Danny Boyle

With London's 2012 Summer Olympic Games just six months away, opening ceremonies artistic director Danny Boyle — the cinematic auteur behind Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire — has peeled back the curtain. In a videotaped interview posted to the ...  

He is best known for directing Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting, one of the most popular films of the 90s. But British film-maker Danny Boyle is adding another string to his bow, as the artistic director of the London 2012 Olympic ...  

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(TOI Photo) LONDON: Danny Boyle, the maker of Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire', will direct a £29 million opening ceremony extravaganza of the London Olympic Games in July. Modern, multi-cultural Britain will feature in the display with ...  

There's a nod to Shakespeare, a big bell and ... nurses? Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle offered a sneak peek of his vision for the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, revealing Friday that he'll ring a massive bell to start ...  

THE London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony should make everyone feel like it is “the people's Games”, according to artistic director Danny Boyle. Danny, from Radcliffe, is hoping that everyone inside London's 80,000-seater showpiece Olympic Stadium and ...  

The "Slumdog Millionaire" director outlined his vision of the ceremony ... Boyle bounced up from his chair at the presentation, and introduced a "behind the scenes" film about the ceremony that featured shots of trapeze artists and dancers ...  

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle will base his opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, according to the London Daily Mail. The ceremony, entitled "Isle of Wonders," is also inspired by the industrial past of ...  

Hollywood director Danny Boyle revealed today that the £27million Olympics opening ceremony will have a Shakespearean theme. The event - titled Isle of Wonder - will involve hundreds of NHS nurses and schoolchildren. He has ordered a 27-ton bell to ring ...  

Danny Boyle is taking inspiration from famed playwright William Shakespeare ... Boyle has also commissioned Europe's largest ringing bell, which will be inscribed with The Tempest quote, "Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises", and will sound at ...  

Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle, the artistic director for the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony in London, revealed Friday that the ceremony will be a Shakespeare-inspired celebration of British culture.  

For the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, movie director Danny Boyle said he’s aiming for intimacy rather than spectacle. “We wanted to make the feel of the opening ceremony … intimate and personal,” he said in an interview today.  

LONDON (AP) -- Director Danny Boyle offered a sneak peak of 2012 London opening ceremony that would include the ringing of a massive bell and one of the U.K.'s most maligned institutions, the National Health Service. Boyle told reporters Friday at an event marking six months until the games that the opening ceremony was "an enormous bloody thing." Boyle said that he was aware of the pressures to produce the first Summer Games ceremony since...  

The theme of the opening ceremony of the London Olympics will be "Isles of Wonder", film director Danny Boyle, who is the ceremony's artistic director, revealed on Friday. Boyle, who directed the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire", told ...  

SHAKESPEARE will be taking centre stage at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics this summer. Film director Danny Boyle - who has been set what he describes as the 'bloody enormous' task of creating the £27 million showpiece - has turned to one of ...