Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire has crossed the $200m (£140m) mark in box office takings around the world, according to figures in Variety.
The film industry daily says the Mumbai-based movie, which cost $15m to make, has now taken $217m at cinemas.
Slumdog is enjoying a further bounce at the box office after picking up eight Oscars at February’s Academy Awards.
Fox Searchlight, which released the rags-to-riches tale, said it expects the box office total to exceed $250m.
The company’s Steve Gilula told the paper: “It’s extraordinary. Very, very few films get past $200 million …

India is expecting A R Rahman to bring home the Oscar. No wonder he is nervous
In the wake of Slumdog Millionaire, AR Rahman’s triumphant streak continues. And how!
This week, he walked away with the prestigious BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) awards for his music in Slumdog Millionaire.
An exhausted but exhilarated Rahman said from London, “It came as surprise, not because I didn’t expect it but, because it was announced too soon. Mine was one of the first awards to be announced. I got it from one of …

Rags-to-riches story “Slumdog Millionaire” continued its fairy-tale journey Sunday, winning seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards and sealing its place as favorite for the Oscars later this month.
Kate Winslet and Mickey Rourke also gained Oscar momentum with acting wins — Winslet for her role as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in “The Reader,” Rourke for his career-reviving performance as a washed-up athlete in “The Wrestler.” Heath Ledger won a posthumous supporting actor award for The Dark Knight.”
“It’s such a pleasure to be back here, …

London (IANS): Indian-origin British actor Dev Patel won the loudest cheer from fans as he walked up the red carpet for the Bafta awards ceremony.
The “Slumdog Millionaire” actor, who comes from an ordinary family in the London suburb of Harrow, received a deafening welcome from fans when he joined the red carpet at the Royal Opera House on Sunday night, Sky News reported.
The cheers were louder than those for Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. But Dev, 18, told Sky he was yet to perfect his showbiz smile, saying: …

This year’s race for the Oscars for best original song and best original score is getting way more attention than usual.
In part for who’s in it and also for those who’ve been left out. Bruce Springsteen’s intense song that plays over the closing credits of Darren Oronofsy’s The Wrestler seemed like a sureshot to make it to this years list of best original song nominations after it won the Golden Globe in the same category. But to everyones surprise the Boss’ song was overlooked by the academy. Instead it was …

MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) – Rubina Ali is already a Hollywood star, and now the 9-year-old “Slumdog Millionaire” actress, who lives in a one-room shack with her family in a Mumbai slum, has her eyes firmly set on Bollywood.
Her dream has been whetted by the clamorous media attention and glitzy parties that followed the Mumbai premiere of the Oscar-nominated movie, a rags-to-riches tale of a young boy from a Mumbai slum, in which Ali plays the leading lady as a girl.
“I like films. I like poems and I like my school,” …

Slumdog Millionaire has been making headlines for the number of Oscar nominations that it has garnered and the Golden Globes that it has won.
However, this one individual associated with this film has been blessed with success at every step that he took in his career. But he has not once taken it for granted; instead he has worked even harder to outdo himself. He is none other than A R Rahman.
This month in People magazine, musician A R Rahman opens up about the philosophy that makes him a great artist. …

London (IANS): Oscar-frontrunner “Slumdog Millionaire” is probably being targeted by an organised tinsel-town smear campaign with an eye on gate receipts, British and US newspapers say.
“Could an organised smear campaign be about to derail the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’?” The Independent said on Saturday after the film’s makers were hit by a barrage of negative publicity this week.
The British filmmakers have been accused of peddling “poverty porn” and of underpaying and exploiting child actors from the slums, forcing the director, producer and distributor to issue point-by-point denials.
A commentary …

Slumdog Millionaire: Simply Brilliant
Rating: 4 out of 5
Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan
Director: Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire opens with 18-year-old slum kid Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) being arrested on suspicion of cheating after being one question away from winning Rs. 20 million on India’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? After enduring some rather nasty torture, he tells the police officer (Irrfan Khan) the story of his life, where incredibly, each episode holds the key to one of the questions he’s answered.
Jamal’s story begins in the Mumbai …

London: Slumdog Millionaire’s golden run continues. The film is all set for the Oscars next month with 10 nominations to its credit, three of which belong to A R Rahman.
The film has already bagged four Golden Globes and 11 Bafta nominations. Commercially too, it has already grossed over $40 million in the US, where it released in November and is setting new records in the UK.
In less than a fortnight since its British release, film has grossed over £7 million, making it the film with the most successful second weekend …