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Sunday May 12, 2013

Sony's Entertainment Access Glasses, seen here in a prototype image, display captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing moviegoers. Sony Entertainment hide caption

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New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies

May 12, 2013 • This is a big moment for the deaf, many of whom haven't been to the movies in a long time. The new glasses display closed captions just for the wearer, and they're headed for 6,000 screens across the country.

New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies

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Tuesday May 7, 2013

Ray Harryhausen, Master Of Stop-Motion Animation, Dies

American film animator and special effects creator Ray Harryhausen with one of his creations in 1965. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

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Ray Harryhausen, Master Of Stop-Motion Animation, Dies

May 7, 2013 • His sword-fighting skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts and models he animated in other movies made him a Hollywood legend. Directors including Steven Spielberg and George Lucas say Harryhausen was an inspiration. He was 92.

Sunday April 7, 2013

Broadcasters Struggle To Tap Into The 'Zero TV' Crowd

April 7, 2013 • Broadcasters will convene in Las Vegas this week to discuss the rapidly-growing demographic of people who don't subscribe to cable or satellite TV services. Instead, more people are watching shows and movies online.

Tuesday February 26, 2013

Amid Oscars Fanfare, Visual Effects Industry Faces Difficult Times

Life of Pi won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects, but the studio that helped bring to life the tiger Richard Parker is now facing bankruptcy in a increasingly volatile industry. AP via Twentieth Century Fox hide caption

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All Tech Considered

Amid Oscars Fanfare, Visual Effects Industry Faces Difficult Times

February 26, 2013 • In a business where effects-laden movies bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, many of the studios that create those effects are barely staying afloat.

Thursday January 10, 2013

'Lincoln' Leads With 12 Oscar Nominations

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The Two-Way

'Lincoln' Leads With 12 Oscar Nominations

January 10, 2013 • Lincoln is among nine movies competing for "best picture." The others: Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty.

Tuesday June 26, 2012

NYT Excerpt: Mysteries Of The Movie Business

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Planet Money

NYT Excerpt: Mysteries Of The Movie Business

June 26, 2012 • The vast majority of movies fail to break even, and no one really knows why the remainder succeed.

Friday May 25, 2012

What A Show! China's Movie Theaters Have Improved Dramatically

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The Two-Way

What A Show! China's Movie Theaters Have Improved Dramatically

May 25, 2012 • NPR's Frank Langfitt can't get over how much things have changed for movie fans such as him. In only a decade or so, China's theaters have gone high-tech. And they've gotten expensive.

Friday July 15, 2011

Shots - Health News

Smoking Down In Movies Kids See

July 15, 2011 • A long-running campaign to discourage the depiction of smoking in movies is paying off. There were far fewer incidents in 2010 than five years earlier. Filmmakers with public policies to reduce smoking in films showed the steepest declines.

Thursday June 30, 2011

Love It Or Hate It: Few Are In Between About 'Tree Of Life'

Part creation epic and part family drama, The Tree of Life stars Jessica Chastain and Brad Pitt as the parents of three boys in the '50s. Merie Wallace/Fox Searchlight Pictures hide caption

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The Two-Way

Love It Or Hate It: Few Are In Between About 'Tree Of Life'

June 30, 2011 • Theater owners say there's a trend: A small percentage of moviegoers always seem to leave before the highly acclaimed film is over. Some even want their money back. Have you ever done that?

Love It Or Hate It: Few Are In Between About 'Tree Of Life'

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Thursday December 30, 2010

Blog Of The Nation

Beautiful Blizzards And Oscar Buzz

December 30, 2010 • Technology meets art meets critic: Jamie Stuart's beautiful movie gets Oscar buzz from world class movie critic Robert Ebert. Watch it here, and then maybe you'll get up the nerve to send your script to Scorsese...

Tuesday December 28, 2010

'Airplane!' And 'Saturday Night Fever' Among Those Added To Film Registry

John Travolta, as Tony Manero, in the classic film Saturday Night Fever, which was just added to the National Film Registry. Central Press/Getty Images hide caption

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