6 posts tagged “danny boyle”
Slumdog Millionaire is doing great business in the U.S. (where it has risen to the top place again), and in other countries. Here is a good article from that I got from Box Office Mojo about the movie's continuous success ...
http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2556&p=.htm
Here are a couple of paragraphs from the article ...
Slumdog Millionaire climbed to the top of the foreign box office over the weekend, grossing $16 million from 34 markets (three smaller markets remain unreported) for a $96.5 million total. The Best Picture winner rose 85 percent from the previous weekend, and its biggest single country increase was in Italy (up 556 percent). In the United Kingdom, it regained the lead with a seven percent boost, and it saw sizable bumps in Australia (53 percent to second place), France (61 percent) and Spain (73 percent), where it was No. 1 ahead of The Pink Panther 2's opening. In India, where Slumdog hasn't performed as well as recent local titles Delhi 6 or Chandni Chowk to China, it grew by 470 percent, pushing its total there to $6.3 million.
Slumdog was victorious in its debuts as well.
It led in Hong Kong with $1 million (which was the second biggest
opening of the year) and in Croatia with $170,419 from 10 screens (the
biggest opening in the last four months), and it was second in Poland
with $715,677. Still on the horizon for Slumdog are Sweden
(March 6), Germany and South Korea (March 19), Japan (April 18), and
the picture will likely receive a China release at some point.
The soundtrack is doing amazing business, too. It has risen to #4 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart, and it is considered the "Greatest Gainer" on the chart right now. Remember, M.I.A. (who appears on 3 songs on the soundtrack) has a record label called NEET that distributed the soundtrack. NEET is a part of Interscope Records. M.I.A. is going to help Afrikan Boy and Rye Rye release albums on the record label, too.
On an entirely different note, here is "Bridges and Balloons" by Joanna Newsom just because I am listening to it right now ...
Here is a decent article from a recent issue of TIME magazine ...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1874832,00.html
http://www.oscar.com/nominees/?pn=film&film=Slumdog%20Millionaire%20Film
The 81st Oscar Nominations came out recently, and Slumdog Millionaire has at least 10 of them ...
Two songs from the film are also nominated for best song ...
Here are the two songs that are nominated ...
"O Saya"
"Jai Ho"
The soundtrack of "Slumdog Millionaire", which features 3 M.I.A. songs (one that A R Rahman did with her, of course) has risen to #16 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart. I think that is pretty amazing.
The soundtrack has also risen to #5 on Amazon's MP3 Downloads chart and to #6 (I think it has actually beeen #1 at one time) on iTunes top albums chart ...
Here is one of my favorite songs from the soundtrack that I have not posted before ...
"Liquid Dance"
In other news, here is the funniest scene ever from "Saved By The Bell" ...
Yes, I know, that last video is totally random, but it is fun to make of.
M.I.A. contributed some vocals to this song, "O ... Saya", from the movie, Slumdog Millionaire (see how much money it has made so far here), which is still not showing in Austin. I am going to see it as soon as it shows up in a theater here. It shouldn't be too long.
This "O ... Saya" song is wonderful. I know it has a lot of elements of traditional and current Indian music in it, but it also reminds me of the music Vangelis did for "Blade Runner". M.I.A.'s voice goes perfectly with it. It kind of makes me think of M.I.A.'s music from the future or something weird like that.
Here is the song on YouTube ...
You can buy the song on iTunes if you like. I hope it will be available on Amazon's MP3 Downloads section soon because I hate buying stuff from iTunes.
In other news, the mixtape, "Top Ranking", by Diplo and Santogold just keeps getting better.
The album is a continuous mix so I am going to post 2 songs below, but you need to think of them as one song since there is no pause between them on the album.
There is this Danny Boyle film that is out right now in limited release called "Slumdog Millionaire". I think the movie takes place in India, and the main languages in the movie are Hindi and English and a combination of Hindi and English. Anyway, the movie is getting stellar reviews, and it sounds really cool. M.I.A.'s song, "Paper Planes", is featured in the movie. I think there are actually two versions of the song used in the movie, but I could be wrong about that. I want to see it just because it sounds good, but the fact that it has her music in the movie will be an added bonus.
Ladyhawke's self-titled album is finally available for download on the U.S. version of Amazon.com. You can download it here. There is something very refreshing about Ladyhawke's music. Her voice is very easy to listen to, and she combines just the right amount of electronic and retro sounds into her music.
Here is Ladyhawke's song, Morning Dreams (this is the slowest song on the album) ...
Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" ...
Danny Boyle also did Trainspotting and 28 Days Later. Underworld is doing the soundtrack for Sunshine, just like they did for Trainspotting.
