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Slumdog Millionaire at 15: Revisiting a Divisive Cross-Culture Phenomenon

November 13, 2023 by admin

Hasitha Fernando revisits Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire as it turns 15… Depending on where you’re from you will either love or hate Slumdog Millionaire, plain and simple. Where some will find an emotionally gratifying story, others will certainly take offense of and label it as poverty pornography. And so, on its 15th anniversary we […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Danny Boyle, Dev Patel, frieda pinto, Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

The Full Monty to reunite for Disney+ limited series

March 28, 2022 by Matt Rodgers

Here’s some news as surprising as the $250M worldwide gross that The Full Monty managed to dance its way towards in 1997; a Disney+ spin-off starring the original cast began filming in Sheffield today. The series will pick up 25 years after those hats were tossed in the air, with  Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting), Mark Addy […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, News, Television Tagged With: Disney, Hugo Speer, Mark Addy, Paul Barber, Robert Carlyle, Simon Beaufoy, Steve Huison, The Full Monty, Tom Wilkinson

Danny Boyle to direct Michael B. Jordan in Methuselah

May 18, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle has signed on to direct Michael B. Jordan in Warner Bros.’ long-planned Methuselah, while his Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours collaborator Simon Beaufoy will rework the script. Methuselah has been in development for around a decade now, with Tom Cruise attached to star at one point, and is based upon the […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Danny Boyle, Methuselah, Michael B. Jordan, Simon Beaufoy

New trailer for Danny Boyle’s Getty kidnap drama Trust

February 14, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

Ahead of its season premiere on FX next month, a second trailer has arrived online for Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy’s upcoming anthology series Trust which is based on the story of the real life kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson) and stars Donald Sutherland as oil baron J. Paul Getty alongside Hilary Swank, Brendan […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, News, Television, Trailers Tagged With: Brendan Fraser, Danny Boyle, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Swank, Michael Esper, Simon Beaufoy, Trust

Watch the trailer for Danny Boyle’s Getty kidnapping series Trust

January 9, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

FX has revealed a trailer for its upcoming anthology series Trust. Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy, it revolves around the true story of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and stars Donald Sutherland, Harris Dickinson, Hilary Swank, Brendan Fraser, and Michael Esper; watch the trailer here… “The first installment takes place […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, News, Television, Trailers Tagged With: Brendan Fraser, Danny Boyle, Donald Sutherland, Harris Dickinson, Hilary Swank, Michael Esper, Simon Beaufoy, Trust

Simon Beaufoy adapting In the Skin of a Lion

June 23, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is set to adapt Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 novel In the Skin of a Lion for Serendipity Point Films, Film4 and Potboiler Films. The novel explores the lives of immigrants who played a large role in the building of the city of Toronto in the early 1900s and focuses on romance and […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: In the Skin of a Lion, Simon Beaufoy

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