Slumdog millionnaire

Production

Budget: 15 million

Director: Danny Boyle

Producer: Christian Colson

Writer: Simon Beaufoy

Stars: Dev Patel, Frieda Pinto

Edited by: Chris Dickens

Studio: Film four

Distribution

Pathe Pictures distributed this film, which is a UK box office. Fox searchlight pictures and Waner bros. pictures also distributed it and they are both US box office. The release date for this film in the UK was 9^th January 2009 and in the US 12^th November 2008. The film was released on DVD and blue- ray on 1 June, in the UK. In North America it was released in 10 original theatres, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on 31 March 2009.

Consumption

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.