The latest film from 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle won three prizes at the British Independent Film Awards on Sunday and has already been gaining box office prestige in the United States.
Slumdog Millionaire is the exhilarating story of a poor 18 year-old Indian boy, played by Dev Patel, who has a chance of winning on the gameshow Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? and reuniting with his true love.
Slumdog won in the Best British independent film, Best Director and Most Promising Newcomer categories at the festival.
Stateside, the film raked in an impressive $350,434 million during its opening weekend in just 10 theaters, making it the year’s top earner per theater, and continues to perform well as it expands to 75 theaters on Friday and 600 by Dec. 19.
Another added attraction to the film is the soundtrack which features music by A.R. Rahman, who was dubbed the “Mozart of Madras” by Time magazine, and M.I.A.’s hit single Paper Planes.
It seems movie execs are still debating whether teen cutie Taylor Lautner will be returning for the Twilight sequel New Moon as Jacob Black, according to the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, which features newly minted heartthrob Robert Pattinson on its cover.
While director Catherine Hardwicke initially alluded that Lautner will be joining stars Pattinson (who plays Edward Cullen) and Kristen Stewart (who plays Bella Swan) in the sequel, the studio hasn’t officially signed the teen star.
”We are definitely talking and thinking about it right now,” Summit’s president of production told EW. ”Taylor’s fantastic as Jacob in Twilight. I think when we get closer to shooting, the director is going to look at everyone as if they are brand-new to the role.”
The 1940 comic book The Spirit has been made into a film that promises to give Iron Mana run for its superhero money.
Directed by Frank Miller and featuring the stunning visual technology utilized in his previous films 300 and Sin City, Spirit stars Samuel Jackson as villain The Octopus and Eva Mendes, Paz Vega and Scarlett Johansson among the many femme fatales.
Conspicuosly missing, and thankfully so, is the Spirit’s sidekick Ebony White, a racist African American stereotype.
Here is the second installment of Blindie’s on-going quest to uncover the racial identity of some of Hollywood’s multi-racial celebrities.
Wentworth Miller: The Prison Break star played a young Anthony Hopkins trying to hide his African American heritage in 2003′s The Human Stain and in real life, Miller’s racial make-up reads like a laundry list of races and includes African American, Jamaican, German, Jewish, Lebanese, and Syrian, just to name a few.
Rosario Dawson: the Seven Pounds star has a mother of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban background and a father of Irish and Native American heritage.
Taylor Lautner: the teen star plays Quileute tribe member Jacob Black in the vampire flick Twilight and lays claim to French, Dutch and German as well as Native American ancestry in real life.
Zoe Saldana: the Star Trek beauty was born in New Jersey and has a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father.
Corbin Bleu: the High School Musical triple threat has a mother of Italian heritage and a father of Jamaican ancestry.
Cash Warren: the Yale University grad is married to Jessica Alba and is the son of the African American actor of the 1980s hit series Hill Street Blues Michael Warren.
As official Twilighters, Blindie was concerned whether 16-year-old cutie Taylor Lautner would return for the sequel New Moon as faithful werewolf Jacob Black–and now director Catherine Hardwicke finally confirms that he will be!
“I’ve got this to say about Taylor,” Hardwicke confesses to USA Today. “He told me the other day that he had gained 14 pounds since I last saw him. He’s only 16. I think he’s chanting to make himself grow.”
In the sequel, slated for 2010 (God! That’s a long time from now!), Jacob jumps centerstage as he grows closer to human heroine Bella (Kristen Stewart) who deals with the sudden absence of brooding vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson).
As always, Blindie will bring you any upcoming developments in the “Twilight Saga.”
Ga Ga-licious model Jourdan Dunn was crowned Model Of The Year at the British Fashion Awards last night.
“Oh my God. I’m crying!” Dunn, who wore a cream mini by Stella McCartney, said during her acceptance speech which the Daily Mail said was “a high point of a rather lacklustre night.”
“I don’t want to cry,” the 19-year-old British beauty said. “This is really the icing on the cake for me; I want to thank my agency, Storm, for being a second family to me, and … oh my God, I’m really sounding like such a dumb model, and that really isn’t like me. Anyway, thank you so much.”
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Wentworth Miller: The Prison Break star played a young Anthony Hopkins trying to hide his African American heritage in 2003′s The Human Stain and in real life, Miller’s racial make-up reads like a laundry list of races and includes African American, Jamaican, German, Jewish, Lebanese, and Syrian, just to name a few.
Rosario Dawson: the 
Taylor Lautner: the teen star plays Quileute tribe member Jacob Black in the vampire flick 
Zoe Saldana: the 
Corbin Bleu: the ![](http://blindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/cash_warren.jpg "Actress Jessica Alba and Cash Warren arrive at \")
Cash Warren: the Yale University grad is married to Jessica Alba and is the son of the African American actor of the 1980s hit series Hill Street Blues Michael Warren.
