`Slumdog` grosses ten times production cost; rakes in 800 cr!

London, Feb 24: Economically, Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is going places where few Bollywood-connect movies ever dreamt of going. With an incredible BO retun, the profits are hitting the sky. Having already raked in more than ten times its production cost, the film is a goldmine! It is likely to hit the 170-million-pound mark in world-wide ticket sales, which is nearly 20 times the amount it cost to make, following the Oscar sweep, it has been predicted.

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While foreign and subtitled films often struggle to make any inroads in American film market, the critically acclaimed film about an 18-year-old slum boy from rags to riches is expected to break records at the box office after its first nationwide release. Slumdog opened in the US last November in just ten cinemas, but the Oscar sweep has caught the public's imagination and it will now get full nationwide release in the world's most lucrative film market.

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