Ewan McGregor says no to Porno

Trainspotting was a huge success. It made stars of Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlysle. There have long been rumours that they would all get together after a suitable number of years had passed to film the Irvine Welsh sequel, Porno.

However, Filmstalker have this little quote from Ewan McGregor which puts a bit of a spanner in the works.

I didn't think the book was very good. The novel of Trainspotting was quite fantastic ... and then I find that the sequel ... it didn't move me as much.

Renton walks away with all the money at the end again. And I thought I don't
want to make the same story again. And, also, I think just the idea of getting
the cast together again 10 to 15 years later isn't good enough, you need more
than that.

Looks like Ewan won't be up for Porno then.

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Slumdog Millionaire - Pussycat Dolls Jai Ho You Are My Destiny

Can someone tell me what the other women do in the band? Surely they should be called the Pussycat Doll?

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The Random - And Soon The Darkness, Danny Boyle, The 28th Amendment, Dinner for Schmucks, Once Upon a Time, Resistance, Delorean,

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter Amber Heard and Odette Yustman will be starring in And Soon the Darkness. The film is a remake of a 1970 British thriller and it's being co-produced and co-financed by Studio Canal. Set in Argentina the film follows two girls from America who take a bike-riding trip in a far off part of the country. Eventually one of them goes missing and the other must find her before it gets dark.

Danny Boyle has denied reports that he will direct a remake of Chan-wook Park's "Lady Vengeance" reports MTV News. "No I was never going to do that. I don't know where that story came from" says Boyle. A rep later told the site that Boyle being linked to helm the next JAmes Bond film is also untrue - "While Danny says he always has and always will enjoy the Bond movies he has no plans to direct one. Danny is naturally flattered to be thought of"" The denials come as the rumor emerged today that Boyle has been asked by Sony Pictures to helm the remake of "My Fair Lady".

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ("The Lives of Others") is in talks to direct Tom Cruise-led drama "The 28th Amendment" for Warner Bros. Pictures reports the trades. The drama revolves around a U.S. president who discovers the existence of a secret cabal that runs the government and wants him dead.

Jay Roach's comedy "Dinner for Schmucks" is finally getting into production says Variety.
A remake of Francis Veber's 1998 French comedy "Le Diner des cons", the project suffered a number of setbacks when original star Sacha Baron Cohen had to pull out. Steve Carell and Paul Rudd have now cleared their schedules for the project when it kicks off shooting in October.

MGM has acquired Charles Vignola, Kevin Marcus and Bradley Marcus' original comedy screenplay "Once Upon a Time ..." says The Hollywood Reporter. "Once's" humorous quest story plays with fairy-tale convention in the vein of the "Shrek" movies and "The Princess Bride."

Big Rich Films has optioned Owen Sheers' WW2 novel "Resistance" says Variety. Amit Gupta will write and direct the pic, which is set in an alternative 1944 where Russia has fallen to Nazi Germany and the D-Day landings have failed. With Britain now half-occupied by German forces, the women in an isolated Welsh border valley awake one morning to discover all their husbands have mysteriously disappeared.

A biopic of maverick auto executive John Z. DeLorean is in the works reports Variety. The story will chronicle DeLorean's rise and fall as a young executive VP at General Motors where he developed the Pontiac GTO and Firebird, along with the creation of his own company and the DeLorean DMC-12 famous for its "Back to the Future" appearance. In 1982 he was arrested on charges of drug trafficking to help his faltering auto company but was later freed two years later after a court ruled he was a victim of government entrapment.

Alfred Molina ("Spider-Man 2," "Chocolat") is set to star as an evil magician in the Disney tentpole fantasy "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" says The Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on an average college student (Jay Baruchel) who is reluctantly recruited to work for a sorcerer named Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage).

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Oscars Acceptance Speech - Danny Boyle - Best Director

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Danny Boyle and Darren Aronofsky hang out

In this video directors Danny Boyle and Darren Aronofsky hang out and discuss their work. Aronofsky talks about how Mickey Rourke improvised some of his scenes, and Boyle compliments him profusely.

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BAFTA 2009 - Some speeches

The late Heath Ledger is named best supporting actor for playing The Joker in The Dark Knight.

