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Danny Boyle Opens Door To Unlikely Movie Source Materials
11:14AM Richard Rushfield | Once when searching for the stuff of films, we looked towards epic military confrontations and doomed luxury liners. But today director Danny Boyle has ushered in a new age of blockbuster films about the most agonisingly boring stories imaginable. More »
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Hollywood’s Recession Is Over, Declares Murdoch
5:35AM Richard Rushfield | Just like Murdoch to go and ruin everything for everyone. Just when the studios had a great excuse with this recession thing to slash salaries and fire everyone in sight, along comes Rupert singing “Happy Days are Here Again.” More »
Thanks For Letting Us Use You, Slumdog Kids, Here Are Some Houses
6:20AM Defamer Hollywood | Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire depicts children dwelling in the utmost of impoverished hellscapes. The film used actual slum kids, but don’t worry they weren’t exploited! Cuz they’re totally getting houses now! They’ll be just fine. More »Danny Boyle Wants To Do One For the Ladies
5:55AM STV | Danny Boyle’s next: A chick flick? [Variety via HE] More »
Now It’s Just Getting Ridiculous: ‘Slumdog’ Sweeps BAFTA Awards
1:50AM STV | As the last awards stopover for two weeks before the Oscars, the Orange British Academy Film Awards could have made things fun by rejecting Slumdog Millionaire just for the hell of it. Oh well. More »
Danny Boyle Sees His Shadow At DGA’s, We Get Three More Weeks Of Awards Season
1:55AM STV | Now it’s just getting ridiculous: Hollywood squandered its only shot at a competitive Oscar season on Saturday when the Directors Guild of America gave its top prize to Danny Boyle. More »
‘Slumdog’ Yawned Best Picture At Critics Choice Awards
4:35AM STV | Congrats — again — to Slumdog Millionaire director and Critics Choice Award winner Danny Boyle, just about the nicest guy you’ve ever wished would please take his Oscar and end awards season, already. More »
Joel Silver, ‘Rocknrolla’ Among the Inventory on Display at Warner Bros. Fire Sale
2:20AM STV | Add another “maybe” to our speculation about Joel Silver’s future at Warner Bros.: Reports today indicate that the slumping superproducer is shopping around Guy Ritchie’s Rocknrolla, a Dark Castle project scheduled for release by WB in October. Maybe. Now Lionsgate and Sony are supposedly in talks to pick up the action/crime thriller lest Warners overextend itself this fall with titles inherited from New Line (Pride and Glory), Picturehouse (The Women) and Warner Independent (Slumdog Millionaire, Towelhead). More »
If You Didn’t See ‘Sunshine’, Here’s Your Chance To Become A Worthwhile Member Of The Human Race Once More
11:05AM Clem Bastow | We’re not usually prone to fits of the ‘do yourself a favours’, but we were bitterly disappointed at how few people managed to see Danny Boyle’s splendiferous Sunshine, starring Cillian Murphy and Our Rose Byrne, earlier this year.
The US critics didn’t “get it” and neither did most local audiences, but we truly thought (and it wasn’t the post-mix talking) that it was one of the finest sci-fi/psychological thriller/”space peril” films of recent memory – even with its slightly Event Horizon twist towards the final reel – and, if nothing else, the film looks beautiful.
It was loosely inspired by one of our favourite books, Moondust by Andrew Smith, thus looking less at the end-of-the-world scenario the whole “sun going out” theme suggests, and more at just what might happen to people’s minds on deep space journeys (but without the cheesiness of Armageddon’s “My god… He’s got… space dementia!” moment). Also, the score by Underworld and John Murphy, and the sound design by Glenn Freemantle, make a viewing worthwhile even if you think the flick itself is pants.
It has just been released to rent in Australia and we heartily recommend you see it. As you were. More » 