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The Academy Awards are typically dominated by Hollywood blockbusters that end up dubbed into dozens of languages, to be seen on movie screens all across the globe. But American film studios, like Sony Pictures and Universal Pictures, are going global in a different way too. They are making movies specifically for foreign markets in their local languages. Courtney Brannon Donoghue, a cinema studies professor at Oakland University, has looked into this trend. (Photo: The entrance of Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, 2014. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)