when
they please.

In most cases, the system will be installed in only ONE screen of a
multi-screen multiplex and therefore will not interfere too much with
'normal' non-subtitled shows.

This vastly improves on the current subtitling system in which a couple of
subtitled film prints are 'toured' around cinemas, resulting in some cinemas
having to screen a Christmas movie the following February. That 'touring'
problem is also the reason why a subtitled film usually only plays for one
day only - it has to be delivered the next day, to the next cinema down the
line. X-Men 2 is currently available in this format (as well as the digital
format).

The new digital system would enable many cinemas to screen a subtitled show
many times, over many weeks, at popular times, simultaneously.

We hope that explains the situation! Any queries, please don't hesitate to
contact us at subtitles@yourlocalcinema.com. Press enquiries welcome

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Exciting News!

If you are one of the millions of UK movie fans with less than perfect
hearing or vision, then 2003 could well be a very happy year for you.

In 2003, the Film Council and the cinema industry plan to work together to
create a network of around 75 accessible cinemas (there are currently less
than 20). If all goes to plan, these cinemas will be equipped with digital
subtitle and audio description facilities.

The Film Council have offered £350,000 to make this happen and have invited
the UK cinema industry to 'match' the amount. This would double the amount
available.

Another £60,000 has been offered to film distributors - to enable smaller
distributors to add subtitles and audio description to their films. This
should ensure a wider choice of accessible films. Again, it is hoped that
film distributors will 'match' the funds - doubling the amount available.

In the words of the Film Council:

"At a time when cinema going in the UK is at a 30 year high, these proposals
are intended to help ensure that in the future the 15 per cent of people in
the UK who experience hearing or visual impairments are able to enjoy going
to the cinema as well as the rest of the population."

Read the BBC News article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2549025.stm

Read 'The Times' newspaper article here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-89-510522,00.html

Read the official Film Council press release here:
http://www.filmcouncil.org.uk/news/?p=1039452967117&qs=&st=

Current accessible cinema locations and films here:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/locations.html