Danny Boyle was evidently very satisfied with the job Fox Searchlight and Pathe Pictures did distributing “Slumdog Millionaire.” The Oscar-winning director has just signed a 3-year exclusive with the two companies that should take care of any funding issues he has for films he makes during that period. Boyle has not yet announced what his next project will be, but he appears to be eying an adaptation of Suketu Mehta’s book “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,” a book he used as a resource during “Slumdog.”

Under the deal, Searchlight will distribute Boyle’s films in the U.S. some other territories, while Pathe will distribute in the U.K., France, Ireland and Switzerland, according to Variety. Read more…

Danny Boyle may not be directing a remake of the Korean film “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance” or the un-produced script “Texas Killing Fields,” but he may turn his attention back to Mumbai following the success of his Oscar winner “Slumdog Millionaire.” Boyle now owns the film rights to Suketu Mehta’s “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,” a book of essays on Mumbai life, also a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Boyle purchased the rights in May for an undisclosed sum, according to The Wall Street Journal. Choosing to direct “Maximum City” next could bring Boyle full circle after having used the book as a resource while he was making “Slumdog.” Read more…

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle may hold Asian cinema in high esteem, but that doesn’t mean a hotly rumored remake of Chan-wook Park’s “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance” is next in line for him to direct. In fact, it doesn’t sound like the film was ever in line at all.

“I’ve seen the movie. I’ve seen [Park's] ‘Oldboy’ and ‘Lady Vengeance,’” the “Slumdog Millionaire” director told MTV News in an exclusive interview outside this year’s Oscars. “But no I was never going to do that. I don’t know where that story came from.”

The original Korean film in question, “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance,” follows a falsely accused young woman after she is incarcerated for murder, only to be released and sent on a mission of revenge against the people who framed her. Read more…

Now that Danny Boyle is an Oscar winner for his work on “Slumdog Millionaire,” it seems everybody is wondering: just what in the heck is the famed director going to do next? Don’t worry. Danny Boyle himself is wondering the exact same thing.

“I don’t know actually. I was involved in an animated film. I was going to make an animated film, but it’s all sort of fallen apart for me, so I don’t have anything. I tend to do one thing at a time,” Boyle told MTV News. “I wish I knew.”

Boyle had previously been attached to an adaptation of “Solomon Grundy,” which he revealed was shelved temporarily due to perceived similarities with “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. There’s also the slight chance he might return to the director’s chair for the second sequel to his 2002 hit “28 Days Later.” Read more…

It was glitz and glam and a whole lot of smiles last Thursday in Mumbai, as “Slumdog Millionaire” held its official Indian premiere. The celebrated film — shot with Indian talent and scored by famed Indian composer A.R. Rahman – saw some of Bollywood’s biggest stars turning out for the festivities. MTV India was there for it all, chatting up folks on the red carpet and catching director Danny Boyle’s remarks to the excited crowd. Check it out below.

Contributed by Akshay Bhansali

By late Sunday afternoon, the New York Giants were out of the playoff race, but I had to move on. I had another team to route for, this time at the Golden Globes.

Team Slumdog’ is proud: The success of “Slumdog Millionaire,” has virtually the entire Desi (a.k.a. South Asian) population on the planet energized. What was the last film with Indian subject matter to win an Oscar, “Ghandi”? “Water” and “Lagaan” came close. Heck, an Indian film star had still never presented an award at a major U.S. award show before! Read more…

By Akshay Bhansali

The soundtrack for Fox Searchlight’s “Slumdog Millionaire” is one of eight movie scores Indian producer/ composer A.R. Rahman put together in 2008 — and he’s got several more in the pipeline. And while we’re talking numbers, check this out: He’s worked on more than 100 soundtracks since he started in ‘91, with about 60 percent of those films being Bollywood blockbusters. Some estimate his total album sales are in the vicinity of 115 million records — can Hollywood super-scorers Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman say that?

While the bulk of the film work by the “Mozart of Madras” has been in Indian cinema, Rahman recently worked on “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” and of course “Slumdog Millionaire,” Fox Searchlight’s sleeper hit. For “Slumdog,” Rahman cut electro-Hindi-hop tunes with the help of “Paper Planes” singer/ fellow Tamilian M.I.A. to match Danny Boyle’s Mumbai-set love story. Check out the video for more about this Bollywood superstar!

NEW YORK — Fox Searchlight Pictures threw the first big movie-biz holiday party of the season on Wednesday night, in the Library of the Hudson Hotel. (It’s a “library” with a bar, a billiard table and giant framed cow portraits thick on the walls.) The company had much to be festive about, two of its latest features being the focus of much, as they say, “Oscar buzz.”

Director Danny Boyle was on hand to absorb back pats and congratulatory chatter for “Slumdog Millionaire,” his quasi-Bollywood love story/adventure movie, which was shot in Mumbai and features, among several other things, one of the year’s great soundtracks (by famed Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman). Also in attendance was the film’s cinematographer, Anthony Dod Mantle, a madly affable Englishman, who attempted to explain the special camera he’d invented for the picture — a sort of mini-Steadicam rig, it sounded like, amid the din — and expressed his great love of India, a country where he’s spent a considerable amount of time. Mumbai, especially, he said, is an extraordinarily crowded place (”You open up a cupboard and a family of fifteen comes tumbling out”), and it’s a challenge to shoot in, but he’d go back in a minute. Not right this minute, though. First he has to hook up for a new picture with his longtime colleague, the Danish curmudgeon/director Lars Von Trier. Read more…

By Rodrigo Perez

Danny Boyle’s crowd-pleasing “Slumdog Millionaire” is taking the indie-movie world by storm, and the kinetic and propulsive film is garnering so much buzz (it was the toast of the Telluride and Toronto film festivals) that there’s talk its slow roll-out plan could hit on a mass level, even with Oscar.

A big part of the reason why is the pulsating and thrilling music by Indian composer A.R. Rahman, who collaborated with Sri Lankan Rapper M.I.A. on the original track, “O… Saya.” The soundtrack CD comes out tomorrow via M.I.A.’s new Interscope imprint N.E.E.T., and it also features M.I.A’s big summer hit, “Paper Planes” that became a hit because of the “Pineapple Express” trailer.

Some of you might think that Boyle jacked ‘Planes’ from the ‘Pineapple’ trailer, but Boyle’s a huge M.I.A fan and the track was a crucial one he had in mind from minute one. “I actually travelled to India with that song with me, it was a key song,” Boyle told MTV News. “And originally it was featured very early on in the film, but then we moved it to the halfway mark, and then the song was used in ‘Pineapple Express’,” he groaned. “What can you do?” Read more…

Remember last year, when director Danny Boyle told MTV News that he was still very high on eventually filming “Porno,” the follow-up to his break-out hit “Trainspotting”? Turns out, Boyle said, the actors are now just as excited.

Now if they’d just lay off the goddarned moisturizer.

“Interestingly, they are about to put out yet another DVD of ‘Trainspotting,’ another edition, like they do, and they got all the actors together to do interviews for it and they all turned up, so I think they’re all starting to show a little appetite for it, for doing it again, and we’ve tickled them with this idea that it’s the same actors playing the same parts in the same city, but it’s got this fifteen year gap,” Boyle said of the long-gestating project. Read more…