10 posts tagged “slumdog millionaire”
I thought this was interesting ...
Here is a behind the scenes video ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zs60ie2H_g (it can't be embedded so just click on the link if you want to see it)
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 ...
Download a 20-minute megamix of M.I.A.'s song by DJ AKOL ...
Watch the mix on YouTube (it had to be split into 2 videos since it is longer than 10 minutes) ...
Here is DJ AKOL's MySpace ...
http://www.myspace.com/akoldirtyproduction
In other news, "Slumdog Millionaire" did really well at the Oscars. The film was nominated for 10 awards, and it won 8 of them. It won for best song and best score, which is great for A R Rahman. M.I.A.'s song with Rahman, called "O ... Saya" did not win, but the very catchy song, "Jai Ho", from the end of the movie did win. However, M.I.A. did win in a way because her record label, NEET, is behind the distribution of the soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire so the better the soundtrack does, the more success for her record label. Her next project with her record label will be to release Rye Rye's first album.
I am amazed at how well Slumdog Millioniare is doing at the box office. It is on its way to making over $100 million domestically, and it has already made around $160 million overall (over $60 million internationally). The movie only cost $15 million to make so it is truly a success.
Here is a list of all the winners at the 81st annual Academy Awards ...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/22/oscar.nominees.full.list/index.html
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.
I was watching the following trailer for "Slumdog Millionaire" ...
and at 52 seconds, I heard this woman's voice singing, and it sounded like M.I.A. to me, but it turned out to be a song called "Great DJ" by The Tings Tings. Here is the video for the song ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJnsqGgxxM (Embedding has been disabled for this video so you'll have to just go to the link)
You can also watch the video here ...
Here is the audio ...
The Tings Tings - Great DJ
In other news, I really like the song, "Say You Will", by Kanye West from his 808s & Heartbreak album. It reminds me a lot of "Venus" by Air. I love the minimalist vibe to it. I also think the song has some really good lines like "I wish this song would really come true".
Kanye West - Say You Will
This is an old remix of an old song, "Ray of Light", by Madonna. I listened to this Ray of Light remix CD-single as I drove home from the DFW area back to Austin today. The traffic was extremely annoying, but music can make everything better.
I got to see "Slumdog Millionaire" with my friend, Cristen, on Christmas night at the Magnolia theater in Dallas. The movie was great, and I like the soundtrack even more now. I loved the child actors in the movie. They were all very talented. The other actors were good, too, of course. I was happy to see the theater packed. I think this movie will just keep doing better and better business as more people hear of it, and I know it will win some more awards soon.
Ringa Ringa is on the soundtrack to "Slumdog Millionaire". The song is by A R Rahman, Ila Arun, and Alka Yagnik. I the sound sounds pretty cool. I made a little video for it (I think I went overboard with the transitions) ...
I couldn't get the quality right, though, so it came out blurry again. Damn!
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) ...
