Slumdog Millionaire Statistics

Slumdog Millionaire - Statistics
Scripting	Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (British) wrote Slumdog Millionaire based on the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup.
Directors and Producers	Danny Boyle (British - Danny Boyle has built up a reputation for highly stylised cinematography and fast cutting.), Loveleen Tandan Anthony Dod Mantle (Danish), DoP on Slumdog was with Boyle when he experimented with early digital cameras on UK television films in 2001 British director (Danny Boyle), producer (Christian Colson), screenwriter (Simon Beaufoy)
Music	A.R. Rahman (Indian) – soundtrack Sound Recordist - Resul Pookutty Remix of Jai-Ho with the Pussycat Dolls
Casting	Casting in Mumbai One UK actor Stars of Bollywood and parallel cinema Non-professional actors cast in India
Crew	Almost entirely Indian cast with the lead being English star Dev Patel Indian Film Crew with UK Heads Shot in India, editing in the UK
Awards Won
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Finances	Warner Searchlight Pictures (USA) - $5 Million offered
Production Companies	Celador Productions – (Who Wants to be a Millionaire) Film4 Productions -
Distribution	Originally to be distributed in North America by Warner Independent Pictures. Jointly distributed by Fox Searchlight and Warner Bros -      Fox Searchlight part of Fox who are in turn owned by Newscorp -      Fox has recently signed a deal with Star Studios to become Fox Star United Kingdom: Pathe Pictures - A British/French distributor in the UK and France An Indian subsidiary of a Hollywood studio as distributor in India Warner Bros Icon Pictures – Distributor in Australia (owns by Fox Searchlight) Prokino Filmverleih GmbH (German Distributos) Icon Entertainment International, Lucky Red, Myndform, 20th Century Fox International, Gulf Film, Celador Films, Distribution Company, Acme Film, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Forum Film (Bulgaria), Volga, Filmladen GmbH, Bontonfilm, FS Film Oy, Silverbird Cinemas, Svensk Filmindustri Norway, Monopole Pathe Films AG
Revenues	US $100 million UK $37 million After these, the biggest markets have been France, Australia, Italy, Spain India (Hindi) $2.6 million India (English) $3.4 million (Note that the film has not been a big hit in Hindi markets, but has done very well in English language markets (don’t forget it is still a third Hindi in the English prints). Since tickets for Hindi halls are generally likely to be lower priced than the English language screens, it still means a sizeable audience of around 8-10 million Indians)
Languages	Filmed in English and Hindi
Subtitles	Released in English and Hindi in India and to NRI
Tropes	The rags-to-riches, underdog theme underlying the film was also a recurring theme in classic Bollywood movies from the 1950s through to the 1980s Fantasy sequences Montage sequence where "the brothers jump off a train and suddenly they are seven years older" Canted Angle Shots
Influences on	Salim Javed Salaam Bombay Satya (1998) (screenplay co-written by Saurabh Shukla, who plays Constable Srinivas in Slumdog Millionaire) Company Black Friday (2004) (adapted from S. Hussein Zaidi's book of the same name about the 1993 Bombay bombings) – Chase scene Deewaar (1975), which Boyle described as being "absolutely key to Indian cinema", is a crime film based on the Bombay gangster Haji Mastan, portrayed by Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, whose autograph Jamal seeks at the beginning of Slumdog Millionaire.