According to indieWIRE's Box Office Coverage by Brian Brooks, Freida Pinto and Dev Patel, despite being relatively unknown to American audiences, did something right. The production's money people are certainly happy.Fox Searchlight's "Slumdog Millionaire" cruised on up the iW BOT over the weekend, opening in limited release with a stellar $36,000 average...
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Telluride and Toronto '08 debuter "Slumdog Millionaire" raked in the cash in its opening weekend, taking in $360,018 from only ten locations. Since opening Wednesday, the film directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan has cumed over $427,000.
"Wow, we were thrilled, [the film] passed out expectations," said Fox Searchlight's Senior Vice President of Distribution, Sheila DeLoach to indieWIRE Monday evening
This looks like a film well worth seeing.
