Danny Boyle is getting to work on his follow-up to Slumdog Millionaire, titled 127 Hours. From Variety: Fox Searchlight and Danny Boyle have firmed plans to make their next collaboration "127 Hours," a film that tells the story of mountaineer... CONTINUE READING DANNY BOYLE MOVING FORWARD WITH SLUMMOUNTAIN ONEARMENAIRE»
Posted on November 5, 2009 in
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Tags: 127 Hours | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire
As you may or may not know, I am not a fan of the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Personally, I think that it is a condescending and exploitative after-school-special to make white people feel better about their cultural ignorance and their... CONTINUE READING DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT THE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE KIDS ANYMORE?»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in
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Tags: Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail | Danny Boyle | MGMT | Poverty | Rubina Ali | Slumdog Millionaire
Today, Wes Anderson asks the question: "why was Slumdog [Millionaire] a hit, and not Darjeeling [Limited]?" You provide the answer, in the comments.... CONTINUE READING YOU BE THE BLOG: WES ANDERSON EDITION»
Posted on October 27, 2009 in
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Tags: Danny Boyle | Darjeeling Limited | Slumdog Millionaire | Wes Anderson
(Please know that this hurts me more than it hurts you.) How did he do it: (A) He cheated (B) He's lucky (C) He's a genius (D) It is written (E) None of the above (F) Because obviously this... CONTINUE READING SNOOP DOGG MILLIONAIRE (SORRY! REALLY NOT MY FAULT)»
Posted on August 20, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Regis Philbin | Slumdog Millionaire | Snoop Dogg | Watchmen | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Sorry guys, we have to do the 2009 Academy Awards again, we messed up. After we KILL HITLER, let's point the Time Machine to last February and give all the Oscars to Bollywood He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.... CONTINUE READING BOLLYWOOD HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE IS THE RICH MAN'S SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE»
Posted on July 1, 2009 in
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Tags: Awesome | Bollywood | He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle, the director of Slumdog Millionaire, has just signed a new three-year, first look deal! What wonderful news for him! And his house wasn't even razed! From Variety: Filmmaker Danny Boyle has inked a three-year producing pact with Fox... CONTINUE READING DIRECTOR OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE STILL DOING GREAT!»
Posted on June 12, 2009 in
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Remember how two of the Slumdog Millionaire children have had their homes razed in the past month? Well in what appears to be the first good thing that has happened to any of them since they had the overwhelming privilege... CONTINUE READING ONE OF THE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE CHILDREN WON'T BE SLEEPING IN GARBAGE TONIGHT!»
Posted on June 10, 2009 in
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Tags: Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail | Children | India | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
Rubina Ali, the adorable little girl from Slumdog Millionaire, is writing a book! About her life! Um, she is nine years old! From the AP: Transworld Publishers said Rubina Ali's book will tell the story of her life in the... CONTINUE READING SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE STAR TO PUBLISH LIFE STORY, FINALLY»
Posted on June 5, 2009 in
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Tags: Books | Children | Poverty | Rubina Ali | Slumdog Millionaire
gabe: who do you think should win the coveted Best WTF? Moment at the MTV Movie Awards? lindsay: Well for one thing, it should be something that is actually WTF. Like, Amy Poehler peeing in the sink in Baby Mama?... MTV Movie Awards?'">CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: WHAT SHOULD WIN "MOST WTF MOMENT" AT THE MTV MOVIE AWARDS?»
