Slumdog Millionaire.
- It’s a 2008 British epic romantic drama adventure film.
- It was directed by Danny Boyle.
- Slumdog Millionaire had a nationwide grand release in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2009 and in the United States on 12 November 2008.
- It premiered in Mumbai on 22 January 2009.
- The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight (the most for any film of 2008).
- It also won seven BAFTA Awards (including Best Film), five Critics' Choice Awards, and four Golden Globes, so it was a very successful film.
- By the summer of 2006, British production companies Celador Films and Film4 Productions invited director Danny Boyle to read the script of Slumdog Millionaire.
- He didn’t originally want to do the film. Since he was not interested in making a film about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- It had a budget of $15million.
- Warner Independent Pictures made a $5 million offer to win rights to the picture.
Four Lions.
- Four Lions is a 2010 British satirical comedy film.
- It is the debut feature from director Chris Morris, written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong.
- Morris spent three years researching the project, speaking to terrorism experts, police, the secret service, and imams, as well as ordinary Muslims, and writing the script in 2007.
- The project was originally rejected by both the BBC and Channel 4 as being too controversial.
- Morris opened a mass email account titled "Funding Mentalism", that fans could contribute between £25 and £100 each to the production costs of the film and would appear as extras in return.
- Funding was secured in October 2008 from Film 4 Productions and Warp Films, with Mark Herbert producing.
- They began filming in Sheffield in May 2009.
- The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010.
- Four Lions was released in the UK on DVD and Blu-Ray on 30 August 2010, and was released in the US 8 March 2011.
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