2009: Best Year for Movies in US History
Also: Hear about the year’s best books. And listen to songs from hot artists we missed earlier in the year but who have made waves in the music world. Transcript of radio broadcast:
31 December 2009
HOST:
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I'm Faith Lapidus.
Happy New Year! Before we look ahead to two thousand ten, we want to talk about some of the best movies and books of two thousand nine.
And we play some great music we did not have a chance to play last year.
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Best Movies
HOST:
Two thousand nine was the best year in history for movies in the United States. Movies earned more than ten billion dollars in ticket sales last year. This was helped by the steady increase in movie ticket prices. Shirley Griffith tells us about some of the best movies of last year.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH:
Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in "Avatar"Americans spent a record two hundred seventy-eight million dollars on movie tickets last weekend. The 3-D science fiction adventure movie, "Avatar," was the most popular film that weekend. Reports say "Avatar" cost more than three hundred million dollars to produce. Several film critics called it one of the best movies of last year.
"Avatar" uses special effects that have never been seen before in a movie. It combines live action, motion-capture, animation and computer-produced images. The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future.
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