Mickey Rourke is named best actor for playing Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in The Wrestler.

Slumdog Millionaire is named Best Film.

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) is named Best Director.

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Danny Boyle talks about 28 Months Later, remaking Lady Vengeance, Judge Dredd and Porno

Empire Online recently held a webchat with Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle who, while talking about future projects, revealed that he's been asked to direct an English-language remake of Chan-wook Park's Lady Vengeance. Here are some of the snippets from the chat below, where he also discusses the 28 Days Later franchise and more.

Kinema asks: What do you think of the Asian Film Industry, mainly South Korea and Hong Kong? A lot of South Korean movies are being made into US Remakes. Would you ever consider remaking a good South Korean movie, maybe Oldboy?

Seriously, I was just asked to do a remake of Lady Vengeance, the one after Oldboy. My favourite is Audition.

Ruffcut asks: How close did you come to directing Alien 4?

Oh my God, that one. Very close actually. In fact I met Sigourney and Winona, which was a great pleasure. Had chips – French fries I should say – with Winona. But I backed out of it. I was terrified of the special effects.

Film Brain asks: What was it like to make something like Slumdog Millionaire after the rather dark Sunshine?

Bits of Slumdog are quite dark early on. It's not quite the feelgood movie of the decade all the way through. But the contrast between the isolation of outer space and the 21+ million inhabitants of Mumbai was welcome.

thebestnameshavegone asks: Is there any news regarding Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy which you were mooted to be involved with?

Oh God, yeah. It's fallen apart. Frank Cotrell Boyce (Millions) and I were going to do it for DreamWorks but sadly no longer. Sorry about that - wonderful novel(s).

brent71195 asks: Any plans for the Judge Dredd movie Danny? Are you a fan or is it just something that interests you?

Where has this come from? Someone asked me about Judge Dredd the other day! Well... ha! I hated the last version of it; I can't imagine the next one will be any better.

djimi42 asks: What is the future of the 28 Days franchise? Is there any possibility you could direct 28 Months Later?

Yeah, we've got a good idea for the third one. Very strange. And sadly we've run out of time to tell you about it...

blackmores hat asks: Can I ask what's the state of play on Porno?

Just waiting for the original actors to age. Help them if you can. Take them out drinking - get them away from the spas and those moisturisers.

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SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE vs ADDICTIVE TV (official remix / alternative trailer)

Meticulously sampling the movie for its vibrant sounds and images, and reconstructing them into this fast-paced audiovisual remix mash-up, Addictive TV were asked by the film's producers to give Slumdog Millionaire their unique treatment.

Danny Boyle's forthcoming film - which opens January 9th - looks set to be a big hit. The film, already nominated for the Golden Globes and tipped for the Oscars, tells the story of a kid from the slums of Mumbai who gets to go on India's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

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Slumdog Millionaire, 2008 - Movie Review

Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto
Running Time: 120 minutes
Score: 8 /10

This review by Chris Docker

In his most mainstream movie to date, director Danny Boyle successfully transfers Trainspotting's renowned raw realism of economic deprivation to bustling, modern day India. Colourful and ingenious, Slumdog Millionaire adds that pure warmth of the child's smile to the kick of a curry made from a moneylender's intestines, well-laced with raw spirit distilled from fermented slum-dwellers. Rich and poor come together in an orgy of excess, bolstered with a love-song whose words you barely decipher but whose tune stays in your heart. Boyle has been reborn in Mumbai.

India is a country of inimitable charm. Yet asked to describe what is good, I am usually stuck for words. It's dirty. Corrupt. Unreliable. Disingenuous. It leeches off you like a starving African stealing food at a Band-Aid concert. Oh, and it stinks. Quite literally.

Yet, if you lean your weight against the old buildings near the Taj Mahal, something magical can happen. Somehow it is easy to feel your spirit leave the body. It will flow back through thousands of years of rich and vibrant history. Gandharvas and mythical kings. Back in reality, look up at the monkeys as they scamper across parapets, the sun dazzling you, and Hanuman and Lord Krishna echo from past aeons. Or walk through the mess that is modern Mumbai. Suddenly there's the architectural wonder of the railway station. An incongruently colonial splendour bizarrely appearing in the teeming twenty-first century.

