Official theatrical trailer
Synopsis
Slumdog Millionaire is a British film which accounts the story of an orphaned teenager Jamal Milak (Dev Patel) from the Dhavari slums of Mumbai in India, who makes an appearance on his country’s version of the popular television game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Yet he’s speculated to have cheated due to his excellent performance. Hence he is arrested by police, yet then tells his personal love story of a girl he had extraordinary adventures with, which helped him know the correct answers in the game show.
Theatrical release poster
Production
- The budget for the production of Slumdog Millionaire was estimated to be at approximately £9.2 million
- Film4 Productions provided finance for the film, with Pathe Productions and Celador Films co-producing
- Film4 Productions have produced other popular British films like Trainspotting (1996) and Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Jamal (Dev Patel) and Latika (Freida Pinto)
Distribution
- The main theatrical distributor for the film is Fox Searchlight Pictures. Many other companies distributed the film, including Lucky Red, Gulf Film and 20th Century Fox International.
- Slumdog Millionaire was distributed in several countries world-wide, including UK, USA, France, Turkey, Finland, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Romania, Chile, Czech Republic, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, India, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Russia, Philippines, Iceland, Poland and Scandinavia.
‘Jai Ho’, from the movie soundtrack
Exhibition
- Official box office takings – $377,910,544
- I would’ve expected to see Slumdog Millionaire shown at my local cinema in Bracknell, as it was a popular and highly-successful film amongst a variety of audiences.
The cast of "Slumdog Millionaire"
Horizontal and vertical intergration
- Fox Searchlight Pictures is a subsidary cinema company of Fox Filmed Entertainment and 20th Century Fox. Its speciality is distrubuting smaller, independent, British films.
stuartallenmedia 
October 10, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Sound research here, well done. Effective use of images and media in your post as well. Review this post as part of your revision for the January Media exam.
Aim to create more interactive posts – look up the post on the AS blog to give you more ideas. Using the creative tools will gain you more marks for the Media coursework.
November 17, 2011 at 9:48 am
I think you have done a very good job of explaining how the film “Slumdog Millionaire” was made and how the distribution and exhibition surrounded it. You clearly have a good understanding of the film industry. Also I loved the use of video and images, it made the blog more interactive and appealing to the eye. Well done.