Slumdog Statists and Research

Amazon gave the film 4 out of 5, by 385 customer reviews, 195 of those gave the film 5 stars.
One of their customers said 'It's fresh, it's magical and horrific.'

IMDB gave the film 8.4/10.

'Feel good film of the decade, 5 stars' News of the World

'An Exhilirating ride' The Independent

'Brilliant in many different ways' Daily Mail

Box Office

'The film was released in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2009, and opened at #2 at the UK box office. The film reached #1 in its second weekend and set a UK box office record, as the film's takings increased by 47%. This is the "biggest ever increase for a UK saturation release," breaking "the record previously held by Billy Elliot's 13%." This record-breaking "ticket surge" in the second weekend came after Slumdog Millionaire won four Golden Globes and received eleven BAFTA nominations. The film grossed £6.1 million in its first eleven days of release in the UK. The takings increased by another 7% the following weekend, bringing the film's gross up to £10.24 million for its first seventeen days in the UK, and up to £14.2 million in its third week'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire#Release_and_box_office_performance


Controversial Issues

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/24/oscars-india-slumdog-millionaire-ian-jack
http://orvillelloyddouglas.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/did-director-danny-boyle-exploit-the-child-actors-in-the-film-slumdog-millionaire/

Firstly: Some Indians are offended by to the term “slum dog”. Some Indians feel the movie is exploiting the poor.

Secondly: Many media forms worldwide have accused Danny Boyle as exploiting the young Indian actors in the movie. According to these news reports the parents of child actors Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail claim their children weren't compensated properly. After alligations and controversy over the child slum actors and actresses, Danny Boyle himself released a statement saying that 'the money earned from this film would be used for helping and reforming the life of various Slum children in Mumbai'

Production issues & British Film industry issues

Apart from all the success recently, Channel Four still has a few problems. Firstly, channel four will always have a problem with competing with the cinema space with multinational production/film companies. Secondly the film 'Charlotte Gray' - a film that channel four gambled £5.7 million (the most expensive film channel four has ever made) flopped dramatically. It is well known that this flop has made huge financial difficulties for film four, however the financial problems weren't the only problem left by it. In 'Slumdog Millionaire' the production team came across problems with the location of India, they were worried that the filming would disrupt the normal living situation, so they had to use hand-held cameras and spend more time editing to get the final product.