Slumdog Millionaire uses the Taj Mahal and Mumbai Station as iconic reference points, rising from the dirt and chaos. Like the boy dressed as Rama, who pops up early in the film. Timeless and almost mythological. But conflict simmers broodingly beneath such visual wonder. Muslim versus Hindu. Strong versus weak. And Slumdog versus Millionaire. Something says the twain ne'er shall meet, so when a kid from the slums succeeds on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, everyone is suspicious.

On the other hand, unpredictability is the norm in India. The sense of this is so strong it could almost be described as 'spiritual.' Disconcertingly, it is easy to believe that India is a land where miracles could still occur. Even a child of the slums becoming fabulously rich.

The freshness with which Boyle paints the country, the punchy editing and charismatic performances, all conspire against our recognising this is a standard against-all-odds story, a standard rags-to-riches, and a standard do-anything-to-get-the-girl. It is standard pulp. But done so well we barely notice. He has put together a film of surprising maturity, and perhaps his first to win general audiences in a big way. It's a film that uses lessons from Boyle's earlier movies – the gross-out shock value of Trainspotting, the lovable rogues of Shallow Grave, the exoticism of The Beach and the bold visual experimentation of 28 Days Later and Sunshine. It repackages them in feelgood form for all but the most delicate of tastes.

True, the sight of a young boy diving through an ocean of sewage (with filmstar photo held aloft) recalls the stronger images from Trainspotting. But here it is done for humour and too brief to be offensive. Everything about the film is refreshingly clever and a delight to watch. If occasionally there are subtitles, they are inventively inserted at interesting places on the screen with their own background colours.

The plot starts just before the question that lays the golden egg and cuts engagingly back through the boy's life using flashbacks. Why is he being tortured? How did he get on the show? Why doesn't he care about the money? In the background is his love, Latika, whom he has known since childhood. Both orphaned, she saw him by chance (standing abandoned in the rain) and he lets her share a corrugated iron shelter. It's a touching scene without too much sugar. And chance is the theme of the film. How does a Slumdog like Jemal guess the answers to general knowledge questions that could baffle the educated? That's what everybody wants to know.

Few Western directors have managed to embrace India so convincingly. Colours become sanitised, dirt becomes exotic. Boyle leaves us in no doubt as to the degradation, but makes it palatable through daring cinematography. This is no work of realism such as that of Satyajit Ray. Apart from a joyful closing credits scene, neither is it Bollywood. And although I thoroughly enjoyed it, I can't help feeling that some critics have gone overboard in estimating it to be more than the sum of its parts. As if Mamma Mia! could become art-house if it only had had one more ancient artefact. The film has nothing very deep to say. It is entertainment, pure and simple. Boyle's hodgepodge talents have been brought together for once in a recipe that any professional chef should be very proud of. It might even be his best film since Trainspotting, but it is heralds no new frontiers. A rounded display of talent that holds its own against the best in the Hollywood tradition. I would hate to think that the future of British film-making is in India, but I'm pleased Danny Boyle has firmly found his wings again. And I was also very pleased to see one of the stars of the outstanding TV series, Skins, conquer the lead role.

Slumdog Millionaire is a bag of very colourful tricks. The end result is great entertainment. It would be more remarkable if, in a later film, we were to see these stirring skills used for real comment on the human condition (for instance) and take us off the popcorn ride. When will the real Danny Boyle stand up? Near the Taj Mahal, I once looked down and saw boys pretending to levitate a corpse. They wanted tourists to throw money down to them (with a cut, no doubt, for the boy beneath the stretcher). It was all good fun. But made me wonder when the real fakir would appear.

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Danny Boyle cleans up at the 11th British Independent Film Awards. Could Slumdog Millionaire win him an Oscar?

After Trainspotting and zombies, a teaboy millionaire is tipped to win Boyle an Oscar: Happy-Go-Lucky and Hunger are big winners at independent film awards

In Bruges Best screenplay

Slumdog Millionaire Best film, best director, most promising newcomer

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Best actress

An uplifting yet grimly realistic tale of a young chai-wallah scraping a life out of poverty was last night being talked of as an Oscar contender after it took three awards at the British independent film awards (BIFAs).

