It’s 15 years since SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE collected 8 Academy Awards and nearly as many BAFTAs and made a movie star (kinda…) of Dev Patel (now, imo, one of our most promising filmmakers having written and directed MONKEY, influenced in pace and style by none other than Danny Boyle, possibly?). It is a wonderful film, but not everyone saw its multiple awards-gathering future entirely clearly: Warner Bros had no idea what to do with it and off-loaded it to Fox Searchlight, missing out on all that sought-after silverware.
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It’s 15 years since SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE collected 8 Academy Awards and nearly as many BAFTAs and made a movie star (kinda…) of Dev Patel (now, imo, one of our most promising filmmakers having written and directed MONKEY, influenced in pace and style by none other than Danny Boyle, possibly?). It is a wonderful film, but not everyone saw its multiple awards-gathering future entirely clearly: Warner Bros had no idea what to do with it and off-loaded it to Fox Searchlight, missing out on all that sought-after silverware.