Slumdog Millionaire Articles

Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Coriolanus Much like the Gotham Awards and the Spirit Awards, the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) don't have much influence on eventual awards-season favorites. Independent films generally do well with U.S. critics and organizations only when they have the backing of a subsidiary of a major Hollywood studio, e.g., Fox Searchlight, or influential mid-level distributors such as The Weinstein Company. Else, [...]

Kristen Stewart as a pole dancer/sex worker in Jake Scott's Welcome to the Rileys Kristen Stewart's WELCOME TO THE RILEYS: My Own Private Controversy: Part I @Puaena: I have an idea why it is underperforming. I think Kristen fans showed up as much as they could but the middling reviews probably didn't bring in anything to build on that base. It didn't really have a [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire received a phenomenal boost during the year-end awards season, especially as a result of its eight Academy Award nominations and subsequent eight wins. Fourteen Oscar nods and eleven wins certainly didn't hurt James Cameron's Titanic, either, while Rob Marshall's musical Chicago collected nearly two-thirds of its grosses and Clint Eastwood's Million [...]

Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight) The early-bird 2010 Grammy Awards ceremony is currently taking place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The televised portion of the ceremony will begin at 8pm this evening. Organizers have to do it in two installments: the Grammys hand out 21,389 awards. Those couldn't all be part of the televised show, or it'd run well into the [...]