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, the story of a Mumbai teenage boy who astounds all around him by doing well on the Indian Who Wants To Be a Millionaire quiz show, won best film, best director and best newcomer for its British lead.

In a night when honours were spread about, there were also three wins for Hunger, Steve McQueen's unflinching portrait of Bobby Sands and the hunger strikes; two for Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky; and one for In Bruges, Martin McDonagh's comedy about two Irish assassins sent to Belgium.

But Boyle was the talk of the night. The former artistic director of the Royal Court theatre is already on many pundits' Oscar prediction lists after a film career which has seen him happily flip genres: from Edinburgh heroin addicts in Trainspotting to Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach to zombies in 28 Days Later.

Last night he was named best director at the BIFAs and Slumdog Millionaire was best film. The film's young lead, Harrow-born Dev Patel - best known to British audiences as Anwar in E4's Skins - won best newcomer.

Slumdog Millionaire, written by The Full Monty's Simon Beaufoy, tells the story of a Mumbai street child. As he does well on the quiz show, flashbacks chronicle his life, the realities of which Boyle does not flinch from showing.

Boyle's film, a third of which is spoken in Hindi, opens in the UK on January 9 but has already gone down well on the festival circuit and opened to fantastic reviews in the US.

A Rolling Stone critic said: "What I feel for this movie isn't just admiration, it's mad love."

USA Today was similarly won over: "The beautifully rendered and energetic tale celebrates resilience, the power of knowledge and the vitality of human experience. Horrifying, humorous and life-affirming, it is, above all, unforgettable." The Los Angeles Times declared it "the best old-fashioned audience picture of the year".

The Turner prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, who represents the UK at next year's Venice Biennale, won the best debut director award for Hunger and the film's cinematographer Sean Bobbit, won best technical achievement. Leading man Michael Fassbender won best actor for his astonishing - not least in the 33lbs of weight he had to lose - performance as Sands.

Hunger is not a film for a cheery romantic night out. It shows the reality of the dirty protests in the Maze prison in stomach-churning detail. Nothing from the Sands story is stepped away from: the brutality, the torture and the alarming effects starvation has on a man's body.

At the other end of the movie spectrum, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, which follows a relentlessly cheerful London teacher called Poppy, won two acting awards. Eddie Marsan won best supporting actor for his role as the crazed racist driving instructor, and Alexis Zegerman won best supporting actress as Poppy's best mate, Zoe.

The well-fancied In Bruges, featuring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as a pair of chalk-and-cheese killers sent by their psychotic boss (Ralph Fiennes) to Bruges, came away with the best screenplay award for its writer and director Martin McDonagh. It was the playwright's film debut.

Vera Farmiga won best actress for her role in concentration camp drama The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas, while the Israeli animation Waltz With Bashir won best foreign film.

At the ceremony in Old Billingsgate Market, London, special awards were also given out. The actor David Thewlis was rewarded for his outstanding contribution to British film, while Michael Sheen - best known for being able to pass himself off as Kenneth Williams, Tony Blair and David Frost - was given the Variety award.

It was the 11th BIFA ceremony, with the awards seeming to grow in stature each year. Co-directors Johanna von Fischer and Tessa Collinson, said: "It's been another stellar year for independent film in Britain, as represented by the diverse spread of nominations across the board.

Source: The Guardian

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Danny Boyle would like to direct 28 Months Later

A few weeks ago it was rumoured that Paul Andrew Williams was down to direct the next not a zombie film featuring the Rage virus. Now scifi.com have news that Danny Boyle, the director of 28 Days Later and of the upcoming Slumdog Millionaire might be interested in directing 28 Months Later. At a group interview in Beverly Hills, Boyle explained that he already had an idea for the third movie:

I’ve got an idea for it, so I can’t really tell you any more than that at the moment, but hopefully that might happen.

Although scripting on the third film has not yet begun, Boyle said he would potentially be interested in directing the film

I’d certainly like to…I feel the idea is quite a strong idea, and it could well involve directing it. Yeah, absolutely.

All very vague and is still at a very early stage so this may not happen. What do you think of the 28 series of films so far? Would you want to see Danny Boyle direct the next one? What could the plot me 28 months later in that World?

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