Posted on May 29, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Andy Samberg | Angelina Jolie | Baby Mama | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Jason Segel | MTV Movie Awards | Slumdog Millionaire | Tropic Thunder | Wanted
Like pretty much everyone who saw it when it came out instead of waiting for months while it got overhyped to the point where it couldn't possibly be experienced objectively and became just a vehicle for late-to-the-game contrarians to practice... CONTINUE READING THE SLUMDOG PRICE IS RIGHT»
Posted on May 18, 2009 in
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Tags: Slumdog Millionaire | The Price Is Right
The home of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, one of the child stars of the smash film Slumdog Millionaire, has been razed by authorities as part of a slum clearing initiative. Showbiz! Whatever, he's a movie star, he's probably going to just... CONTINUE READING THE CHILDREN OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE CONTINUE TO NOT LIVE THE GOOD LIFE»
Posted on May 14, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail | Children | India | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
Comedian Aziz Ansari of Parks And Recreation, Observe And Report, Funny People, His Blog, his Twitter, his stand-up comedy, and being friends with Kanye West had a refreshing interview on Jimmy Kimmel Friday night in which he laid out the... CONTINUE READING AZIZ ANSARI TALKS ABOUT HIS FRIEND KANYE ON JIMMY KIMMEL»
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Tags: Aziz Ansari | Funny People | Jimmy Kimmel | Kanye West | Observe And Report | Parks And Recreation | Slumdog Millionaire
More terrible news for the children of Slumdog Millionaire, of course. Woof. Well, this is what happens when you exploit people for "art" and, more importantly, "profit." It turns families against each other and ruins communities. But wasn't that Bollywood... CONTINUE READING THE POST SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE WORLD IS ON A RACE TO THE WORST»
Posted on April 21, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Child Actors | Danny Boyle | Fox News | Poverty | Rubina Ali | Slumdog Millionaire
The UK's News of the World published an EXPLOSIVE article this weekend claiming at the father of Rubina Ali, the cute little girl from Slumdog Millionaire, a music video about how magical poverty is, tried to sell her for £200,000... CONTINUE READING THE GIRL FROM SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE MAYBE BUT PROBABLY NOT FOR SALE»
Posted on April 20, 2009 in
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Tags: Poverty | Rubina Ali | Slumdog Millionaire
Those cute kids from Slumdog Millionaire were models in a fashion show over the weekend. Perfect. They even got to keep the clothes, which I believe if you boil long enough ARE edible. Setting aside my hate and my cynicism... CONTINUE READING THE CHILDREN OF MUMBAI ARE DRESSED FOR SUCCESS (SUCCESS = CLEAN DRINKING WATER)»
Posted on March 23, 2009 in
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Tags: Fashion | Slumdog Millionaire
Snoop Dogg has titled his newest single Snoop Dogg Millionaire. Smart. In your face, Pussycat Dolls. Six clowns can play at this game. ... CONTINUE READING THE CHILDREN OF MUMBAI ARE LOGGING ONTO ZSHARE AS WE SPEAK»
Posted on March 19, 2009 in
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Tags: Arctic Monkeys | Slumdog Millionaire | Snoop Dogg
Aww. What a wonderful celebration of love, music, abject poverty, and aerobic stripper dances! MY FAVORITE PART IS THE NEW NOKIA WITH A TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE! a) he cheated b) he's lucky c) he's a genius d) it was written... CONTINUE READING THE CHILDREN OF MUMBAI LOVE THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS REMIX OF "JAI HO"»
Posted on March 13, 2009 in
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Tags: Jai Ho | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire | The Pussycat Dolls
Gross. Apparently, there's nothing Slumdog Millionaire cannot do. It can outperform heavyweight films at the box office, win eight Oscars out of nine nominations -- and even help Americans lose weight! Dancing to the tunes of Slumdog Millionaire has become... CONTINUE READING SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE IS LIKE MOUSERCIZE BUT WITH POOR PEOPLE»
Posted on March 6, 2009 in
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Tags: Exercise | Slumdog Millionaire
Barack Obama told reporters today that he's a Slumdog fan. (Now we just have to make sure he never says he liked Crash.)... CONTINUE READING BARACK OBAMA LOVES SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE»
Posted on February 24, 2009
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Tags: Barack Obama | Slumdog Millionaire
The AP reports that as Slumdog racked up win after win last night, the narrow, trash-strewn streets of Mumbai's slums were filled with joyous celebration as friends and family and well-wishers of the film's star children gathered around the few... CONTINUE READING GOODBYE, CUTE CHILDREN OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, GOODBYE»
Posted on February 23, 2009 in
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Tags: Academy Awards | India | of Montreal | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
Can you feel the artificially manufactured excitement? Hugh Jackman should pee his pants any minute now! We'll be livetweeting the red carpet, Barbara, and of course, the actual show ALL NIGHT via twitter.com/videogum after the jump (and if you reply... CONTINUE READING THIS IS OUR 2009 OSCAR LIVEBLOG. »
Posted on February 22, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Academy Awards | Hugh Jackman | Kate Winslet | Sean Penn | Slumdog Millionaire
(Spoiler alert for the video, but really, you should see the movie already. It's great.) Slumdog Millionaire is winning lots of awards, as it should, and if we learned anything last year in particular, movies that win lots of awards... CONTINUE READING THE FIRST OF PROBABLY MANY SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE PARODIES»
Posted on December 19, 2008 in ,
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So I saw and loved this movie last weekend, Slumdog Millionaire. I don't have anything to say about it that hasn't already been said, but I thought it was amazing and the best movie I've seen this year. ANYWAY, the... CONTINUE READING CAN YOUR PARENTS HANDLE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE?»
Posted on November 26, 2008 in
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Tags: Slumdog Millionaire
Did you hear about Twilight's amazing weekend? Joel McHale put Twilight-mania into perspective on Friday's The Soup. It's much better than the Twilight/Gossip Girl mashup. It gets really really funny: Interestingly, the movie that really won this weekend was Slumdog... CONTINUE READING THE SOUP PUTS TWILIGHT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE»
Posted on November 25, 2008 in
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Tags: Slumdog Millionaire | The Soup | Twilight
